Gamble, Hannah 2014; 2021
Hello, poet. I read your book again today,
and with Houston finally being
what I want it to be (windy
and piled with the bodies of pumpkins)
I have to say I felt
alone. Alone is a proud
and quiet feeling where I am everything
and everything is a cluster of four pumpkin-colored
leaves on a tree still green in October.
– Hannah Gamble, “Neighborhood Beautification”
Watch Hannah Gamble’s 2021 reading with Mayda Del Valle at the Chicago Poetry Center:
Hannah Gamble begins at 6:05 minutes.
Read Hannah Gamble’s Interview with Ghost City Press:
Hannah Gamble – Ghost City Press
Hannah Gamble, interviewed by Blake Wallin One of my favorite things about Your Invitation to a Modest Breakfast is how conceptually rich the poems are yet how the reader is forced to find contexts for them at the same time. What were your influences while writing your first bo
Listen to Hannah Gamble, with Kenyatta Rodgers, read for the Poetry Center of Chicago’s Six Points Reading Series:
Hannah Gamble begins reading at 20:42 minutes.
A little ways above the hands
the mouths spoke together
but for two
different reasons,
like the music was behaving
but the orchestra was broken.
– Hannah Gamble, “It Was Alive, Though Differently”
