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Dubrow, Jehanne 2017

Wednesday, Nov 8, 2017
with Emily Jungmin Yoon
City Lit Books

 

 

We dreamed of glowing children,
their throats alive and cancerous,
their eyes like lightning in the dark.

              – Jehanne Dubrow, “Chernobyl Year”

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Read this interview with Jehanne Dubrow from the American Literary Review:

Obsession and Resistance in Poetry: An Interview with Jehanne Dubrow

Obsession and Resistance in Poetry: An Interview with Jehanne DuBrow Interview conducted by Sebastian Paramo Jehanne Dubrow is a prolific poet whose work is visceral and rich with the language of the senses. Her sixth book of poems, Dots & Dashes, won the 2016 Crab Orchard Review Series in Poetry Open Competition Award and will be published…

And flickering beyond the fence,
we’ll see the slatted lives
of strangers. The light
above a neighbor’s porch
will be a test of how we tolerate
the half-illumination
of uncertainty

– Jehanne Dubrow, “Syllabus for the Dark Ahead”

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Watch this visual depiction of one of her poems:

The Long Deployment by Jehanne Dubrow

On 11 November, 2015 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments – Videopoems In honor of Armistice Day, Remembrance Day, and in the U.S., Veteran’s Day, here’s a poem by Jehanne Dubrow adapted by Nicole McDonald for Motionpoems, whose monthly email newsletter describes it as “a love letter to all who’ve had a loved one overseas.”

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Faizullah, Tarfia 2018

Friday, Jan 26, 2018
with Kaveh Akbar
Produce Model Gallery

 

 

because I look like them—
because I am ashamed
of their bodies that reek so
unabashedly of body—
because I can—because I am
an American, a star
of blood on the surface of muscle. 

              – Tarfia Faizullah, “En Route to Bangladesh, Another Crisis of Faith”

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Read this interview with Tarfia Faizullah from Lantern Review:

A Conversation with Tarfia Faizullah

Tarfia Faizullah is the author of (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014), winner of the 2012 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. Her poems appear in Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, The Southern Review, Massachusetts Review, Ninth Letter , and are anthologized in Poems of Devotion: An Anthology of Recent Poets (Wipf & Stock, 2012).

I play
and replay the voices of these
hurt women flowering
like marigolds or thistles.

– Tarfia Faizullah, “The Interviewer Acknowledges Grief”

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Watch Tarfia Faizullah read here:

Voluble: “Feast or Famine” and “Love Poem Ending with the Eye of a Needle” by Tarfia Faizullah

This video features two poems by Tarfia Faizullah, a featured poet at the LA Review of Books exclusive channel: Voluble.

It bewilders me to have looked
at this piece of fruit without
seeing it grow its own blue
shroud. Now you, too, are
gone.  

– Tarfia Faizullah, “What I Want is Simple”

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Akbar, Kaveh 2018

Friday, Jan 26, 2018
with Tarfia Faizullah
Produce Model Gallery

Teenagers are texting each other pictures
of orchids on their phones, which are also orchids.
Old men in orchid pennyloafers
furiously trade orchids.

              – Kaveh Akbar, “Orchids are Sprouting from the Floorboards”

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Read this interview with Kaveh Akbar from Slice Magazine:

https://slicemagazine.org/literal-magic-an-interview-with-poet-kaveh-akbar/

angels don’t care about humility
you shaved your head        spent eleven days half-starved in solitary
and not a single divine trumpet wept into song      now it’s lonely all over

– Kaveh Akbar, “Heritage”

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I WAS ALREADY AN AMERICAN LAST WEEK WHEN A LEAF FELL – Kaveh Akbar

Watch Kaveh Akbar read his piece, which is also live at PANK in our new Spring / Summer 2016 issue. www.pankmagazine.com

your mouth a moonless system
of caves filling with dust
the dust thickened to tar
your mouth opened and tar spilled out 

– Kaveh Akbar, “Palmyra”

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Kaveh Akbar is an Iranian-American poet who has received honors including a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a Pushcart Prize, the Levis Reading Prize, and a Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. In February 2019, he was named an editor for Poetry Daily. His poems appear in The New Yorker, Poetry, and The New York Times, among others. His debut full-length collection, Calling a Wolf a Wolf, is out with Alice James in the US and Penguin in the UK, and his chapbook, Portrait of the Alcoholic, was published by Sibling Rivalry Press. Akbar founded  Divedapper, and, along with Sarah Kay and Claire Schwartz, he writes a weekly column for the Paris Review called “Poetry RX.” Previously, he ran The Quirk, a for-charity print literary journal. He has also served as Poetry Editor for BOOTH and Book Reviews Editor for the Southeast Review

Xu, Lynn 2018

Thursday, Feb 22, 2018
with Jennifer Roche
Sector 2337

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Doors open and shut.
We’ve come to the place where nothing shines.
I hear eternity
Is self-forgetting.  Interiors warm with the nightmare of guests and poetry
And you.

              – Lynn Xu, “Earth Light: I”

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Read this interview with Lynn Xu from the Huffington Post:

National Poetry Month Emerging Poet Spotlight: Interview with Lynn Xu, Author of Debts and Lessons

Lynn Xu’s debut book of poetry, Debts & Lessons , has just appeared (April 1) from the always terrific Omnidawn Publishing.

