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songsforsquid · 4 years

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Upcoming Performances & Readings

** Wed Jan 15th, PERFORMANCE LAB at On the Boards (100 W. Roy St., Seattle, WA 98119), doors 6:00 p.m., pre-show performances and activities 6:30 p.m., 7:00 p.m. official start. Theme: An Augur: Future Visions. Part augury, part poetry, part collective unconscious telephone, the Vis-à-Vis Society will debut some new interactive performance experiments in the OtB stairwell and lobby, answering audience questions about the future from the night. This unique Performance Lab is co-curated by Charles Smith and Hatlo, and featuring new experimental works by: Vis-à-Vis Society (with co-founders Sierra Nelson and Rachel Kessler), Fox Whitney, Jéhan Òsanyìn, Sara Brickman, Shelby Handler, and Julianne Chapple/Future Leisure.

More info & advanced tickets: https://www.ontheboards.org/special-events/performance-lab-an-augur-future-visions

** Tues March 10th, Sierra Nelson & Kary Wayson Poetry Reading at Elliott Bay Book Co. (1521 10th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122). Kary Wayson debuts her new book Via Maria Materi (Burnside Review Press) and Sierra Nelson reads from her recent collection The Lachrymose Report (PoetryNW Editions) and other new work.

The Stranger Recommends (Rich Smith): "Here we have two wizards working with two different but complementary kinds of magic. Sierra Nelson writes bioluminescent lines using various personas and scientific guises to illuminate the dark corners of melancholy and loneliness. You can find her latest in The Lachrymose Report, which is the only poetry book I know of with an index that's also a poem in its own right. Kary Wayson runs a tight ship—terse, musical lyrics that unspool whole logics from a single word or sound. Very much looking forward to Wayson's new book, Via Maria Materi, which will be out from Burnside Review Press in 2020."

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poem-today · 4 years

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A poem by Kary Wayson

More of the Same

But even with my mouth on your thigh I want my mouth on your thigh. At the center bite of bread I want the whole loaf toasted, and an orange. On a sunny day I want more sun, more skin for the weather. I’m in Seattle wishing for Seattle, for this walk along the water, for her hand while I hold it: I want to tie my wrist to a red balloon. I’m counting my tips. I’m counting the tips i could have made. I want the television on, the television off. In the ocean, I want to float an inch above it and when my father finally held me like a stripe of seaweed over his wet arm, I was kicking to get away, wishing he’d hold me like he held me while I was kicking away. Listen to me. I want to leave when I’m walking out the door.

Kary Wayson

More poems by Kary Wayson are available through her website.

#kary wayson #american poetry #more of the same

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mrvaidya · 7 years

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Happy #WorldPoetryDay! This Poetry Off The Shelf podcast on Sylvia Plath's Fever 103° is just brilliant (also: #trypod!). Here's the poem itself.

#sylvia plath #poetry #poetry off the shelf

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jeffalessandrelli · 4 years

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Over at the Kenyon Review blog I interviewed Kary Wayson about her great new collection The Slip. Talk revolved around em dashes, poetic logic and its lack and Seattle, among other topics.

#suzanne buffam #poetry #interview #kenyon review #kary wayson

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poemspleaseme · 11 years

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POPPIES -- Kary Wayson

hair in the brushes, in the bread bag, snagged in my bracelet and clogging the kitchen drain. your hair and how it hangs, your face and how it falls —your throat, how thick: your feet. your fuse. your body and my body and the mark on the wall above the bed— one crow sticks and cracks—a black sip from a flask. how the grass grows geese from a goose. Water and the way it floats the gulls and bugs and boats. your will and what i want— which words when, where, and whether or not i’m home. you’ve got me ringing like a neighbor’s telephone.

#kary wayson #poem

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lookerlooker · 11 years

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More of the Same - Kary Wayson

#poetry #kary wayson

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ilookedalive · 12 years

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Kary Wayson's Sovereignty

Kary Wayson is a Seattle poet on the 2012 Stranger Genius Awards' shortlist. When I first read her poem "More of the Same," I had an unexpected and delightful, visceral and corporeal experience with it. This is my Devotional for that furious instant.

