Next Reading: February 4
Theme: BAD DESIRE
Color: MAUVE
Song: “Maggot Brain” - Funkadelic
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Hearth Gods XXXIV
- Saturday, Feb. 4, 9pm
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- 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
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
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- 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
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- 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 #1: Caitlin Harrity performs poems by Jessica Fjeld, directed by Michael Rau. (photo by Jaclyn Biskup)
(poster: Chas Carey)
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