Now rising
Now setting
A windbreak of gum trees
Etcetera
The edge of time
Etcetera

– Lynn Xu, “Nocturne”

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Adair-Hodges, Erin 2018

Wednesday, March 21, 2018
with Sarah Rose Nordgren and Jenny Molberg
Unabridged Bookstore

 

 

Certainly we have the time for that, at least,
to find the words they’ll bury us in,
singing over whatever’s left
a tumble of jumbles pushed out by tongues
because to keep living is the loneliest thing. 

Erin Adair-Hodges, “As If”

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Read this interview with Erin Adair-Hodges from the Georgia Review:

https://thegeorgiareview.com/online/the-work-lives-outside-of-me-an-interview-with-erin-adair-hodges/

All I know
is that we do not have to have a thing
to lose it. I mourn the children
I am too sad to have, and the disappointment
of the lover I am too tired to take.

– Erin Adair-Hodges, “Of Yalta”

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Watch Erin Adair-Hodges read for the Chicago Poetry Center, with Sarah Rose Nordgren and Jenny Molberg:

The Poetry Center of Chicago: Six Points Reading Series

The Poetry Center of Chicago brings together poets Jenny Molberg, Erin Adair-Hodges, and Sarah Rose Nordgren for an installment of the Six Points Reading Series. This program was recorded by Chicago Access Network Television (CAN TV).

Erin Adair-Hodges starts reading at 17:20.

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Erin Adair-Hodges is a poet and essayist born and raised in New Mexico who received her M.F.A. from the University of Arizona. She is the winner of the Allen Tate Award for Poetry, the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize for her first poetry collection Let’s All Die Happy, and various other prizes and awards, and her poems have appeared in Green Mountains Review, Kenyon Review, and Prairie Schooner, among others.

Molberg, Jenny 2018

Wednesday, March 21, 2018
with Sarah Rose Nordgren and Erin Adair-Hodges
Unabridged Bookstore

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Him, in the dark, calling my body
his. My breasts, my hair, my hips. I shout leave
into Motherwell’s circles. I know I can’t help it, the ring
in its strange case, cold as a head with no body. 

– Jenny Molberg, “After Pawning the Engagement Ring”

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Read this interview with Jenny Molberg from the Los Angeles Review of Books:

Poetry is Rocket Science: An Interview with Jenny Molberg – BLARB

Anthony Immergluck Interviews Jenny Molberg about her poetry collection “Marvels of the Invisible.”

Are we not all sick with our own scolding?
When they found your heartbeat
I thought this could be a girl. Just as quick,
you were gone. The question, the what-if:
always regret. But that is too simple.
To regret is to be too late. 

– Jenny Molberg, “Echolocation”

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Watch Jenny Molberg read for the Chicago Poetry Center, with Sarah Rose Nordgren and Erin Adair-Hodges:

Jenny Molberg starts reading at 2:54.

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Nordgren, Sarah Rose 2018

Wednesday, March 21, 2018
with Jenny Molberg and Erin Adair-Hodges
Unabridged Bookstore

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The holiest thing a mother does is know
your name long after her skin
disintegrates. I stand in a dark room imagining
my birth in 1917, so I can reverse
each injury her body takes. 

Sarah Rose Nordgren, “1917”

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Read this interview with Sarah Rose Nordgren from Adroit Journal:

Conversations with Contributors: Sarah Rose Nordgren (Poetry, Issue 11) – The Adroit Journal

Issue Eleven is out, and Conversations with Contributors is back! First up in this sequence of interviews is Sarah Rose Nordgren, whose poem “Kindling” rocks the new issue. Amanda Silberling, Blog Editor: Your poetry collection Best Bones, which the Adroit blog reviewed, came out last fall.

The outer crust of my life peeled away
and under it I am left with a white
and trembling egg, round as the moon.  

– Sarah Rose Nordgren, “The Outer Crust”

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Watch Sarah Rose Nordgren read for the Chicago Poetry Center, with Jenny Molberg and Erin Adair-Hodges:

Sarah Rose Nordgren starts reading at 34:12.

You could even sleep out
under the glorious stars where
a snake the exact diameter
of your throat would find you,
crawl in through your mouth
and devour every system.

– Sarah Rose Nordgren, “Electromagnetic”

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Watch some of Sarah’s interdisciplinary work here:

Smart Snow 2016-2017 from Kathleen Kelley on Vimeo.

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Holloway, Shawné Michaelain 2018

Thursday,April 19, 2018
with Sherae Rimpsey and Jazzy Smith
Filmfront

 

Watch some of Shawné Michaelain Holloway’s work:

“castle_of_the_white_prince” or an_offer_i_couldnt_accept.mp4

This is “”castle_of_the_white_prince” or an_offer_i_couldnt_accept.mp4″ by shawné michaelain holloway on Vimeo, the home for high quality…

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http://www.papermag.com/shawne-1668300350.html

Listen to some of her music here:

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shawné michaelain holloway. Chicago, Illinois.

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