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you ascendant poet of lasting strange reading which devil must i worship to get a moment of tourism with you i’m accidentally saying my on purposes all the time i just wrote my name and it said never it was never it said nerves you are making this nervous i am for your information you inform my Word and Sound in holy quiet ways the game is all and i love playing all love darkness rising through auras thank gods it will stay some time for a lifetime she gives all in lines but once there is too much cosmos to catch right now only barely enough get it all down no time to be down vital to get down don’t hate anticipation i enjoy her huntress i hunt as well five spaces pacing three times eyes own erasing the option is you are silver haze things are change a question means i am on to you sometimes yellow box sometimes no clocks at all i love many black and color birds your horses are spoken for my stable is minded bodies can be anywhere adding left behind lines making them lie about lying book what i love it’s so infinite today

#Devotionals #Kary Wayson #Sovereignty

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songsforsquid · 5 years

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Upcoming Readings, Classes, & Events Spring 2019

* CASTALIA READING SERIES - Wed March 13th, 2019, starts 8:00 PM Location: Hugo House (1634 11th Ave, Seattle, WA) Readers: Areej Quraishi (MFA student), Alex Turner (MFA student), Dilara Elbir (MFA student), Sierra Nelson (alumna; poetry), Pimone Triplett (faculty; poetry), and Rae Paris (faculty; poetry). Castalia is a monthly reading series featuring graduate students, faculty, and alumni from the University of Washington MFA program. Doors open at 7:45pm; readings begin at 8pm.

* POETRY OF THE UNCANNY: GennaRose Nethercott & Sierra Nelson Reading - Wed March 20th, 2019, 7:00-9:00 PM Location: Hugo House (1634 11th Ave, Seattle, WA) Event Details: Join poets GennaRose Nethercott and Sierra Nelson for a fabulist, theatrical exploration of the uncanny in celebration of their most recent collections. Nethercott’s book, The Lumberjack’s Dove, selected by Louise Glück as a winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series, tells the haunting story of a woodsman who cuts off his hand with an axe—only to watch it shapeshift into a dove. Moments of Nethercott’s reading will be animated by an elaborate shadow puppet crankie. Sierra Nelson’s newest book of poetry, The Lachrymose Report, examines the tenuous tentacles that connect humans, plants, and animals, that tether us to the past—detailing the ways in which a body is changed by what it encounters.

* SEASONAL AFFECTIVE: GENERATIVE WORKSHOP - 1-Day Class Sun March 24th, 1:00-4:00 PM Location: Hugo House (1634 11th Ave, Seattle, WA) Note: Snows disrupted the original date of this writing class at Hugo House, so you have another chance to join in. Would love to see you there! Class Description: Brighten your writing palette and vivify your heart. Together we’ll harness all the ways the seasons affect us to write through the dark and back into light again using science, memory, experiment, and seasonally affected texts (such as Stevens, Glück, Dove, O’Hara) for inspiration. You’ll leave with new writing drafts and fresh experiments to try again at home. Slanted toward poetry but open to all genres. Let this generative class be the energizing lightbox to your notebook’s doldrums. REGISTER HERE.

* AWP PORTLAND OFF-SITE READING: BLACK OCEAN, POETRY NW, & ENTRE RIOS w/ POETRY-FILM HAPPY HOUR - Thurs March 28th, 6:00 PM-12:00 AM Location: “The Cleaners” at Ace Hotel Portland (1022 SW Stark St, Portland, OR - close to Powells Bookstore) Event Details: This event will kick-off with Poetry-Film Happy Hour hosted by NW Film Forum and Cadence Video Poetry Festival. Followed by all-star readings featuring authors from Black Ocean, Poetry Northwest, and Entre Ríos Books, ending with Anne Bradfield, Rachel Kessler, and Sierra Nelson performing as the Vis-a-Vis Society with a special interactive reading in anticipation of their forthcoming book 100 Rooms: A Bridge Motel Project (Entre Rios Books). Ending with a DANCE PARTY with Portland’s DJ Lapushi. (Then on Sat March 30th come back to this same location for the Northwest Micropress Bookfair.) More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1082551165269863/

