Tea Project 2016
Saturday, April 9, 2016
Tea Project at Links Hall
Tea Project at Links Hall
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Clark, Ben 2016
Your absence has taken root
in my body, as an apple tree
might, or a dry creek bed
waiting for rain. Certainly
this rooting is a growing
thing, not a stone, perennial
– Ben Clark, “Your absence has taken root…”
Read about Ben Clark as one of “8 Young Poets From Chicago To Watch Out For:”
8 Young Poets From Chicago To Watch Out For
Chicago has always been a breeding ground for great poetry meet the new generation.
When I return, the hammer has been placed
again under my pillow, a buck knife
on the bedside table. The same fears
as eight years ago. One friend burns powder
pulls cards, lights candles.
– Ben Clark (with Whitney Seiler), “offerings, protection, or something else entirely”
Woods, Jamila 2016
hot to the touch, always sweating
oil from some fruit or nut, conducting
electricity clockwise, 3D printing
my signature over & over again
in new cursive
– Jamila Woods, “My Afropuffs”
Read this interview with Jamila Woods from SPIN Magazine:
http://www.spin.com/2016/07/jamila-woods-chicago-heavn-new-album-interview/
it just so happens that i am hiding
weapons in my hair, just like the blonde
TSA lady expected. when she stuck her rubber
glove fingers in the thicket, a poem
jumped out and bit off her eyelashes.
– Jamila Woods, “in security or on being touched without permission”
Watch Jamila Woods’s music video for “Blk Girl Soldier:”
Yoon, Emily Jungmin 2016
There’s an article on how to eat an apple.
But I am eating a pear and thinking
pear in Korean is a homonym for ship or boat
– Emily Jungmin Yoon, “News”
Read this interview with Emily Jungmin Yoon from The Blueshift Journal:
http://www.theblueshiftjournal.com/#!April-Feature-Interview-with-Emily-Yoon/cltp/5707f5250cf2e0dbcac872ff
I want to paint you with rainwater:
your window, smoke over slick avenues.
The first time I thought you beautiful,
your lashes blonde lamplight.
– Emily Jungmin Yoon, “Soren”
Watch Emily Jungmin Yoon read her work at UChicago:
Soto, Christopher 2016
My heart is a mudslide, it will suffocate you
[stuff your mouth with forestry].
Don’t you know? That broken-boys can’t
make a proper home. Just listen to my chest.
– Christopher Soto, “Hatred of Happiness”
Read this interview with Christopher Soto from Apogee Journal:
http://www.apogeejournal.org/2014/08/nepantla-an-interview-with-christopher-soto/
Say that my body // is not a sequin dress–
Is not a raw fish, being stripped of scales.
Say that I am not // a drunken disco ball
In a lonely skating rink.
– Christopher Soto, “Myself When I Am Real”
I wake with no sleep. Yellow tape is wrapped around my block.
– Christopher Soto, “Oakland, Cal.”
Watch Christopher Soto read his poetry:
Vorreyer, Donna 2016
Not ready to sleep
in its restless bed, I weave a necklace
of seaweed, paddle my way back to you —
no blue is that blue.
– Donna Vorreyer, “The Lost Art of Giving Up”
Read this interview with Donna Vorreyer from Sundress Publications:
Interview with Donna Vorreyer – The Sundress Blog
Donna Vorreyer is the author of Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story (Sundress Publications, 2016) and A House of Many Windows (Sundress Publications, 2013) as well as seven chapbooks, most recently Encantado, a collaboration with artist Matt Kish from Redbird Chapbooks. She is the reviews editor for Stirring: A Literary Collection, and she …
When we meet again, you notice
something in the air – lilacs
or lullabies, a subtle change
in the horizon’s line.
– Donna Vorreyer, “Preamble”
Listen to this radio show featuring Donna Vorreyer from WAYOfm:
Asghar, Fatimah 2016
Today, I broke your solar system. Oops.
My bad. Your graph said I was supposed
to make a nice little loop around the sun.
– Fatimah Asghar, “Pluto Shits on the Universe”
Read this interview with Fatimah Asghar from Bitch Media:
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How I played football
with the boys in the school park
& let my moustache grow longer
than anyone in my class
& isn’t that a type of girlhood
Too?
– Fatimah Asghar, “Mother”
Watch Fatimah Asghar’s TedxRushU talk:
We Own All the Language in the World | Fatimah Asghar | TEDxRushU
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Watch the web series, Brown Girls, Fatimah Asghar wrote here:
Episodes – Brown Girls Web Series
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Sánchez, Erika L. 2015
a gaggle of silent children
gather before a sputtering
trash bin. Together they watch
the terror hover like flies.
– Erika L. Sánchez, “Kingdom of Debt”
Read this interview with Erika L. Sánchez from NBC:
What I’ve Learned: ‘Poetry Chose Me,’ Says Writer Erika L. Sánchez
Erika L. Sánchez, a poet, writer and sex columnist, talks of the importance of embracing art as a career and finding one’s voice.
A man on the street tears the gold
necklace from your mother’s neck—
this is how you learn that nothing
will belong to you. In your mangled
language, you’ll count all the reasons
you wish to die, the apartment bristling
with roaches.
– Erika L. Sánchez, “Girl”
Watch Erika L. Sánchez read some of her work at Bonk! Performance Art Series:
Hoffman, Richie 2015
We always arrived late,
sometimes in masks. You wore a sword
at your side. The heads that watched
our little pageant were busts of the great composers
and not men lined up for the executions.
– Richie Hoffman, “At The Palais Garnier”
Read this interview with Richie Hoffman from divedapper:
DIVEDAPPER // Richie Hofmann
“The world has already written the poem.”
Didn’t rain choke the animal throats
of the cathedral sputter
against the roofs of the city didn’t the flight
of stairs rise up above the cobbled street
didn’t the key clamor
in the lock
– Richie Hoffman, “Keys to the City”
Listen to Richie Hoffman read one of his poems:
The Adroit Journal – Issue Nine: Richie Hofmann | The Adroit Journal – The Adroit Journal
Richie Hofmann’s debut collection of poems, Second Empire, is winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award and is forthcoming from Alice James Books in 2015. He is the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and his poems appear in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, and Poetry.
Poets Look at Paintings 2015
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Join the Poetry Center of Chicago for a revival of Poets Look at Paintings. The original event in 1973 marked the beginning of the Poetry Center and we’re thrilled to have culled a top-notch line up of poets from an open call for submissions. These poets will each read one ekphrastic poem that wowed us in the submission review process. Admission is free and open to the public in the Garland Room on the first floor of the Chicago Cultural Center.
Featuring:
Christopher Kempf
Nissa Holtkamp
Tiffany Austin
Natasha Mijares
Sarah Ann Winn
Virginia Bell
Paul Asta
Natania Rosenfeld
Naoko Fujimoto
