Pandemic Poems
Three issues of pandemic poetry are now online via North of Oxford. I have three poems in the first issue. One Two Three
Poet and Artist in Seattle
Three issues of pandemic poetry are now online via North of Oxford. I have three poems in the first issue. One Two Three
Two of my latest reviews are now in the print edition of Rain Taxi, now available for purchase. Earth by Hannah Brooks-Motl Codex by Joshua Lew McDermott Both are excellent books. Please consider reading them and reading what I wrote about them!
I’m excited to relay that my friend Maung Day’s short prose poems have found a home at the magazine for Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s Transpacific Literary Project. “There are cities in his scabs: Prose poems” can be read in their mystery and mystification here.
On January 31, 2020, Sherwin Bitsui with Elee Kraljii Gardiner read at the Richard Hugo House and I had the pleasure of listening from the front row. Below are the tracks from this event, which included a conversation/Q&A after each poet read. Part 1: Elee Part 2: Sherwin Part 3: Conversation
From the January 17, 2020 event at Seattle Town Hall: A Scribe Called Quess?: Dismantling the Colonial Legacy. Learn more about Quess at his website. Nikkita Oliver performed poetry and interviewed Quess after the talk. The recording (MP3) is 101 minutes:
The 2020 MLA Offsite Reading, which featured mostly poetry, occurred at Town Hall Seattle yesterday. There were many readers, and most of them read for 2 minutes or less. The event was broken into three parts, with three hosts. The recording, which I made happen with my new H6, is below. Audio is minimally edited, as usual, but at least complete. I have listed all of the poets along with the host. The event is
Continue readingPoetry Recording: The 2020 MLA Offsite Reading
Now up to be read etc on North of Oxford, a review of Klassnik’s new collection, A SLOW BOILING BEACH. … Continue readingNew Review: Rauan Klassnik’s A SLOW BOILING BEACH
Cambodian poet Chheangly Yeng has begun collaborating with other writers and producing video poetry on his YouTube page. … Continue readingNew Video Poetry: Chheangly Yeng
A new album of ambient, highly-poetic music is now out by the French multidisciplinary artist Sandra Moussempes. … Continue readingNew Work from Sandra Moussempes: Vox Museum
A recording of the poet and musician, performing at the Richard Hugo House in Seattle on 9/22/19. … Continue readingNew Audio Recording: Nathaniel Mackey and Marty Ehrlich at Hugo House
New Release: Like salt. Like a spine. … Continue readingNew Release and eBook: Like salt. Like a spine.
Via Yellow Rabbits.
This is an older recording I just found floating around my desktop. It originally was recorded back in March.
Recorded on Sunday, 10/14/18 at Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle.
Written about the European trip I took with my mother in June, 2018.