Guests can opt for private back-room readings of their favorite verse.
Actor, dancer and producer Melinda Cary is bringing New York’s Poetry Brothel concept to the RiNo Art District. Sex sells T-shirts, cars and beer. It lights up our brains and slides into every pocket of our culture. But can it sell poetry?on Sunday, Oct. 13.
“Brothels, since the dawn of time, have been places where you can be sequestered from all of your responsibilities and expectations, and let your freaky nature shine through,” Cary said. “So it’s fun to do this in a format where it’s less about our bodies and more about our spirits.When people enter the Poetry Brothel they’ll be surrounded by a cabaret format that mixes readings, burlesque, music, vaudeville, circus, performance art, and mysticism, Cary said.
Cary chose her poets based on their writing quality as well as their comfort with the overall idea. The cast includes erotic writers, but also a historian and a ghost hunter. Of course, there will still be the sexy and revealing outfits, the pay-to-perform format where people get to pick their poet, the group salon area, and the requisite drinking and carousing.
Actor, dancer and producer Melinda Cary is bringing New York’s Poetry Brothel concept to the RiNo Art District. , a drinks-and-authors night at the hip Fort Greene bar in Globeville, was designed to give the city “a sexy literary scene.” It immediately drew dozens of people looking for a creative, thoughtful monthly experience that also happens to double as nightlife (the next one is Oct. 30; see
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