Gabrielle Bouliane, now fully angel
Gabrielle Bouliane is now fully angel. This incredible poet made her transition from this life last night. I would like to share this post with you from Mongo and the IndieFeed Family which includes Gabrielle’s poem “Lifesentence.”
IndieFeed Family…
As many of you doubtless already know, Gabrielle Bouliane passed away last night. She was surrounded by friends and family, and it sounds like she slipped away quite peacefully.
For the 35 of you who left messages for her, to be included in our special show, the sad news is that she passed away before we were able to produce the show, and get it to her. She just left us far too quickly, there at the end.
But as I discussed with Cristin this morning, healing and mourning are jobs for the living. So maybe, in that way, these messages were actually for us all along. And being able to share this great flash of hope after she is gone makes the timing quite perfect.
The show was recorded on Thursday, and releases on Monday. But it’s available now, if you’d like to hear it:
http://traffic.libsyn.com/poetry/indiefeed_gabriellebouliane_lifesentence.mp3
Feel free to share this link widely, forward this message to your mailing lists, e-mail the info to friends, and post it to your journals and websites. Let’s all sing and remember Gabrielle, and Bunny Up for her one more time.
With a heavy heart, but one buoyed by the love of this family…
–Mongo
P.S.. I posted this link to my LiveJournal this morning, and Cristin has also been sending it out this morning. In just over two hours, 65 people had downloaded the audio. Gabrielle continues to inspire!!!!
Gabrielle Bouliane
Bio
Website: http://www.livepoets.com
Gabrielle Bouliane has returned to her hometown of Buffalo, NY after eight years on the stages of Seattle, WA. While out west, she was a tireless organizer and performer, appearing in hundreds of live shows around the country, including being a member of the 1999 Seattle Poetry Slam Team, and has volunteered at ten other National Poetry Slams, and all the Individual World Poetry Slams to date.
Because she believes that the Poetry Slam can change the way people look at life and each other, she spearheaded the founding of the video program of Poetry Slam Inc., and is the founder of LivePoets.com, the largest collection of freely streamed slam poetry work in the nation. Currently, she curates the Nickel City Poetry Slam in Buffalo. She also founded and directed Slip of the Tongue Performance Poetry Ensemble, has hosted seven national Erotica Slam showcases, and has been seen on stage in a bunny suit.
Her work is personal, evocative, and passionate, telling her story in an upcoming one-woman show for Buffalo’s Infringement Theater Festival: “If You Can’t Stand the Heat, Get Out of the Redhead.” She is the author of such chapbooks as “The Single Girl’s Guide to the End of the Millenium”, “Bittersweet: Dark Chocolate and Cheap Red Wine”; “The Bitter and the Pale: Tales of Lust and Longing, Smoke and Seduction”. She is also, in every sense, a redhead.
