Tag Archives: Poet
2014 Featured Festival Poet: Tomás Q. Morín
September 9, 2014Tomás 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
2014 Featured Festival Poet: Rachel McKibbens
August 26, 2014Photo 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
2014 Featured Festival Poet: Saeed Jones
August 8, 2014Saeed 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
2014 Featured Festival Poet: Ishion Hutchinson
August 8, 2014Photo 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
2014 Featured Festival Poet: Tung Hui Hu
August 6, 2014Photo 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
2014 Featured Festival Poet: Marie Howe
August 6, 2014Marie 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
2014 Featured Festival Poet: Cathy Park Hong
August 1, 2014Photo 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
2014 Featured Festival Poet: Camille Dungy
July 25, 2014Photo 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