Welcome to Jabberfucky. It’s a book, an upcoming reading, and a nerdy and dirty exercise that is sure to prove addictive.
Edited by Maude Spekes & Sybilia Grogan, Jabberfucky contains famous poems bawdlerized by two fans of poems and vulgarity.
We invite you to:
Buy the book (amazon, bn, St. Mark’s Bookstore, at the reading, or, soon, at Urban Outfitters)
Come to the reading at the Bowery Poetry Club on Sunday, December 7, 2008, from 2:30-3:30pm.
Jabberfuck and submit your own favorite poem to jabber AT jabberfucky DOT com. Or song lyrics. Or recipe, or Proposition 8. Send us your best jabberfucky, and we’ll post it here.
Thanks for visiting, and fucks for the support,
MS & SG
A parody of poetry anthologies, Jabberfucky and other poems is a romp of bawdlerized versions of best-loved poems. If you love word games, poetry, or vulgarity, Jabberfucky is sure to delight. Edited by Maude Spekes and Sybilia Grogan.
bios
Maude Spekes
Maude Spekes is a library and information science grad student who distills and independently bottles single-malt scotch for an undisclosed tavern in NYC. She is the author of Portrait of the Artist as a Grain of Sand: The Influence of Sufi Epic Poetry on James Joyce; and A Pint of Paltry Blood: Epictetus and the Idea of Other. She teaches workshops on 17th-century poetry, echolocation, indexing, and self-forgiveness. She can be reached at andthentheresmaude@gmail.com.
Sybilia Grogan
Sybilia Oracle of Delphi Grogan was born in Cyprus in 1970, the only child of Sir Colin and Dame Hortense Biddlebrook-Grogan, PhDs. The Grogans, authors of “Mystery Religions of the Hellenic Diaspora” and “From Eleusis to Priapis: Sexuality and Religion in the Age of Heraclitus,” were knighted by Queen Elizabeth for their lifetime service to Greco-Roman thought and archaeology as much as for all the neat statues they nicked for the British Museum. She can be reached at sybilia@aol.com.
Comments, questions, suggestions for jabberfucky events? jabber AT jabberfucky DOT com.
