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yespoetry · 5 years

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Kate Leah Hewett: October 2019 Poet of the Month

The Gaslight Inn Is Closed For Renovations

in your car with the a/c on max

i play dj

to the type of conversation

that will wind us forward

to days that are long

and the safety of knowing that

love

not

transactional

once

we tracked the cycle of the year on our bodies

dimpled march to freckled august

now we regret not stopping for pictures

as we pass the gaslight inn

which is still in business

despite its name

and though it makes us laugh

we keep going

because we have places to be today

and errands don’t stop for seeping regret

the sun is setting by the time we’ve finished our tasks

and by then we’re ready to make amends

so we take the detour

of maybe forty minutes

to return

for the photoshoot

where i make you stand next to the sign

and you flip the bird

mug for the camera

in that way that makes me sing

soon i’ll hand to you the words i’ve written

in which time travels in circles

and you get circles tattooed on your existing circles

and we are mountain people

all horizons

hilltops and possibility

Kate Leah Hewett (she/her) is a queer poet, writer and live arts organiser based in Hudson NY. She arrived in Hudson from the North of England, where she spent a decade putting on shows in working men’s clubs, fields and roller discos and working with artists and musicians of many genres. She writes about queerness. Always. Kate is on Instagram at @kateleahhewett

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senorboombastic · 2 years

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This One Song… Harkin on Body Clock

Tell you what – we love hearing from artists when things go right. We equally love hearing from artists when things go dreadfully wrong. A song that was a piece of piss, written in 20 minutes? Or years in the making and a bastard to write? Whether it’s a song that came together through great duress or one that was smashed out in a short amount of time, we’re getting the lowdown from some of our…

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#Aaron Roche #Birthday cake for breakfast #Body Clock #Hand Mirror #Harkin #Honeymoon Suite #J.R. Bohannon #Jeff T Smith #Kate Leah Hewett #Nate Walcott #Pastel Castle #Sky Larkin #Sophie Galpin

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grandgrandgalop · 6 years

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Steffi Drewes, Daniel Poppick, Wendy Chin-Tanner, Kate Leah Hewett Saturday, February 2nd The Spotty Dog Books & Ale 440 Warren Street Hudson, NY 12534 7pm / free About the readers: Steffi Drewes is author of the poetry collection Tell Me Every Anchor Every Arrow (Kelsey Street Press, 2016) and four chapbooks, most recently New Animal (Dancing Girl Press, 2017). Her work has appeared in various journals and event series, including the 2018 Way Bay Poetry Assembly and postcard project at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. She is also the recipient of writing and art residencies at Vermont Studio Center, The Desert House in California, and the Wassaic Project in New York, where she debuted an original set of photo-based tarot cards and performed readings at the Wassaic Summer Exhibition: Vagabond Time Killers. Today she works as a freelance writer and editor in the San Francisco Bay Area. Daniel Poppick is the author of The Police (Omnidawn, 2017). His poetry appears in BOMB, the New Republic, Fence, Bennington Review, the PEN Poetry Series, and other journals. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Kenyon College, he has taught at the University of Iowa, Coe College, and the Parsons School of Design, and has been an artist in residence at the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. He currently lives in Brooklyn, where he coedits the Catenary Press with Rob Schlegel and Rawaan Alkhatib. Wendy Chin-Tanner is the author of the poetry collections "Turn" (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014), which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Awards, and "Anyone Will Tell You," (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019). She is a poetry editor at The Nervous Breakdown, founding editor at Kin Poetry Journal, and co-founder of A Wave Blue World, an independent publishing company for graphic novels. Some of her poems can be found at RHINO Poetry, Denver Quarterly, The Rumpus, Vinyl Poetry, The Collagist, North Dakota Quarterly, and The Mays Anthology of Oxford and Cambridge. A trained sociologist specializing in race, identity, discourse analysis, and cultural studies, Wendy was born and raised in NYC and educated at Cambridge University, UK. She is the mother of two daughters and the proud daughter of immigrants. Kate Leah Hewett is a poet, writer and music promoter based in Hudson NY. She arrived in Hudson from the North of England, where she spent a number of years working with artists and musicians of many genres. Kate doesn’t believe in working in isolation, and feels that collaboration is key in producing work that resonates outside of her own brain. Her writing draws on her own queer experience and the vital influence that the wider queer and creative community has had on her life. Find her at @kateleahhewett on Instagram.

