Lenna M Pierce (Meaner Pencil) is a dark-folk-singing cellist, memoirist, and music reviewer who has performed in the filthiest subway stations of New York City as well as at medieval French churches and turn of the century Swiss theaters, house shows in Paris, Barcelona and Berlin, and artist co-ops in Lincoln Nebraska. She is a happy member of Borrowed Birds record label.
Lenna Pierce
Articles by Lenna Pierce:
Dispatch: Art Out of the World
in Issue 88 | Magic (Jul 2018)The Itinerant Performance Art Festival: the most beautiful performances might not be the most direct.
Taurean Secretion
in Issue 80 | Blood and Milk (Sep 2017)the love a cow feels - so that it will last forever - they stand in the mud and sing - the innocent poverty of communism - for ice cream is Zmrzlina – to sing a concert in a bar - folk gods hiding - a devil who children – the milky sweet lullaby
Some Thoughts on “The Art of Practicing” by Madeline Bruser
in Issue 72 | Practice (Feb 2017)how to move your fingers really well - eventually you are graceful - carpal tunnel syndrome - Bubble your lips - the possibility of joy
Trauma in a Benevolent Monastery
in Issue 71 | The French Issue (Jan 2017)said the bureaucrat to the beautiful liar - a former monastery in a tiny French village - my great uncle had two death certificates - a celtic paleolith - a reverse Eiffel Tower - we could see the fascists coming through the fields - I dutifully marked myself Facebook safe