6:00-7:00 p.m. Poetry-Film Happy Hour SET 1 7:30-8:15 p.m. Elisa Gabbert Erin McCoy Wendy Willis Maya Jewell Zeller Kate Lebo David Biespiel Sierra Nelson SET 2 8:30-9:15 p.m. Kary Wayson Laura Read Jake Levine (trans. Kim Kyung Ju) Heather Alfeld Shin Yu Pai Zach Savich SET 3 9:30-10:00 p.m. Vis-à-Vis Society interactive performance DANCE PARTY 10:00 p.m. - midnight DJ Lapaushi from PDX's Noche Libre Latinx DJ Collective

* AWP PORTLAND BOOKFAIR: Poetry NW Booth #6020 - Fri March 29th, 11:00AM-1:00 PM Location: AWP Conference, Oregon Convention Center (777 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR), Booth #6020 (Poetry Northwest) Details: I’ll be running the booth and signing copies of The Lachrymose Report. Stop by and say hi!

* AWP PORTLAND OFF-SITE READING: WITS ALLIANCE READING - Fri March 29th, 5:00-7:00 PM Location: Literary Arts (925 SW Washington St, Portland, OR) Event Details: Readings by current and former teaching artists working with Writers in the Schools (WITS) programs in different parts of the country, including Seattle, Portland, and Houston. Sierra Nelson will be reading from her new book The Lachrymose Report (Poetry NW Editions, 2018) and sharing about her work for Seattle Arts & Lectures' WITS Program in Seattle. https://www.facebook.com/events/literary-arts/wits-alliance-reading-off-site-awp-event/1487518394711715/

* AWP PORTLAND: POETRY NW 60th ANNIVERSARY READING - Sat March 30th, 3:00-04:15 PM Location: AWP Conference, Oregon Convention Center (777 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR), Level 1, Room #B113 Readers: Olena Kalytiak Davis, Troy Jollimore, Sierra Nelson, and Supritha Rajan, moderated by Kevin Craft. More info: https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/event_detail/16009

* POETRY I: Six-Week Class, Saturdays April 6th to May 11th, 1:00-3:00 PM Location: Hugo House (1634 11th Ave, Seattle, WA) Class Description: Whether a beginning poet or lover of the art, this class will introduce you to the beauty and complexity of writing and reading poetry, as well as the basics of the workshop model. We will look to image, metaphor, sound, lineation, and structure to write our own poems. REGISTER HERE.

* CADENCE VIDEO POETRY FESTIVAL - Thurs April 11th, 7:00-9:00 PM Location: NW Film Forum (1515 12th Ave, Seattle), Tickets: $7-12 Event Details: My video-poem “Cephalopod Meditation” (with cinematography by Britta Johnson, sound recording thanks to Emily Eagle) was selected to be part of this Cadence Video Poetry Festival showcase. More Info: https://nwfilmforum.org/festivals/cadence-video-poetry-festival/ & https://z-m-www.facebook.com/events/600744503671264/

* CEPHALOPOD APPRECIATION SOCIETY - Wed May 1st, 7:00-9:00 PM Location: Hugo House (1634 11th Ave, Seattle, WA) Description: Whether you are already a member of the Cephalopod Appreciation Society (est. 2000 by local poet Sierra Nelson) or just curious to learn more about the stunning and intelligent octopus, squid, chambered nautilus, and cuttlefish, come celebrate these creatures with us through poetry, music, art, dance, film, science, and more at this annual all-ages community event. (Free!) More info: https://hugohouse.org/event/cephalopod-appreciation-society-2/ https://www.facebook.com/events/1072083722974446/

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