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| User: | poetryslam (54555)  The Wussy Boy Chronicles!
Caught Somewhere Between GUY and GAY |
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| Name: | Big Poppa E | |||||
| Website: | www.bigpoppae.com | |||||
| Location: | Austin, Texas, United States | |||||
| Birthdate: | 05-11 | |||||
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| Bio: |  Big Poppa E is a spoken word artist and three-time HBO Def Poet who melds rhythmic verse, stand-up comedy, and dramatic monologue into explosive works that skewer pop culture, politics, and the pain and beauty of relationships. His musings have led to appearances on BET’s The Way We Do It sketch comedy series, National Public Radio, and CBS’s 60 Minutes (although, truth be told, he was only on for about three seconds... but still...) Recently, his viral video Why I Got Fired From Apple Computer was viewed over a million times on sites across the Internet, including YouTube and Google Video, garnering links from hundreds of websites. Big Poppa E burst onto the scene as a member of the ‘99 San Francisco Poetry Slam Team, co-champions of the ‘99 National Poetry Slam in Chicago and the only undefeated team out of 48 that year. The piece he performed on the finals stage — ¡The Wussy Boy Manifesto! — has since become a rallying cry for outcasts, dorks, dweebs, and feebs everywhere, leading Ms. Magazine to proclaim him “an icon for effeminate males” and The Los Angeles Times to declare him “the leader of the new Wussy Boy movement.” The piece is now one of the most popular slam works performed by high school and college speech competitors across the country. Big Poppa E has toured relentlessly on the spoken word highway since 2000, when he did 65 gigs across 27 states in just under four months. In the summer of 2003 alone, he logged over 21,000 miles on his ‘99 Ford Windstar mini-van, which has since been retired after 200,000 miles. He has headlined at more than 70 universities and colleges and performed 150+ poetry slam features in 40 states (including Hawaii and Alaska). Along the way, his tours have generated over a hundred stories in newspapers and magazines in the US, Canada, England, and Australia, including such publications as: The New York Times; The Washington Post; The Ottowa Citizen; The London Daily Express; The Sydney Morning Herald; Bust Magazine; Poets and Writers; and The Utne Reader. Big Poppa E is the author of six books of poetry, two collections of haiku, two CDs, two DVDs, and a bunch of T-shirts and stickers. He has been published in Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry on Manic D Press, and his essay Slam Your Way Across America was included in the Poets and Writers magazine collection The Practical Writer: From Inspiration to Publication. He has two tuxedo kitties named Aretha and Thelonious. He currently calls Austin, Texas, his home and serves as DJ Hot Wings every week at the Austin Poetry Slam. To assist Big Poppa E in his quest to stay away from cubicle forever and devote his life to the writing and performing of poetry, please consider a quick and painless donation to the cause: Or you can consider purchasing a lovely BPE T-Shirt. Just click on the one you like!    Or you can even by his latest book called "Big Poppa E's Greatest Hits." It's 128 pages of the best road-tested slam poetry culled from 10 years of touring across these United States. It's a real book, too, with a thick glossy cover, a perfect spine, an ISBN #, and a UPC bar code. Just click on the graphic below to be taken to the lulu.com store where you can purchase it:  For more BPE stuff online, check out: BPE's New Book! Big Poppa E's Official Website BPE's MySpace Page BPE's Wikipedia Page BPE's Flickr Page | |||||
| Memories: | 336 entries | |||||
| Pictures: | over 40 public | |||||
| Interests: | 150: a confederacy of dunces, aimee mann, allen ginsburg, amnesty international, amélie, ani difranco, aretha franklin, austin, barbara kruger, bauhaus, beastie boys, beth orton, big poppa e, bill hicks, billie holliday, bjork, built to spill, bust magazine, cat power, catcher in the rye, charlie parker, chico, cinema paradiso, coldplay, cometbus, david bowie, david byrne, david fincher, david sedaris, deathcab for cutie, devo, douglas coupland, ed ruscha, ella fitzgerald, elliott smith, environmentalism, esthero, etheridge knight, feminism, fight club, fiona apple, foetus, grandaddy, haiku, harold and maude, harry potter, high fidelity, hooverphonic, hope davis, hypnophobia, jack kerouac, james brown, jane siberry, jeff buckley, jenny holzer, joanna newsom, joel and ethan coen, john coltrane, john cusack, john lennon, kate bush, kurt vonnegut, lamb, langston hughes, leonard peltier, louis armstrong, ma vie en rose, mail, mark rothko, marvin gaye, maxine hong kingston, memento, miles davis, min scorcese, modest mouse, moleskine notebooks, morcheeba, moulin rouge, mumia abu jamal, myst, national public radio, next stop wonderland, nick drake, nick hornsby, nine inch nails, ninja tunes, nirvana, noah taylor, otis redding, p.j. harvey, paul thomas anderson, peter gabriel, petty booka, pinback, poetry slams, portishead, possum dixon, pretty in pink, r.e.m., radiohead, regina spektor, richard ashcroft, richard pryor, riot grrls, run lola run, salvador dali, sarah polley, saul williams, senryu, shuggie otis, six feet under, skinny puppy, son volt, stanley kubrick, steely dan, stereolab, stevie wonder, sufjan stevens, supreme beings of leisure, sushi, sylvia plath, tahiti 80, talking heads, terry gilliam, the beatles, the breakfast club, the innocence mission, the kinks, the police, the shins, the verve, the white stripes, thelonious monk, this american life, thrift stores, to kill a mockingbird, todd solondz, tom waits, tom wolfe, tori amos, u2, uniball gel impact pens, vetiver, vladimir nabokov, wes anderson, wilco, wilfred owen, william s. burroughs, wussy boys, zines | |||||
| Schools: | University of Texas - Austin - Austin, TX Bakersfield High School - Bakersfield, CA (1981 - 1985) California State University - Bakersfield - Bakersfield, CA (1991 - 1994) California State University - Chico - Chico, CA (1994 - 2000) | |||||
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