Durbin, Kate 2013
My spectators loved my Orange County neighborhood
in the sluggish melt of summer:
avocados thudding to earth,
bougainvillea petals browning the asphalt,
the old woman with Aqua-net hair
hosing her Bermuda grass.
– Kate Durbin, “Captives”
Read this interview with Kate Durbin from BOMB Magazine:
http://bombmagazine.org/article/1000214/kate-durbin
I don’t remember learning how. Only not knowing, then knowing. Before: lines chickens made in the dirt inside the coop; circles and triangles I drew in the garden mud with my fingers. The only meaning attributed these symbols, that of a child’s whimsy.
– Kate Durbin, “Unlearning to Read”
Watch Kate Durbin read from her chapbook, “Kept Women,” at the Bureau of Experimental Speech and Holy Theses:
Kate Durbin reads Kept Women during BESHT Gallery Hours! 2012-12-16 (2 of 5)
Kate Durbin reads from her “Kept Women” (Parrot Press, 2012), meanwhile Prof. Padu Paga does a pipe smoking performance to accompany. Broadcast live on 12/16/2012 from the Bureau of Experimental Speech and Holy Theses (BESHT), located at the Pomona College Museum of Art! https://www.facebook.com/BESHTx
