Price, C. Russell 2015; 2024

Wednesday, January 21, 2015
with Valerie Wallace
Chicago Cultural Center
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Blue Hour Reading Series with C. Russell Price and Teresa Dzieglewicz
Haymarket House

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Kiss my cheek and think cul-de-sac,
think normative fence, think, my love,
of all the stars where better versions are breathing,
where the soft-focused-wanted me slowly wakes.

– C. Russell Price, “Our Love Transcends Sexuality & Gender & Time & Place; Translation: Not Now, Not Ever”

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Watch C. Russell Price’s 2024 reading with Teresa Dzieglewicz at the Chicago Poetry Center:

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C. Russell Price reading at the Six Points Reading Series for the Poetry Center of Chicago

C. Russell Price reading at the Six Points Reading Series for the Poetry Center of Chicago

Listen to C. Russell Price, with Valerie Wallace, read for the Poetry Center of Chicago’s Six Points Reading Series:

 When I call him after a proper cry in the office supply closet,
he asks what is drowning me today, as if memory is a growing leak,
as if he could offer some Oprah level shit. 

– C. Russell Price, “Why Can’t My Heaven Be A Mobile Home Park In A Carolina Where I Have Big Hair and Work Reception at My Husband’s Tattoo Parlor?”

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Listen to C. Russell Price read their poem “Apocalypse with Eyeliner”

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