Toni Oswald

<p>Toni Oswald is a <a href="https://tonioswald.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">writer</a>, <a href="https://tonioswald.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">musician</a>, performer, filmmaker, and visual artist who currently lives in Boulder, Colorado with her partner Max Davies and their cats Kiki Pamplemousse Fontaine and Charlie Chaplin. Her work has been shown in Los Angeles, Amsterdam and New York. She has performed across the United States and Europe with Anne Waldman, John Frusciante, Max Davies, Thurston Moore, Lydia Lunch, Cecilia Vicuna, Josh Klinghoffer, and many others. Toni’s underground rock journalism has been published in magazines here and abroad, along with literary work in The Oyez Review, Tattered Press, and Bombay Gin.</p><p><br></p><p>She is currently working on a novel about a fourteen year old girl clown set in the 1950&#39;s entitled, <em>The Gorgeous Funeral</em>. </p><p><br></p><p>Her hybrid poetry book <a href="https://www.gesturebooks.org/press/p/sirens" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><em>Sirens</em></a><em>⁠</em> is available now from us, Gesture Press. The second edition of <a href="https://www.gesturebooks.org/press/p/sirens"><em>Sirens</em>⁠</a><em>⁠</em> is out now and <a href="https://www.gesturebooks.org/press/p/sirensalbum" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">the companion album</a> will be released at the end of July.</p><p><br></p><p>Kevin sat down with Toni to discuss her early theater days, her time in the late 80&#39;s LA punk scene, the second edition of her book and companion album <a href="https://www.gesturebooks.org/press/p/sirens"><em>Sirens</em>⁠⁠</a><em>⁠</em> , and how what we really need more of is DIY art spaces, mystery, clowning as societal medicine, and the freedom to make mistakes.</p><p><br></p><p><br>SIRENS</p><p><a href="https://www.gesturepressandjournal.com/press/sirens-toni-oswald" target="_blank">https://www.gesturepressandjournal.com/press/sirens-toni-oswald</a></p><p><br>Toni&#39;s music on Spotify</p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/0hMRz9u8SjyzXYsBxcYatn" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/artist/0hMRz9u8SjyzXYsBxcYatn</a><br></p><p>Her Art Diary Blog</p><p><a href="http://tonioswald.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://tonioswald.blogspot.com/</a></p>