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2014 Featured Festival Poet: Tomás Q. Morín

Posted on by Victoria Russell, Festival Assistant

Tomás Q. Morín is a story teller. His voice is dark and mysterious, rich with imagination and lilting with absurdity. A Larger Country, Morín’s first book of poems, conjures the image of a cloaked figure sitting fireside, spinning tales. He … Continue reading

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2014 Featured Festival Poet: Rachel McKibbens

Posted on by Victoria Russell, Festival Assistant

Photo courtesy of rachelmckibbens.com Rachel McKibbens’s poetry feels like a product of dark magic–not meaning it is evil or bad, but rather a miracle arisen from misery. McKibbens is a phoenix, proud and resplendent amongst her ashes. She starts with … Continue reading

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2014 Featured Festival Poet: Saeed Jones

Posted on by Rebecca Gambale, Poetry Online Communications Coordinator

Saeed Jones quips that he “grew up in the South, or survived growing up in the South,” as a gay man of color. Many of the poems in his chapbook “When The Only Light is Fire” take place in a … Continue reading

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2014 Featured Festival Poet: Ishion Hutchinson

Posted on by Michele Russo, Poetry Coordinator

Photo courtesy of IshionHutchinson.com “Once you are a part of a landscape, it enters your body and you gain a precision of language that is almost geological.” (Ishion Hutchinson, in an interview with Ashlie Kauffman on jmwwblog) Ishion Hutchinson’s incantatory … Continue reading

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2014 Featured Festival Poet: Tung Hui Hu

Posted on by Victoria Russell, Festival Assistant

Photo Courtesy of MinePoems.com Below is a video of Tung Hui Hu reading poems from his three books of poetry The Book of Motion, Mine, and Greenhouses, Lighthouses: Hu’s soft delivery beckons the listener to lean closer and pay attention, … Continue reading

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2014 Featured Festival Poet: Marie Howe

Posted on by Martin Farawell, Program Director, Poetry

Marie Howe’s reading of her poem, “The Gate,” opens a portal into her poetry. She has said that “Poetry, to me, is the story of the soul on earth, here and now. What it’s like to be alive, here and … Continue reading

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2014 Featured Festival Poet: Cathy Park Hong

Posted on by Michele Russo, Poetry Coordinator

Photo courtesy of Poetry Foundation For a small peek into Cathy Park Hong’s poetry, watch her read her poem “Ballad of O”: If you hadn’t known ahead of time that the poem only uses one vowel, would you have realized … Continue reading

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2014 Featured Festival Poet: Camille Dungy

Posted on by Michele Russo, Poetry Coordinator

Photo by Ray Black, University of Georgia, courtesy of PoetryFoundation.org To get to know Camille Dungy, watch her read “before her heart, a mechanical aperture, closed” which starts at 7:50 here: The poem risks heading into the world of cliché—a … Continue reading

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