Jim Trainer, Poet
PRESS RELEASE
Contact: Jim Trainer
Phone: 512-203-6288
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
10/5/21
VAX POPULI VAX DEI-AN EVENING WITH JIM TRAINER IN AUS-OGG-PDX-CML-ATO-PHL
Poet, publisher and performer Jim Trainer brings his Standup Tragedy™ to Athens, at Donkey Coffee on October 22. With a show consisting of music, the spoken word and dark humor Trainer has embarked on a vax-card only tour, with dates everywhere from Maui to Philadelphia. Trainer is promoting the release of his 8th collection of poetry, STRIDE, due out in December through Yellow Lark Press. In addition, he will offer a limited edition and letter pressed broadside of his poem RECURRENT, shared below, along with back titles and a 5-song EP.
Trainer’s VAX POPULI VAX DEI tour was booked in response to being unable to book a tour through the usual channels, and going crazy at home like everybody else from a lack of performing.
“It’s a punk rock operation all day, Bubba,” Trainer says. “I’ve got cities booked without venues, but I’m not worried. I need the stage as much as I needed the vaccine.” The tour’s been hatched together by a job interview in HI and his biannual homecoming to Philadelphia—Hostile City USA.
As a personal journalist Trainer has spent over a decade chronicling the inner life of a creative, while documenting the travails of being a shift worker, “romantic nihilist” and citizen trying to “stay in walls” and continue writing in peace alone.
Jim Trainer’s storytelling, poetry and song are from the street level but with a literary bent. Punk rock poetry. What else. Offering a “least factual, most accurate” account of an artist trying to make it in the end times. Join Jim Trainer in celebrating the release of STRIDE, his 8th collection of poetry, at these venues worldwide:
MAUI HI TBD
PORTLAND OR 10/17
Derby Kenton
COLUMBUS OH 10/21
Secret Studio
ATHENS OH 10/22
Donkey Coffee
HOSTILE CITY USA 10/25
Cavanaugh’s Headhouse Square
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Jim Trainer is a poet, publisher, writer and performer. He blogs weekly at Going For the Throat and writes a monthly column for Into The Void magazine. As a proponent of personal journalism Trainer reports on the inner life while writing about recovery, mental health and the creative process. Trainer publishes one letterpressed and perfectly bound-by-hand collection of poetry, and sometimes prose, every year through Yellow Lark Press. STRIDE will be his 8th. Trainer is the progenitor of Stand Up Tragedy™ and performs regularly throughout the world.
Jim Trainer
512-203-6288
jamesmichaeltrainer@gmail.com
PHOTOS
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WRITING SAMPLE
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RECURRENT, a poem
Going for the Throat 