circling the Airport living the gimmick

billy cancel is a Brooklyn-based poet/performer. He is the author of 2 full length poetry collections BUTTERCUP TANTRUM MUTTON ENCORE (forthcoming on Broadstone Books, 2022) and MOCK TROUGH RASPING CROW (BlazeVOX Books 2018.) His poetry has been published in Boston Review, PEN America, SAND Journal and Bombay Gin amongst others. With Thursday Fernworthy (Lauds), billy makes up the noise/pop band Tidal Channel who performed his noise poetry sequence BUTTERCUP TANTRUM MUTTON ENCORE at Ravenna Museum of Art in November 2019 as part of the Transmissions VII Festival. In 2013, he appeared in Marianne Vitale’s production Missing Book Of Spur at the Performa 13 festival. His contribution to ‘4 WORDS’ was broadcast as part of the 2016 Liverpool Provocations Art Festival. He has read at the Poetry Project’s New Year Marathon. In December 2019, billy and his work were featured in London-based culture magazine HERO. In April 2021, billy cancel was a poet in residence as part of the Brooklyn waterfront Poets Afloat reading series. Visit him at www.billycancelpoetry.com