Chrom-A-Matic is a visual art collaborative born of late night cabarets. Featuring the talents of Cyn Moore, Trilby Hainstock, Susannah...
THE ECSTASY OF INFLUENCE: An evening featuring Heather McHugh
Heather McHugh is one of the most distinct and important voices in American poetry. Her words sing off the page and tickle the brain. This remarkable pairing of wit and hymn has transfixed audiences for decades, and in this reading we will celebrate the cerebral song of McHugh while taking a closer look at her influence on NW poetics. Heather will be joined by 3 of her most talented former and current students, Kary Wayson, Kate Lebo and Erika Wilder. We’ll hear short readings from each of these young luminaries punctuated by songs based on McHugh’s poems by spunky bluegrass trio The Half Brothers, followed by a reading from Heather McHugh herself. The event will be hosted by Jennifer Borges Foster. Chrom-A-Matic, a visual arts collective and on-the-spot painting troupe will be creating new paintings based on the poems and songs presented throughout the evening. These paintings will be autctioned off after the readings to benefit Heather McHugh's favorite charity, the World Society for the Protection of Animals.
Performing
Erika Wilder is a current MFA candidate in Poetry at the University of Washington, and Coordinating Editor of The Seattle Review...
Heather McHugh is Pollock Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Washington. She's taught there since 1984. Her many...
Jennifer Borges Foster is a poet, bookmaker, and the editor of Filter, a hand bound limited edition literary journal. She is the recent...
Kary Wayson's poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, Poetry Northwest, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Nation, The Journal, FIELD, Filter, The Best...
Kate Lebo can't decide whether her favorite pie is peach or cherry, so she makes a lot of peach cherry pie. She's a poet and pie maker from...
The Half Brothers have been playing indie-inflected bluegrass and new-fangled old-timey music since 2006. Replete with lush three-part vocal...
Links
Read more about the artists at this event.
Heather McHugh : Heather McHugh in Seattle Weekly
Kate Lebo : Good Egg
