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Kunz, Edgar 2024

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

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We’re breaking into your apartment
through your bedroom window.

The maintenance guy’s ladder
is propped against the sill.

I climb the ladder rung by rung,
it shivers, I try not to look down.

– Edgar Kunz, from “Fixer”

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

Edgar Kunz begins at 30:06 minutes.

                                                Three hundred

miles north, my father beds down in a van by the Connecticut River.
Snow tires rim-­deep in the silt. He has a wool horse blanket

tacked inside the windshield. A pair of extra pants bunched
into a pillow. He has a paper bag of partially smoked butts.

– Edgar Kunz, “After the Hurricane”

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Listen to Edgar Kunz read his poem “Salvage”:

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Karmin, Jennifer 2022

Tuesday, July 26, 2022
Poetry @ the Green with Jennifer Karmin
320 S. Canal

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one has to have
a reason for living
a guiding philosophy
a purpose
a goal

– Jennifer Karmin, “work: an ode for the human micropoem”

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Read this article by Jennifer Karmin:

‘Democracy Lessons’

Note: This is our last “Poetry and the 2020 Election” post, opening the field to poets beyond our psychosm. We thank heartily the Hudson Valley poets who contributed to this effort, and Jacket2 ‘s Kenna O’Rourke and Jessica Lowenthal for their continuous presence and care in making what we have done sing.

things
to learn
and why

see
a schoolhouse
built in 1910

writing
as practice
everyday

– Jennifer Karmin, “consider my dear”

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Kuipers, Keetje 2022

Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Blue Hour Reading Series with Keetje Kuipers and Charif Shanahan
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Fall open, unfold me. Hook and eye
undone with one hand, fingers that know
their way now in the dark. You contain
me: underwire circling my breasts in
half-bangle like the copper bracelets
lemniscating wrists of women who’ve
never worn bras, never held back
their multitudes.

– Keetje Kuipers, “Still Life with Nursing Bra”

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Watch Keetja Kuipers’ 2022 reading with Charif Shanahan at the Chicago Poetry Center:

Keetje Kuipers begins at 22:21 minutes.

Read Keetje Kuipers’ interview with The Adroit Journal:

Issue Twenty-Nine: A Conversation with Keetje Kuipers | The Adroit Journal – The Adroit Journal

The morning of our interview, Keetje texted me to warn me she was feeling “super vulnerable” in a melancholy way. As we began to wander the reserve, the melancholy dissipated, but vulnerability endured. I’m grateful for that. Vulnerability is, as you will soon see, precisely what makes this conversation so special.

I drive through the yellow ribcage of maples
arching the road, past the butch woman I want
to be, raking leaves in her front yard, hair
slicked back at the sides.

– Keetje Kuipers, “Spa Days”

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Watch Keetje Kuipers read her poetry as part of the Alaska Quarterly Review Reading Series:

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Kelly, Brigit Pegeen 1999

Wednesday, November 10, 1999
with Craig Arnold and Talvikki Ansel

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My father said I could not do it,
but all night I picked the peaches.
The orchard was still, the canals ran steadily.
I was a girl then, my chest its own walled garden.

– Brigit Pegeen Kelly, “The Leaving”

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Listen to NPR‘s discussion of the poet finalists for the National Book Award in 2004, including Brigit Pegeen Kelly:

The bees came out of the junipers, two small swarms
The size of melons; and golden, too, like melons,
They hung next to each other, at the height of a deer’s breast
Above the wet black compost. And because
The light was very bright it was hard to see them,
And harder still to see what hung between them.

– Brigit Pegeen Kelly, “The Dragon”

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Listen to Brigit Pegeen Kelly read poems from her book, The Orchard, on The New York Times:

The New York Times > Books > Audio > A Poetry Reading by Brigit Pegeen Kelly

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Keeler, Stuart 2013

Saturday, March 16, 2013
Redefining Art in Public Space: Service Media
with Joyce Fernandes and Allison Peters Quinn

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Read Stuart Keeler’s article entitled “Service Media: Community as Collaborator” in Public Art Review:

http://www.stuartkeeler.com/wp-content/uploads/Keeler_PublicArtReview1.pdf

Listen to Stuart Keeler present an art exhibit he curated:

Stuart Keeler, Director | Curator presents the New | AGM

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Kunitz, Stanley 1976

Friday, November 19, 1976
Vintage poster of Stanley Kunitz's reading at the Poetry Center of Chicago.

Vintage poster of Stanley Kunitz’s reading at the Poetry Center of Chicago.

My name is sand: I make
Dumbshows on windowshades;
Wring hands; dissolve; swirl back;
Play furious, grim charades.

Stanley Kunitz, “The Illusionist”

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Listen to Stanley Kunitz’s 1976 reading for the Poetry Center of Chicago:

Stanley Kunitz begins at 8:30 minutes.

