Pics from the Moravian Book Shop Reading

Some pics from the 4/26 Moravian Book Shop Reading courtesy of my sister Jessica:





Showing the audience that shape poem:


Posing with my sisters:

Poem in the 2008 (Volume 7) issue of Center: A Journal of the Literary Arts

Check out the new Center: A Journal of the Literary Arts where I have the lead poem, “Mothers Eating Other Mothers' Young".

Reading at the Moravian Book Shop Saturday, April 26 from 5-6pm

Hello Pennsylvania friends.

I wanted to let you know about an upcoming reading in my hometown, Bethlehem:

Event: Moravian Book Shop Poetry Day
Date: Saturday April 26, 2008 05:00PM
Location: Moravian Book Shop, 428 Main Street, Bethlehem, PA, United States
Description: Poetry Day at the Moravian Book Shop to celebrate National Poetry Month.

I'm reading from 5-6, but here is the day's complete schedule:

11am-12noon: Lynnel Jones
12noon-1pm: Barbara Crooker
1pm-2pm: Ann Michael
2pm-3pm: Ann Borger
3pm-4pm: Art Freeman
4pm-5pm: Elizabeth Bodien
5pm-6pm: Matthew Hittinger
6pm-8ish: Open mic (open to guest poets and the public)
8pm-10pm: Open mic at Wired Gallery and Cafe (about a block up Main St)

Would love to see many of you if you can make it! Spread the word. Friends at Muhlenberg, feel free to encourage your poetry students/classes to come out to Bethlehem as there will be an open mic night that evening.

Poem in March/April "Nature in the Cracks" issue of qarrtsiluni

Click HERE to read and hear me read "Grafted" in the March/April "Nature in the Cracks" issue of qarrtsiluni.

I also love the meaning of qarrtsiluni; it comes from an Iñupiaq word that means "sitting together in the darkness, waiting for something to burst."

Anne Carson Follow-up: Watch “Possessive Used As Drink (Me): A Lecture on Pronouns in the Form of 15 Sonnets” on the 92nd Street Y Blog

Check out a video of Anne Carson and company performing the beginning of “Possessive Used As Drink (Me): A Lecture on Pronouns in the Form of 15 Sonnets” on the 92nd Street Y blog.

"the heart strobed superimposed"

As I mentioned in a previous post, my friend and coworker Liz Stephens commissioned me to write a poem in response to a short experimental film she recently completed with the composer Matt Sargent. The poem is called "Moving Image #1 [the heart strobed superimposed]" and is the first poem in a series I've been sketching out called "At the Museum of the Moving Image." Liz has titled the film the heart strobed superimposed after that last line in the poem.

The film was screened the evening of April 1st during the "Music and the Moving Image" program at the Hartt School in Hartford. The event was part of the Hartford Sound Alliance and Liz mixed in the audio of us reading the poem text while Matt Sargent performed the soundtrack he composed during the screening. You can check out more of Matt Sargent's compositions here.