#Steffi Drewes #Daniel Poppick #Wendy Chin-Tanner #Kate Leah Hewett #The Spotty Dog #Hudson New York #Poetry #Readings

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therealpedrolee · 2 years

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Shot4Shot presents Spring Awakening SATURDAY MAY 7, 2022, AT 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Young Ethels 506 5th Avenue Brooklyn, NY, 11215 "We're totally f***ed!" Shot4Shot is a drinking game with a pop culture problem. Part scripted, part improvised = all fun and heart! Improvisers are given a script and drinking rules then they're off. What happens when some folks who are dedicated fans of the source material are mixed in with folks who have never seen it? Throw in some shots, a singalong, and a mixed drink... That's how you get Shot4Shot! CAST Melchoir/Boys... Lauren Kneteman Wendla/Girls... William Pope Moritz/Boys... Leah Evans Isle/Girls... Willem Brian Smith Martha/Girls... Nick Carrillo Hanschen/Boys... Kathryn Fabbroni Ernst/Boys... Audrey Marie Sprouse Georg/Boys... Megan Sugrue Otto/Boys... Janice McIntyre Anna/Girls... Marcus Haugen Thea/Girls... Pedro Lee Frau Bergman/Dieter... Ro Rovito Frau Gabor/Father Kaulbach/Schmidt/Boys... Heather Jewels Booth Herr Sonnenstich/Doctor von Brausepulver/Drink Ref... Jess Klafter Herr Gabor/Father Kaulbach... Kristin ElliottFräulein Großebüstenhalter/Reinhold... Kate Martino Rupert/Boys...Marybess Pritchett Herr Knochenbruch/Herr Rilow/Girls...Jason Hewett Fräulein Knuppeldick/Girls...Donovan Santiago Ulbrecht/Boys... Emily Claypoole Herr Stiefel/Stage Directions/Boys... Klara Gribetz Free to enter. Cheap drinks all night! “We see God and the devil making fools of each other, and we nurture in ourselves the absolutely unshakable conviction that both of them are drunk.” https://www.instagram.com/p/CdRb6qsp6Ho/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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therealpedrolee · 2 years

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yespoetry · 5 years

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Here's What Resonated with You in 2019

While we don't believe in best of lists, we went through our content over the past year and saw what resonated most with you, our readers, across our different genres and sections. Here's what you loved:

Photography: Joanna Valente - “The #SURVIVOR Photo Series Explores What It Looks Like to Survive Trauma”

Fiction: Alex Z. Salinas - “The Savage Screwball”

“Mom stayed quiet for a few seconds.

“I know, mijo,” she said softly. “I know. But me and Lance—”

I hung up on her. It wasn’t that Lance was white—he was—or that he’d become Mom’s boyfriend six months after Dad’s heart attack. It was his predilection to butt into our family affairs, give his two-and-a-half cents when we were good on the money. Lance wasn’t a bad guy, I don’t think, but that didn’t mean I didn’t think him a snake slithering on my property. White people, like snakes, have no propriety when it comes to death and property.

I pictured myself stomping on a snake’s head then sipped my black coffee. It was now lukewarm. It had lost its desired effect—to burn my tongue.

I went back to my book. I read a sentence six times over. I couldn’t comprehend it for the life of me. Bolaño wasn’t Balzac, but I might as well have been blind.

I put the book down again and closed my eyes. I focused in on the song playing in the back. “Maria Maria” by Carlos Santana. I started bobbing my head and was immediately brought back to middle school football, being on bus rides with the boys. Falling asleep, drooling.”