An agitation of the air,
A perturbation of the light
Admonished me the unloved year
Would turn on its hinge that night.

– Stanley Kunitz, “End of Summer”

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Watch Stanley Kunitz discuss poetry and life on The Writing Life:

Stanley Kunitz on poetry and life

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Kumin, Maxine 1976

Friday, March 19, 1976

Lately I am changing houses like sneakers and socks.
Time zones wrinkle off me casually.
I have put aside with the laundry
a row of borrowed kitchens, look-alikes
in which I crack the eggs and burn the toast
but even in Danville, Kentucky, my ghosts
come along, they relocate as easily as livestock

Maxine Kumin, “The Knot”

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Watch Maxine Kumin read three poems:

Maxine Kumin reading three poems at the Dodge Poetry Festival 9/26/08

“After Love”, “Summer Meditation” and “The Final Poem”

The last grasshoppers
thinner than political prisoners
breast up out of the goldenrod.
They know they are flying into
the end of the journey.

– Maxine Kumin, “The Eternal Lover”

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Listen to the May 3, 2008 episode of A Prairie Home Companion featuring Maxine Kumin:

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Kostakis, Peter 1975; 1976

Friday, April 18, 1975
in honor of Frank O’Hara
Friday, October 15, 1976
Four Chicago Poets: with Paul Hoover, Lisel Mueller, and Bill Hunt
Previous Guiding Council member of the Poetry Center of Chicago

A twitch stung from above face
I make a fever pitch
of $25 in coin
to help the large mammal
building

– Peter Kostakis, “The Circle with a Hole in the Middle”

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The Poetry Center 1974: Pictured is the founder Paul Carroll, some of the original board including Lisel Mueller, Mark Perlberg, and John Rezek and the advisory board at the time (then called the “guiding council”) including Barry Schechter, Bill Knott, Paul Hoover, Michael Anania, Bill Hunt, Candance Rackenger, Rich Friedman, Peter Kostakis, John Rezek, Neil Hackman, Rose Simon, Maxine Chernoff. 1974 Photo by Norris McNamara. Photo donated to The Poetry Center by Mark and Anna Perlberg.

Vintage poster of Bill Berkson, Ted Berrigan, Paul Carroll, Alice Notley, and Peter Kostakis givnig a poetry reading in honor of Frank O'Hara at the Poetry Center of Chicago.

Vintage poster of Bill Berkson, Ted Berrigan, Paul Carroll, Alice Notley, and Peter Kostakis givnig a poetry reading in honor of Frank O’Hara at the Poetry Center of Chicago.

Kooser, Ted 2006

Wednesday, March 15, 2006
with Alane Rollings

I lean on the wind and the wind leans on me.
We throw our arms around each other,
trying to stay upright, old drinking buddies,

Ted Kooser, “Walking, Past Midnight”

Broadside of “Walking, Past Midnight” by Ted Kooser

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Listen to Ted Kooser’s 2006 reading for the Poetry Center of Chicago:

Audio recording of the Poetry Center Reading Series featuring Billy Collins, Andrei Codrescu, Ron Padgett, Lucille Clifton, Mark Perlberg, Li-Young Lee, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Anne Waldman, Yusuf Komunyakaa, Lisel Mueller, Ted Kooser, Paul Carroll, Jorie Graham, and Paul Hoover.

Audio recording of the Poetry Center Reading Series featuring Billy Collins, Andrei Codrescu, Ron Padgett, Lucille Clifton, Mark Perlberg, Li-Young Lee, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Anne Waldman, Yusuf Komunyakaa, Lisel Mueller, Ted Kooser, Paul Carroll, Jorie Graham, and Paul Hoover.

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The gravel road rides with a slow gallop
over the fields, the telephone lines
streaming behind, its billow of dust
full of the sparks of redwing blackbirds.

– Ted Kooser, “So This Is Nebraska”

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Watch Ted Kooser discuss his writing and routine from his home in Garland, Nebraska:

 

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Koo, Jason 2014

Friday, August 29, 2014
with Simone Muench and Roger Reeves
Chicago Cultural Center

Just popped the collar of my robe in this motherfucker,
I.e. kitchen, as I make some sweet-ass hash browns.
Is that the start of a poem? It’s barely the start of breakfast.

– Jason Koo, “Morning, Motherfucker”

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Roger Reeves, Simone Muench, and Jason Koo at the Poetry Center of Chicago’s Six Points Reading Series, August 29, 2014.

 Today I’m thinking of all the people not in love: I’m with you!
I’d like to say, though one of the conditions
Of not being in love is that you can’t hear other people not in love.

– Jason Koo, “Target”

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Watch Jason Koo read his poem, “Shopping with Mayakovsky:”

Jason Koo reads “Shopping with Mayakovsky”

Jason Koo reads “Shopping with Mayakovsky” Sacramento Poetry Center November 22, 2010

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