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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…

Read this interview from Paper Magazine:

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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Olivarez, José 2018

Friday, May 18, 2018
Poets in Space with Alex Dimitrov
Dearborn Observatory

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 Jesus has a tattoo of La Virgen De Guadalupe
covering his back. turns out he’s your cousin
Jesus from the block. turns out he gets reincarnated
every day & no one on Earth cares all that much. 

– José Olivarez, “A Mexican Dreams of Heaven”

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Listen to José Olivarez talk to poets Danez Smith and Franny Choi on the VS Podcast:

José Olivarez vs. Grownups – VS | Poetry Foundation

Poet, educator, and Young Chicago Authors Marketing Director José Olivarez explores adulting and gives some podcast-veteran advice to Danez and Franny.

all my people fold into a $2 crunchwrap supreme. the white woman
means lucky to be here and not mexico. my dad sings por tu
maldito amor & i’m sure he sings to america.

– José Olivarez, “I Walk Into Every Room and Yell Where the Mexicans At”

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Read this interview with José Olivarez from Chicago Creatives:

José Olivarez’s New Book ‘Citizen Illegal’ Is An Economic Crisis Book Of Poems.

Citizen Illegal is a book of poems that are meant to show and give voice to the ghosts and joys that haunt Mexican life.

my monsters, coyotes in the
chase, look almost human
in the sterile office light.
my monsters say they just
want to be friends.

– José Olivarez, “my therapist says make friends with your monsters”

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Watch José Olivarez read some of his work:

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Dimitrov, Alex 2018

Friday, May 18, 2018
Poets in Space with José Olivarez
Dearborn Observatory

 Make sure you date and sign here then save all the soft things.
Because everyone wants to know when it was,
how it happened — say something about it.
How the night hail made imprints all over.
Our things. Our charming and singular things. 

– Alex Dimitrov, “Together and by Ourselves”

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Read this interview with Alex Dimitrov from Divedapper:

DIVEDAPPER // Alex Dimitrov

“Resistance is one of the most important acts in life.”

 Outside, the city continued to tease us.
Hurricanes came, storms couldn’t please us:
it was all very fast and beautifully made. 

– Alex Dimitrov, “In the New Century I Gave You My Name”

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Watch Alex Dimitrov read some of his work:

Alex Dimitrov at Radar Reading Series

Alex Dimitrov is the author of American Boys (2012) and Begging for It (2013). In 2014 he launched Night Call, a multimedia poetry project through which he read poems to strangers in bed and online. Dimitrov is also the founder of Wilde Boys, a queer poetry salon in New York City.

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Erlichman, Shira 2017

Friday, Februdary 10, 2017
with Angel Nafis
Women & Children First Bookstore

Who unlocks
the door to let you in, like a wet cat How did you lift the heaviest
season from my eyelids, sweeping away a whole cloud How do you
pollinate my blood so exactly with sanity

– Shira Erlichman, “Ode to Lithium #1: The Watchman”

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Read this interview with Shira Erlichman from Nomadic Press:
https://www.nomadicpress.org/interviews/shiraerlichman

Someone’s unprofessional opinion
was to “relax” over matter. To sandcastle over
wave. They aimed to clean up a murder scene
from behind a plate of glass. It was my murder.

– Shira Erlichman, “Ode to Lithium #75: Mind over Matter”

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Watch Shira Erlichman read “Excuse Me, I Lost My Compass, Can I Borrow Yours” at WordXWord Poetry Festival:

Shira Erlichman – Excuse Me, I Lost My Compass, Can I Borrow Yours

Shira Erlichman performs her poem “Excuse Me, I Lost My Compass, Can I Borrow Yours” February 16, 2013 at Y Bar, Pittsfield, MA as part of the WordXWord 10×10 Poetry Festival.

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Nafis, Angel 2017

Friday, February 10, 2017
with Shira Erlichman
Women and Children First Bookstore

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Angel, 102-degree fever.
Angel, long-gone lavender in a dirty-water vase.
Angel don’t touch me here or there or there.
Can you smell me?

– Angel Nafis, “Angel Nafis”

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Read this interview with Angel Nafis from Entropy Magazine:
https://entropymag.org/dinnerview-angel-nafis/

 If you miss your stop. Or lose love. If even the medicine hurts too.
Even when your side-eye, your face stank, still, your heart moans bride.
Fuck the fog back off the mirror. Trust the road in your name. Ride
Your moon hide through the pitch black. Gotsta be your own bride. 

– Angel Nafis, “Ghazal for Becoming Your Own Country”

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Watch Angel Nafis read “Conspiracy: a Suite” at WordXWord Festival:


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