100,000 Poets for Change finale this Friday, Sept 30

On September 28, 2016 By nancystohlmanIn Uncategorized

September 30

I’m proud to join this AMAZING lineup with my creative partner in crime, Nick Busheff. We’ll be doing our Madam Velvet’s Cabaret of Oddities sideshow act with full clown makeup one last time!

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ENGLEWOOD

100,000 Poets for Change

6:30-10:30

Hampden Hall

Admission $10

More info here

1000 Englewood Pkwy, Englewood

The Grand Finalé of “Clan Between the Wor]l[ds” (co-hosted by Michael Annis and Mila Popovich) — Denver’s 2016 concluding celebration of the worldwide movement includes the talents, creativity, and artistic brilliance of the metro area’s finest writers and artists, plus performers from New York, North Dakota, and California. Musical sets include classical, experimental rock, improv jazz stylings, avant techno, and primitive solo drum, some accompanied by poets. Two national slam champions, a Native American shaman, a multi-award winning poet/publisher, a world class jazz poet, a queen of flash fiction, and two of the Rocky Mountain’s most profoundly gifted artists are featured, plus a high intensity video trailer, and a short talk [virtual] by progressive Congressman Dennis Kucinich.
Grand Finale performers include: Goncalo Martins
 Hawksbrother Hawkspirit
 Bobby LeFebre
 David Hinojosa & JamKeyJam
 Theo Wilson
 Felino Soriano
 Les Reed & Carolyn Reed
 Adam Roufberg
 Nancy Stohlman and Nick Busheff
 Seth
 Mila Popovich
 Molli Bernstein
 Michael Annis::AtMassFear with Mayra Lorren Delgado
 David Allen Reed
 Dascha Friedlova

“My Mother Was a Circus Clown” published in Flash: The International Short Short Story Magazine

On September 21, 2016 By nancystohlmanIn Uncategorized

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My Mother Was a Circus Clown

by Nancy Stohlman

When she kissed me goodnight she left smudges of white paint on my cheeks. When I tried to ask her a question she was inside a box—a wall left, right, above, oh my! When I came home from school she was painting pink eyebrows on her forehead. When I tried to hug her she squirted me with a rubber flower or knocked herself unconscious with a rubber sledgehammer or blew confetti out of a trumpet.

It’s because her parents never let her see live music when she was growing up, my father explained. It was against their religion or something. She vowed to become a clown if they didn’t let her see Elvis when he came through town back in ‘76.

My mother nodded, miming a tear sliding down her cheek with her gloved hand.

Read all about Flash: The International Short Short Story Magazine here

(DENVER: Watch me read this and other clown-related stories from my forthcoming book, Madam Velvet’s Cabaret of Oddities on Sept 30 at Hampden Hall, Denver, as part of the 100, 000 Poets for Change grand finale event. I will be accompanied by the genuis of composer Nick Busheff!)

Fbomb NYC on Sept 9, 2016

On September 19, 2016September 19, 2016 By nancystohlmanIn Uncategorized

I was thrilled to be able to join the kickoff of Fbomb NYC on Friday, Sept 9, hosted by Paul Beckman and featuring myself and Bud Smith. The series is a spin-off of the Denver Fbomb, a flash fiction-based series I began in 2013. The Red Room above the KGB bar in in the East Village was a wonderful location and there was a packed house! Readers included:

Read what fellow reader A.E. Weisgerber had to say about the event here as well as a great photo slideshow of all the readers:Jane Liddle, Alice Kaltman, Loren Kleinman, Paul Beckman, Gessy Alvarez, Sara Lippman, Chuck Howe, Anne Weisgerber, Jan Elman-Stout, Jolene McIlwaine.

(Host Paul Beckman (below left), featured reader Nancy Stohlman (below right)

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The readers from left to right: A.E Weisberger, (featured reader) Bud Smith, Chuck Howe, Gessy Alvarez, Jolene Mcllwaine, Jan Elman Stout, Alice Kaltman, Jane Liddle and Sara Lippman. (Not pictured Loren Kleinman.)

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