b i l l y c a n c e l
billy cancel is a poet/performer & sound
/collage artist. In early 2018 billy cancel’s debut full-length collection MOCK
TROUGH RASPING CROW was released by BlazeVOX [books] & also included in
LitHub’s end of year 2017 my favorite poetry list. cancel’s poetry has been
widely published appearing in Boston Review, PEN America, Bombay Gin, Westwind
Review & 6x6 (Ugly Ducking Press) among others. His visual poetry artwork has been recently published most recently in Map
Literary, Word For/Word, Dear Sir! & Maintenant,. In September of 2017
cancel contributed 25 minutes of audio to a collaborative recording of the poem
“Flow Chart” in dedication to John Ashbery which was featured in Poetry
Foundation & is now archived at PennSound. In July 2017 cancel read as part
of the Dial-A-Poem John Giorno Marathon at Red Bull Arts New York. billy cancel
also self-publishes & distributes his chapbooks through Hidden House Press,
most recently Psycho’clock, which was released in 2016. He is a member of the
Poetry Project, attending workshops there & has read at the New Year
Marathon in 2010 & 2015.
billy also utilizes his poetry practices into multi-disciplinary &
performances contexts & with his wife Thursday Fernworthy (Lauds) he
performs as the noise-poetry duo Tidal Channel(Bronson Records 2018 and
forthcoming on Various / Artists 2019.) In Summer 2017 Tidal Channel wrote
& performed “Upon A Wooden Horse In Rode Headless Multi-“a 15 minute
noise/poetry piece for the opening & closing of the Eotechnic Sensorium
sculpture exhibition at Widow Jane Mine, Rosendale, New York. In fall 2013 cancel wrote & performed a significant role in Marianne
Vitale’s ‘The Missing Book Of Spurs’ which ran for 5 nights & was a
commissioned work presented as part of Performa13. In 2014 his video poem “you beat all round the bush for electronic crop” was used by Rutgers English lecturer Dr. Michael Leong in his course Introduction To Multi-Media Composition. In Autumn 2015, cancel performed at RECESS Gallery as part of the Poet Transmit series - a live taping & transmission of manipulated video feed curated by the experimental mobile television studio, ESP-TV. Later that year ESP-TV showed 2 of cancel & Fernworthy’s video poems as part of their broadcast at the 2015 Marfa film festival. As part of the 2016 Liverpool Provocations Art Festival cancel also contributed to ‘4 WORDS’ where a short poetic statement of his was broadcast across Lime Street Station, on Europe’s largest motion digital screen. In October 2018 cancel’s collaboration with VJ Jim Tuite “rockaBILLY whole world gone CANCELed” was included and shown as part of the 12th Druid Underground Film Festival. A B B R E V I A T E D C V
2019 PEN Poetry, July 2017 Sleet Magazine, July 2017 BlazeVOX 17, June 2017 Word for/Word, May 2017 Maintenant 11, May 2017 Pouch, May 2017 Boston Review, April 2017 The Altered Scale, April 2017 MUSHMUM, March 2017 Gambling The Aisle, February 2017 Grey Sparrow Press, February 2017 Seven Circle Press, January 2017 Dark
Matter, January 2017 2016 Other Rooms Press, December 2016 Skidrow Penthouse, November 2016 FRiGG Magazine, November 2016 Pretty Owl Poetry, October 2016 Intterrupture, October 2016 POST-Paper, September 2016 URGENT BARDS Anthology, September 2016 Tip Of The Knife, August 2016 Boog City, August 2016 Blazevox, July 2016 Maintenant, June 2016 Unlikely Stories, May 2016 Euphemism, May 2016 Tulane Review, April 2016 The Helio Mss, April 2016 West Wind Review, March 2016 Gobbet Magazine, February 2016 Streetcake Magazine, January 2016 2015 AndOr Magazine, November 2015 The New Post-Literate, October 2015 AltPoetics, September 2015 E-ratio, July 2015 Blackbox Manifold,June 2015 Maintenant, June 2015 Bombay Gin, May 2015 Futures Trading, May 2015 Gobbet Magazine, April 2015 Blazevox, April 2015 Hamilton Stone Review, March 2015 Caliban, January 2015 2014 ‘Pider, November 