music Archives - M. Leona Godin

Featured Artist at Inspired Word

I’m excited to be one of two featured performers at the Inspired Word Tuesday Night World Showcase and Open Mic! Come check out my half-hour performance of selections from There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness (Pantheon Books, June 2021), and consider a performance of your own! Tickets at Eventbrite. More about There Plant Eyes A probing,… Read more

The Brain-Smashing, Pity-Bashing Art of Blind Punks

“You must sing like an angel,” a woman said to me as I prepared to go onstage with my “Avant Accordion Brain Smash” act in a Brooklyn warehouse performance space. She either did not notice my hand-sewn black bustier, or decided that my white cane rendered all the badassery surrounding it null. When I began bellowing about some murderous renaissance… Read more

Revisiting the Tremé By Way of ‘Treme’, #52essays2017

I’m a little late to the party, but then again I was sort of early too. I just started watching the HBO show treme, and I love it so much, I don’t allow myself to binge watch. I save it for a good ole romp on the treadmill—one episode a day, if I make it to the treadmill. The opening… Read more

Apostrophe, an anti-suicide suicide song for accordion

To sleep perchance to dream I hope. Can I will myself to survive I wish. Last wish. Last dying wish to live. I took the anti-step Just now Nothing to live for so long You see. And nothing to die for either I fear. On this long Long long Way down. When I hit the bottom My body… Read more