Jay Michaelson is a frequent performer who has shouted, sung, chanted, played, and read his poetic work at venues from Burning Man to CBGB, Yale University to Tmol Shilshom in Jerusalem. Generally, he performs his poems with drums and other instrumental accompaniment, creating an evening that is less a ghastly 'poetry reading' than an ecstatic, erotic, energy-charged happening. Jay does also read in more sober settings, and lectures widely on new Jewish poetry, mysticism, law, and other subjects.
A partial list of venues and performances is below. If you are interested in bringing Jay to your community, simply click here to send an email inquiry. Jay's upcoming events and workshops can be found here.
Performances:
Poetry reading, Knitting Factory, Oct. 2007
Poetry reading, Lehigh University Humanities Center, Oct. 2007
National Havurah Committee Summer Institute, Aug. 2007
Fiction reading, Kinky Jews, March 2007
Surprised By God, Zeek launch event, March 2007
The Body Divine, reading and performance for God in Your Body, Dec. 2006
Poetry reading, Zeek, JCC in Manhattan, Oct. 2006
By the Reverb of Babylon, Bowery Poetry Cafe, Sept. 2006
Boundaries and Transgressions: The New Jewish Culture, Manhattan JCC, May 2006
English Poets in Jerusalem, Tmol Shilshom, April 2006
Neurotic Visionaries and Paranoid Jews: An Evening with Zeek, Makor, April 2005
Queer Spiritual Valentines: Poetry from the GLBT Mystical Tradition, JCC of Manhattan, February 2005
The I-Thou Circus: Poetry, Performance, and Paranoia, Cornelia Street Cafe, February 2005
Performance poetry, Gay Spirit Culture summit, Garrison Institute, May 2004
Bleecker Street Songwriters, Elbow Room, September 2003
Burning Man, 2003, 2004, 2005
CBGB, 2002
Selected lectures and workshops:
Beyond Leviticus: Queer Voices in the Bible and Today, Tucson LGBT Inclusion Project, Oct. 2007
The Archaic Revival in the New Jewish Culture, Lehigh University, Oct. 2007
Queer Spirit Heroes: Allen Ginsberg and James Broughton, Easton Mountain, July 2006
Be'erot: Evenings of Meditation and Prayer, February 2004-October 2004
Embodied Judaism, weeklong class, Wexner Heritage Foundation, August 2004
Sacred Sexuality, Burning Man, August 2004
My Fair Youth, My Lord: Homoerotic Religious Poetry in the Jewish and Sufi Traditions, National Union of Jewish Lesbian/Gay Students conference, February 2004
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