2014 Ex-Ex-Lit, November 2014 MiPOesias, November 2014 Soanyway, August 2014 AltPoetics, July 2014 Unlikely Stories, May 2014 Blazevox, May 2014 Futures Trading, May 2014 Maintenant, May 2014 TheThe Poetry, March 2014 AltPoetics, March 2014 Toad Suck Review, January 2014 Caliban, January 2014 2013 Futures Trading, November 2013 The Altered Scale, November 2013 The Altered Scale, October 2013 The Altered Scale, September 2013 Unlikely Stories, August 2013 Altered Scale, August 2013 Blackbox Manifold, July 2013 Caliban, July 2013 Infinity’s Kitchen, June 2013 Blazevox, May 2013. Cricket Online Review, March 2013 Other rooms press, March 2013 Soanyway, March 2013 Altered scale, February 2013
2012 BARZAKH, December 2012 Horseless, December 2012 Great Weather for Media, November 2012 Altered Scale, November 2012 Ditch, October 2012 Altered Scale, October 2012 Offcourse, October 2012 Altered Scale, October 2012 Altered Scale, September 2012 Unlikely Stories, July 2012 Cricket Online Review, June 2012 Counterexample Poetics, June 2012 Blazevox, Spring 2012 Soanyway, March 2012 Country Music, January 2012
2011 Dear Sir, September 2011 Moria Poetry, Autumn 2011 Strange Machine, Autumn 2011 E-ratio, July 2011 Haggard and Halloo, June 2011 GlitterPony, Summer 2011 Ditch, May 2011 Ravenna Press, May 2011 Unlikely Stories, May 2011 Shampoo, April 2011 Blue + Yellow Dog Press, Spring 2011 Abjective, January 2011 2010 Ditch, October 2010 Blazevox, Fall 2010 Hamilton Stone Review, Fall 2010 Dear Sir, September 2010 Blackbox Manifold, July 2010 Ravenna Press, May 2010 Offcourse, Spring 2010 Soanyway, March 2010 6x6, March 2010 Cricket Online Review, January 2010 Streetcake, Winter 2010 Oxford Magazine, Winter 2010 2009 – and prior Indefinite Space, December 2009 FactSimile, October 2009 aslongasittakes, September 2009 Haggard and Halloo, May 2009 Lungfull! Magazine, March 2009 Corresponding Society, February 2009
Split 180, November 2008
The Text, Summer 2006
|   billy@billycancelpoetry.com
Full Length Releases MOCK TROUGH RASPING CROW, January 2018 (Released by BlazeVOX)
PSYCHO’CLOCK, May 2016 GAUZE COAST, February 2015 Headless Multi Vs. Perpetual Interface, February 2013 INNOCENT TEETH, November 2013 Razzle Dazzle Transfiguration, August 2012 A Little Sweet’N’Now Upon The Knife’s Mouth? , March 2011 The Book Of Little Calm, January 2011 The Autobiography of Shrewd Phil, September 2010 (Blue + Yellow Dog Press) Arrow Pointing Left, September 2010 126 Scholes St, May 2010 A Series of Etchings Displayed, January 2010 New Charms, November 2009 Don’t You Open That Trap Door, July 2009 Scan Cluster Scan Scatter, November 2008 A Faster Stay, August 2008 Expecting the Hits, March 2008
Audio Releases X
Dressing At The Radar Base, Tidal Channel, April 2019 LURE: Folktales Vol 1, Tidal Channel, October 2017 Soft Glitter Cosmos Needs a Pig War, Tidal Channel, May 2017 New Charms, Tidal Channel, December 2015 II, Tidal Channel, January 2015
Videopoetry ROCKabilly whole world gone CANCELed (with Jim Tuite) Druid Underground Film Festival October 2018 ‘Blue Jab Because’. The Jivin’ Ladybug, October 2015. ‘x dressing at the radar base’. The Jivin’ Ladybug, May 2015. ‘Charged By A Black Knight’. Altered Scale, March 2013
Other Flow Chart, John Ashbery Tribute Recording, PennSound, September 2017 ORNAMENT Reception, group show. New York, NY. November 24 – December 11, 2016. Digital Installation for Lime Street Station. Liverpool, UK. Alan Dunn’s ‘4 Words’ curated by Metal Liverpool. January 20, 2016. Videopoems “ALL OVERGROWN SHOULDER HIGH WEEDS” and “SPIRITUAL” for ESP-TV Broadcast in Marfa, TX. 2015. Work of Billy Cancel cited in Rutgers English Literature course: Guide To Multimedia Composition, October 2013. Work of Billy Cancel cited in Mythogeography by Dr. Phil Smith, pub. 2010 by Triarchy Press. Interviews: 2014 Great Weather For Media Performances (poetry abbreviated)
