Bean, Emmy 2013
Watch some of Emmy Bean’s film work:
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Friday, August 19, 2011
Grackles, scatter like pieces
of a story. Sweethearts
of ash and butter, finger
squint-star light, draw
a spine down the highway.
– Michael Bassett, “Directives”
Read this interview with Michael Bassett from Greenwood Writer’s Guild:
Featured Author: Michael Bassett
Which writers inspire you? My literary influences are a crazy broth of very disparate authors. The poets I most admire are Albert Goldbarth, Angela Ball, Roger Weingarten, John Lane Michael Chitwood, Susn Ludvigson, Rainer Maria Rilke, Beckian Fritz Golberg, and Charles Harper Webb. I guess the poet whose work I go back to most that…
He can’t stop thinking about apricots
shriveling, paint belching, tiny frogs
dripping above matches. Outside
his secret fort, yellowing
sycamore leaves crackle.
– Michael Bassett, “The Blackboard of His Eyelid”
Watch Michael Bassett read some of his work:
Wilson, Leila 2013
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Water meanders
to prairie potholes,
throws cordgrass
into switchbacks
as we push past
bramble and scare
a whistling wheel
of geese into air.
– Leila Wilson, “What Is the Field?”
Read this interview with Leila Wilson from The Knox Writers’ House:
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Some land lives
so water can comb
it into grids. This
is why lowlands
tilt still toward
the sea. This so
– Leila Wilson, “Nether”
Williams, Miller & Lucinda 2014
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Go find a jukebox
And see what a quarter will do
I don’t wanna talk
I just wanna go back to the blue
– Lucinda Williams, “Blue”
Broadside of Miller Williams’ poem, “A Poem for Emily,” and Lucinda William’s piece, “Blue.”
Some of what we do, we do
to make things happen,
the alarm to wake us up, the coffee to perc,
the car to start.
– Miller Williams, “Love Poem with Toast”
Read this interview with Lucinda Williams from The Believer:
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When I was a boy and a man would die
we’d say a verse when the hearse went by
one car two car three car four
someone knocking on the devil’s door.
– Miller Williams, “June Twenty, Three Days After”
Watch Lucinda Williams perform some of her work:
Watch Miller Williams read some of his poetry:
Wertheim, Christine 2012
Friday, November 10, 2012
Watch Christine Wertheim read some of her poetry:
Read about Christine Wertheim’s project, Crochet Coral Reef:
http://crochetcoralreef.org/contributors/christine_wertheim.php
Weaver, Deke 2013
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Watch Deke Weaver read some of his work:
Watch Deke Weaver at TedxUIUC:
Wallace, Valerie 2015
The naked sound of the body sounds
Like a trumpet. I announce a new world
In which your madness and my madness
At the point of a needle, is my love, spinning.
– Valerie Wallace, “Silhouette for the 21st Century”
Read this interview with Valerie Wallace from the Chicago Review of Books:
Valerie Wallace Explores the Life and Work of Alexander McQueen – Chicago Review of Books
A conversation with the debut poet behind ‘House of McQueen.’
Beauty is an accusation. Nature
Herself has turned metaphysical.
Skull bears witness, proper
& perfect. Viper to socket, startles
me into alertness.
– Valerie Wallace, “Small Seams”
Watch Valerie Wallace read her poetry:
Vitkauskas, Lina Ramona 2014
Among the blood instruments,
so well-arranged against the moss,
patients wear the thievery of apostropherubber,
feathers.
– Lina Ramona Vitkauskas, “Where the Tympanuchus Roam”
Listen to Lina Ramona Vitkauskas’s reading at the Poetry Center of Chicago with Tyler Mills and Larry Sawyer:
Lina Ramona Vitkauskas begins at 26:02 minutes.
this hostage situation
beats as a rug
or a zombie drummer,
where no cadence collects,
– Lina Ramona Vitkauskas, “The Moderate Glance of Love’s Fellow Alternate”
Watch Lina Ramona Vitkauskas read some of her poetry:
Romero, Anthony 2013
Friday, December 13, 2013
Watch a Performance Art Symposium that Anthony Romero took part in:
In>Time Performance Art Symposium from SAIC Performance on Vimeo.
Read an interview with Anthony Romero from Sixty Inches From Center:
Archive Lovers Night + Project Premiere with Media Burn and On The Real Film – May 19 – Sixty Inches From Center
The opening night of the Chicago Archives + Artists Festival features the screening of a new video work from a collaboration between Media Burn and On the Real Film.
Sawyer, Larry 2014
Upstart cartoon morning;
these various roosters scratch inside the eyelids
and declare beneath the streetlamps that their
moats are filled with vowels.
– Larry Sawyer, “Sundial”
Listen to Larry Sawyer’s 2014 reading for the Poetry Center of Chicago, with Tyler Mills and Lina Ramona Vitkauskas:
Larry Sawyer begins at 16:25 minutes.
The pentagon is a drop of amber
In which is preserved the animal mind
– Larry Sawyer, “A Cold Hand Draws the Covers Over the Moon”
Watch Larry Sawyer read some of his work:
