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Hak, Seo Jung and Megan Sungyoon 2024

Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Blue Hour Reading Series with Seo Jung Hak (서정학), translation by Megan Sungyoon, and Edgar Kunz
Haymarket House

They said they thought Earth was a planet composed only of water. Because their paper-box-like spaceship that lacked even basic waterproofing had always sunk into the deep abyss within minutes of landing on the sea. Shaking even with the blanket over the shoulders, one of them insisted that they were the first, or second, alien who had properly landed here.

– Seo Jung Hak, translated from Korean by Megan Sungyoon, from “Hot Love”

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Watch Megan Sungyoon and Seo Jung Hak’s 2024 reading with Edgar Kunz at the Chicago Poetry Center:

Megan Sungyoon and Seo Jung Hak begin at 2:26 minutes.

The heart was about to explode when the pipe was raised, still bleeding. The length of happiness was inversely proportional to fear, that bold solidity. Disgusting laughter echoed around. I, too, almost cried. Quickly checked the surroundings. Oxygen and glucose suddenly reached the state of saturation. The body gradually shrank and the gulped-down Big Mac froze in the huge stomach.

– Seo Jung Hak, translated from Korean by Megan Sungyoon, from “Adrenaline”

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Watch this event on translating Korean poetry with Megan Sungyoon:

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Henry, Marcy Rae 2023

Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Blue Hour Reading Series with Marcy Rae Henry and Kenyatta Rogers
Haymarket House

Too much truthtelling in poetry. It ain’t lyrical.
Stick with your own kind. Smoldering
and unwashed and looking for the nearest spigot.

That’s more like life.
But the thing is, there was a drama teacher.
Asymmetrical haircut. Glasses on a long chain of beads.
And a love scene: You have to kiss whoever I pair you with.

– Marcy Rae Henry, “It was the 80s and gay girls at our high school got the hell beat out of them”

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Watch Marcy Rae Henry’s 2023 reading with Kenyatta Rogers at the Chicago Poetry Center:

Marcy Rae Henry begins at 37:50 minutes.

i tell you there are 5 black doors in front of me
and i want to paint one red.

amnesia is typically violent.
non-penetrating business is common
and reasonably understood.

the brain suffers playback.
non-penetrating violent failure.

– Marcy Rae Henry, “polygraph of the amnesiac”

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Read this interview with Marcy Rae Henry:

Riding the Dragon: Between Inhale and Exhale, Time Stretching Like Shadows Across Purple Mountains – Mud Season Review

An Interview with Marcy Rae Henry by Jonah Meyer, Mud Season Review Poetry Editor Please tell us about your writing process. Do you have a specific or favored routine? A preferred time, setting, or place for your creation of poems? Who, what, when, or where tends to inspire you?

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Hicks, Faylita 2022

Wednesday, September 21, 2022
Blue Hour Reading Series with Faylita Hicks and Hila Ratzabi
Haymarket House

The highway swells like tide and I lie awake, willing
dozens of wheels to swerve loose of the pile-up
I know is coming, always comes, when I am away,
being Black and bothered.

– Faylita Hicks, “ASMR Sleepcast: The Night After Being Released from the Rural County Jail”

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Watch Faylita Hicks’ 2022 reading with Hila Ratzabi at the Chicago Poetry Center:

Faylita Hicks begins at 8:17 minutes.

You should know this city
thirsts for copper-
tinged sediment & meat
fresh from the workers
of the dying farms & fields.
Sick without a steady flux
of salt-leaking star-beaten
bodies, this city turns
in on itself & chews
on my sisters

– Faylita Hicks, “Before Moving to Austin”

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Watch Faylita Hicks perform at The Tobin:

Read Faylita Hicks’ interview with The Rumpus:

A Time and a Place: Talking with Faylita Hicks – The Rumpus

Faylita Hicks discusses her debut poetry collection, HOODWITCH.

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Hunter, Lauren 2017

Thursday, Sept 14, 2017
with Melissa Castro
Julius Meinl

this happens when i am between asleep
and you when my hair is wet
call me hurricane i answer to anything

– Lauren Hunter, “i am warm and powerful”

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Read this interview with Lauren Hunter from Entropy:

https://entropymag.org/lauren-hunter-in-conversation-with-vi-khi-nao

why i like to see my breath like smoke. why i like to
be the last body in a room. i’m gonna touch everything, someday.

– Lauren Hunter, from “the gospel according to tough love”

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Watch Lauren Hunter read here:

Lauren Hunter HUMAN ACHIEVEMENTS NC LAUNCH – selina kyle’s apartment

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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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Henderson, Tim “Toaster” 2016

Thursday, May 19, 2016
with Helene Achanzar
Beauty & Brawn Art Gallery and Think Space

Read this interview with Tim “Toaster” Henderson from SF Weekly:

http://www.sfweekly.com/exhibitionist/2012/12/21/the-write-stuff-tim-toaster-henderson-on-running-toward-the-disturbing

Read this article about Tim “Toaster” Henderson:

Tim Toaster Henderson and the Art of the Slam

In September P&W-supported poet Tim Toaster Henderson was the featured performer at Coast Slam in Fort Bragg, California. First-time slam judge Gene Lock blogs about the event (with a little help by series director Christina Perez).A poetry slam, we now know, has rules. Poems are orally presented, in front of a microphone.

Watch Tim “Toaster” Henderson perform some of his work:

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Toaster “Mondays” – ALL DEF POETRY: INKSLAM 2014 | All Def Poetry

Today’s featured artist is TOASTER. Evolving from a partnership between the Greenway Arts Alliance and Da’ Poetry Lounge (the nation’s longest running open mic poetry event), InkSlam is LA’s premiere spoken word festival. This year All Def Digital was there to capture the gifted poets that graced the stage.

Toaster – Martin

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Hoffman, Richie 2015

Wednesday, December 9, 2015
with Erika L. Sánchez
Chicago Cultural Center

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”

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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”

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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.

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Henning, Sara 2015

Thursday, September 24, 2015
with Rachel Mennies
Chicago Cultural Center

In your mouth I find the story of my body
you’ll trade for a psalm to grow in the snow,
psalm you’ll feed to starlings

– Sara Henning, “Aubade with Starlings and What Serenely Disdains to Destroy Us”

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Read this interview with Sara Henning from Rappahannock Review:

http://www.rappahannockreview.com/interviews/interview-sara-henning/

They’re calling them sisters, funnels grafted
to the same spine of rotating air, but I know
they’re lovers by how my jet turns wet
and reckless between squalls, by how the squalls
are raptured from the same nexus of desire.

– Sara Henning, “During the Tornado, I’m Thinking of Stars”

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Watch Sara Henning read for the Chicago Poetry Center, with Rachel Mennies:

The Poetry Center of Chicago: Six Points Reading Series

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Hughes, Ted

Bloody Mary’s venomous flames can curl;
They can shrivel sinew and char bone
Of foot, ankle, knee, thigh, and boil
Bowels, and drop his heart a cinder down;
And her soldiers can cry, as they hurl
Logs in the red rush: “This is her sermon.”

– Ted Hughes, “The Martyrdom of Bishop Ferrar”

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Read this interview with Ted Hughes from the Paris Review:

The Art of Poetry No. 71

Ted Hughes lives with his wife, Carol, on a farm in Devonshire. It is a working farm-sheep and cows-and the Hugheses are known to leave a party early to tend to them. “Carol’s got to get the sheep in,” Hughes will explain. He came to London for the interview,…

Farmers in the fields, housewives behind steamed windows,
Watch the burning aircraft across the blue sky float,
As if a firefly and a spider fought,
Far above the trees, between the washing hung out.
They wait with interest for the evening news.

– Ted Hughes, “The Casualty”

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Watch Ted Hughes discuss and read his work:

Ted Hughes interview and a reading from The Iron Man

Subscribe to Iconic: http://bit.ly/zVEuIY Ted Hughes speaking about putting his stories to music and he reads an extract from The Iron Man.

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Hughes, Frieda

The holes that filtered you before,
Like swamp dogs, open mouthed, are sleeping.
Their mud has sunk between your fault lines
And their bed
Rocks at the end of your corridor.

– Frieda Hughes, “The Smile”

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Read this interview with Frieda Hughes from TIME:

Breaking News, Analysis, Politics, Blogs, News Photos, Video, Tech Reviews – TIME.com

The daughter of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, and a writer and artist in her own right, talks about her work, her parents and how she eventually found out about her mother’s suicide

They are killing her again.
She said she did it
One year in every ten,
But they do it annually, or weekly,
Some even do it daily,
Carrying her death around in their heads
And practicing it. She saves them
The trouble of their own;
They can die without ever making
The decision. My buried mother
Is up-dug for repeat performances.

– Frieda Hughes, “My Mother”

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Watch Frieda Hughes read her work at the Ted Hughes Festival 2008:

Ted Hughes Festival – Frieda Hughes reads her poems

24/10/2008 – Ted Hughes Theatre, Mytholmroyd. Frieda Hughes reads some poems from her published collections “Wooroloo”, “Stonepicker” & “Waxworks” and from her upcoming “The Book of Mirrors”. This video is only an excerpt of her reading, I apologise for the quality of both image and sound.

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