w/ Steve Dalachinsky & Matt Mottel @ IF Museum, Easton, PA, Nov 3rd
/ 4th 2018
Oilcan Press @ Jazz ‘N’ Print, June 9th 2018 Gabe Raines Book Launch Party, Muchmore's, Brooklyn, NY, July 27, 2017 Oktave Doctor's Release, 240 Frost St, Brooklyn, NY, June 17, 2017 To Tie A Ribbon RIghtly, The Park Church Co-Op, Brooklyn, NY, May 29, 2017 Poetry Reading For The Nothing Generation, KGB Bar, New York, NY, May 20, 2017 Time For History (Todd Colby Launch Party,) Picture Room, Brooklyn, NY, May 2, 2017 Phantom Wall Fundraiser, TBD, Brooklyn, NY, May 1, 2017 Independent Press Showcase at GAMBA, Brooklyn, NY, April 22, 2017 Post(blank) Vol 2 Release Party, GAMBA, Brooklyn, NY, March 11, 2017 Impossible Reading Series, Safehouse, Brooklyn, NY, March 5. 2017 Illegal Fashion Runway, White Box, New York, NY, February 14, 2017
IDIO Gallery. POST-paper Launch Party. September 29, 2016. URGENT BARDS reading release. New York, NY. September 10, 2016. Unnameable Books for Boog City 10 reading release. Brooklyn, NY. August 5, 2016.. 6th Annual NYC Poetry Festival, for Hidden House Press, at Governor’s Island, NY. July 30 + 31, 2016. Wombat Cabaret. New York, NY. July 21, 2016. Torus Porta Closing Marathon. Brooklyn, NY. July 1, 2016. Le Poisson Rouge. Maintenant 10 release reading. New York, NY June 7, 2016. The Old American Can Factory. ‘PSYCHO’CLOCK’ release + reading. Brooklyn, NY. May 27, 2016. Torus Porta. Brooklyn, NY. April 29, 2016. Sauvage Gallery, for Et Al Readings. Nashville, TN. April 10, 2016. Duke University. Brickside Festival. Chapel Hill, NC. April 9, 2016. Muse Collective/Muse Exchange. Bay Shore, NY. March 8, 2016. BC Studios. BC35 Recording + Performance. Brooklyn, NY. January 17, 2016. The 8th Floor. Clifford Owens performance. October 17, 2015. Pacific Standard. Brooklyn, NY. September 30,2015. Recess Gallery. Poet Transmit, for ESP-TV. September 3, 2015. 5th Annual NYC Poetry Festival at Governor’s Island, NY. July 25 + 26, 2015. The People’s Garden. July 26, 2015. Cornelia St. Café. Maintenant 9 release reading. New York, NY June 5, 2015. The Sidebar. Infinity’s Kitchen release. Baltimore, MD. May 14, 2015. Cornelia St. Café. Neuronautic Institute Presents. New York, NY. April 17, 2015. Rough Trade Records. For Frogbelly + Symphony record release. Brooklyn, NY. March 18, 2015. Word Bookstore. GAUZE COAST release reading. Brooklyn, NY.February 18, 2015. Babycastles Gallery, for Triptych Readings. New York, NY. February 12, 2015. Zinc Bar for Lungful! Magazine. New York, NY. February 1, 2015. Mellow Pages Library. Brooklyn, NY. January 29, 2015. 41st Annual New Year’s Day Poetry Marathon. St Mark’s Church. New York, NY. January 1, 2015. Magnet Theatre for Kiss Punch Poem. New York, NY. November 29, 2014. Conlin Barn. October 18, 2014. Deep Tanks. Staten Island, NY. October 5, 2014. MV Studio. Long Island City, NY. September 25, 2014. The Silent Barn for EXPERI-MENTAL FEST 6. September 28, 2014. Suburbia for Hatchet Job XXIII. Brooklyn, NY. August 26, 2014. The Studio. Staten Island, NY. August 24, 2014. Poets House. INNOCENT TEETH reading + release. New York, NY. August 16, 2014. 4th Annual NYC Poetry Festival at Governor’s Island, NY. July 26, 2014. Parkside Lounge. Great Weather For Media Presents. New York, NY. June 22, 2014. University of Illinois, TAG14: Theoretical Archaeology Group. Champaign- Urbana, IL. May 25, 2014. Cornelia St. Café. Maintenant 8 release reading. New York, NY. May 7, 2014. Pomegranate Gallery for 3PO3TRY NYC. New York, NY. April 12, 2014. Parkside Lounge for GREAT WEATHER FOR MEDIA release. New York, NY. August 28,2013. The Old American Can Factory, for Infinity’s Kitchen release, New York, NY. June 13, 2013. Tompkins Square Park, for the 10th Annual HOWL! Festival. New York, NY. June 1st, 2013. Yes! Series. February 22, 2013. Manitoba’s. GREAT WEATHER FOR MEDIA release. New York, NY. November 28, 2012 |
