Hearth Gods is a bi-monthly reading series at Jimmy's No. 43, at 43 East 7th Street in the East Village of New York City. Curated by M. Yates Crowley. Email list: myc [at] hearthgods [dot com]

Hearth Gods XXXIV

  • Saturday, Feb. 4, 9pm
  • ******************************
  • POET:I have news.
  • BEER:NOONS!
  • POET:I'm leaving you.
  • I'm going to live on the moonbase.
  • BEER:WOF?
  • POET:It is a clean, dead place where I can be free. Where I can live in my art,
  • which is all I have wanted to do in the years that are left to me.
  • ...
  • Are you going to beg me to stay?
  • BEER:WOULD IT DO ANY GOOD?
  • POET:No. No, it wouldn't.
  • BEER:...
  • [BEER begins to cry.]
  • POET:Stop that.
  • [BEER opens one Brooklyn Lager. Raises it above his head.]
  • BEER:TO MOTHERFUCKING EARTH

Next Reading: February 4

Theme: BAD DESIRE

Color: MAUVE

Song: “Maggot Brain” - Funkadelic

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Tinky Holloway reads “To Be an Artist in America” at Hearth Gods XXXIII. Written by Michael Yates Crowley, performed by Crowley, Chas Carey, and Josh Hadro.

Hearth Gods XXXIII

  • Saturday, Nov. 12, 9pm
  • ******************************
  • POET:One more year, one more layer in my carapace of sadness, one more--
  • BEER:DUDE.
  • BEER:DUDE.
  • POET:What is that...are you talking to me?
  • BEER:...
  • BEER:DUDE.
  • POET:Sometimes I think you don't understand me at all.
  • BEER:DUDE!
  • POET:Fine, that's too strong, but you know what I mean.
  • POET:I am giving you art and you are just...
  • BEER:DUDE.
  • POET:Exactly.
  • BEER:IT IS A WAY OF UNDERSTANDING
  • *
  • YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THE HEARTH GODS 6TH ANNIVERSARY ESPECTACULO!
  • Featuring:
  • - Knud Adams
  • - Lucy Alibar
  • - Patrick Barrett
  • - Chas Carey
  • - and Little Lord (a theater company)

“The Tide” - Poems by Jessica Fjeld, Adapted and Directed by Michael Rau

From POET NIGHT 2011 - more videos here

POET NIGHT continues tomorrow at Jimmy’s No. 43.

POET NIGHT continues tomorrow at Jimmy’s No. 43.

Poet Night #1: Caitlin Harrity performs poems by Jessica Fjeld, directed by Michael Rau. (photo by Jaclyn Biskup)

Poet Night #1: Caitlin Harrity performs poems by Jessica Fjeld, directed by Michael Rau. (photo by Jaclyn Biskup)

(poster: Chas Carey)

(poster: Chas Carey)