#MeToo Series: Vivien Yap - “Muscle Memory”

“When he reaches out,

I think of science,

I think of you.

Intimacy / Power / Relief

For when a human flexes his arm,

he hardens,

for someone else to yield.”

Chapbook: Haunted: Tarot Poems

Music: You Need This Queer Playlist in Your Life

Poet of the Month series - Kate Leah Hewett: October 2019 Poet of the Month

“we keep going

because we have places to be today

and errands don’t stop for seeping regret”

Essay: Stephanie Valente - “Guide to Writing Poetry Spells”

“Poems are magic. Reading a good, no great, poem is a certain time of magic. The words wrap and weave around you all on their own. It's infatuating, syrupy, and even intoxicating. It's a bit of glamour for our spirit. It's as if you are enchanted by just mere words.

In fact, poems are so powerful that they transcend ordinary life into something a little bit more. Poems are art. Poems are truth. Poems are fantasies. Poems are wishes. Poems are daydreams. Poems are manifestations. Poems are mantras. Poems are healing. Poems are spells. So, why not write your own spell? A spell that sounds like, acts like, and there fore becomes a poem?

Weave magic in your everyday life with a personal poem. Cast a spell with a poem. Cover your poem with intentions and sigils. Shout it from the rooftops. Or, tuck your poem into a tiny piece of paper and keep it underneath your clothes, or maybe, even in a locket. How sublime is that? Totally sublime. And, completely entrenched in your own personal power. That's magic.“

Poetry: Andrew Hahn: A Faggot Learns to Be Christ-Like

“they need all of me

all at once bc my body is the temple & the light

my pussy is their prayer

my body my heart my church doors throb from man’s desire

i told them not to worry about hurting me

a good boy sacrifices his body”

Interview: Maryan Nagy Captan

“For the past few years, I’ve been enamored with the work of Julie Speed, an oil painter and collage artist based in Marfa, TX. My current favorite piece is titled “Eyes to See.” How does it describe me? I like to think that I am both figures in this painting. As a writer and performance poet, I get self conscious about overwriting or being too insistent in the work. As a reader and citizen of the world, I sometimes feel overwhelmed by the amount of information and insight that we’re expected to consume regularly. It can be suffocating.

However, behind all the chaos of humanity is a bird and a tree and an open window. I think this aspect speaks strongly to my desire to always find a sliver of hope in everything: an escape, a reminder, a moment of joy.”

Writing Prompts: Use Fantasies and Dreams

Review: Angelo Colavita - “Called into Question: A Review of Samantha Giles’ ‘Total Recall’”

“I moved through this book carefully, light-footed, as though convinced that any sudden movement would wake a sleeping monster, and as I did so I realized the genius behind Giles’ writing: she writes as though she does not have to convince us of anything. Instead, through her prose and deliberate, gradual revelations (and sometimes redactions) of information, she creates within the reader the same self-doubt the narrator experiences. We are convinced of the narrative’s actuality by mode of our own empathy. We experience the same silencing fear running astride a craving for justice. We are at once the helpless victim, the horrified voyeur, and, what’s more unsettling, the violator.

To lose yourself in this book is to bear witness, firsthand, to the victim’s struggle with truth and with self. When what the mind is capable of recalling is called into question by even the speaker herself, we feel violated. This is not a game the author plays, but a necessary deception. After all, our memory, as a function of the mind, defines our identity, composes our history. What are we at all if not products of our minds?”

Art: Kerry Rawlinson

Wellness: Joanna C. Valente - “8 Things That Might Make You Happier & Get You Off the Internet”

“Schedule phone dates with friends

In an effort to get away from the internet, I try to talk on the phone more with friends. Because of schedules and location, it’s not always possible to hang out in person, but phones (especially video chatting) can be a great way to connect with someone and be present, even if just for five minutes.

Making ourselves available and mindful is how we can stay in touch and maintain our relationships. We don’t need epic catch ups; rather, I try to think of it this way: If I can’t find a few minutes for someone, what am I doing that’s so important? Why not?”

#special feature

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