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Bards and Bourbon: A Reading With Poets Michael Morse and Matthew Lippmann
Saturday, October 30 • 7 PM
FREE
Presented by Typecast Publishing & the Letter Home Reading Series
Bourbon, in the early twentieth century, fought its way back from the gloomy depths of American federal prohibition. Poetry continues to scrape its way into the living rooms, radios, ears, and minds of literate Americans. Combining these two forces creates infinite possibilities and a multiplicity of manifold-dimensional experiences. Neuroscientists and physicists alike advise that no one should stand under the normal umbrellas of apathy when the combination of a good bourbon cocktail and a first-rate poem mingle in the same ether.
So, for this performative celebration, we are bringing together sour-mash-straight-bourbon-whiskey direct from Kentucky (in the cocktail, neat, shaken, or iced formats) and, for your listening pleasure, two wonderful poets. Of the utmost importance, which is to say, last and not least, we will also be celebrating the new release of Matthew Lippman’s book Monkey Bars (he’s one of the poets who will be reading). Lippman’s dear friend, the fantastic Michael Morse, will also donate his word-compositions to the listening audience. We will be scientifically examining the effects and minusculeties of what occurs when a Kentucky press undertakes the long journey to Brooklyn.
Matthew Lippman claims that he aspires to have his poetry to do many things: "I want my poetry to entertain the masses. I want my poems to be in waiting areas at the dentist office where a woman, a geologist, let's say, picks up my book and flips to page 36 where she finds a poem about a father and his daughter going for a drive, almost getting mowed down by a woman who runs a stop sign. I want that geologist to laugh when she reads the poem. I want her to be as compelled by the poem as she might be about a piece of granite she finds in Italy at an excavation site. I want the poem to make her feel sad and sweet and pure up until the minute she lay back in the dentist's chair to get a cavity filled and even then, for the poem to tickle her somewhere inside while the drill bit makes that whirring sound right before the DDS begins to do her thing." Lippman's second collection, Monkey Bars, is published by Typecast Publishing. His first collection, The New Year of Yellow, won the Kathryn A. Morton Poetry Prize and is published by Sarabande Books. He teaches at Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill, MA.
Michael Morse’s main poetic goal is to have the poems be musical as they provoke thought and feeling. Morse teaches English at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York City and poetry at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival and Gotham Writers' Workshop. He was a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown from 2008–20110, and his poems have appeared in various journals, including Agni, A Public Space, The Canary, The Literary Review, Tin House, Ploughshares, Spinning Jenny, and the Iowa Review. Work can also be found in Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama's First 100 Days (The University of Iowa Press) and on the From the Fishouse website (www.fishousepoems.org).
Saturday, October 30 • 7 PM
FREE
Presented by Typecast Publishing & the Letter Home Reading Series
Bourbon, in the early twentieth century, fought its way back from the gloomy depths of American federal prohibition. Poetry continues to scrape its way into the living rooms, radios, ears, and minds of literate Americans. Combining these two forces creates infinite possibilities and a multiplicity of manifold-dimensional experiences. Neuroscientists and physicists alike advise that no one should stand under the normal umbrellas of apathy when the combination of a good bourbon cocktail and a first-rate poem mingle in the same ether.
So, for this performative celebration, we are bringing together sour-mash-straight-bourbon-whiskey direct from Kentucky (in the cocktail, neat, shaken, or iced formats) and, for your listening pleasure, two wonderful poets. Of the utmost importance, which is to say, last and not least, we will also be celebrating the new release of Matthew Lippman’s book Monkey Bars (he’s one of the poets who will be reading). Lippman’s dear friend, the fantastic Michael Morse, will also donate his word-compositions to the listening audience. We will be scientifically examining the effects and minusculeties of what occurs when a Kentucky press undertakes the long journey to Brooklyn.
Matthew Lippman claims that he aspires to have his poetry to do many things: "I want my poetry to entertain the masses. I want my poems to be in waiting areas at the dentist office where a woman, a geologist, let's say, picks up my book and flips to page 36 where she finds a poem about a father and his daughter going for a drive, almost getting mowed down by a woman who runs a stop sign. I want that geologist to laugh when she reads the poem. I want her to be as compelled by the poem as she might be about a piece of granite she finds in Italy at an excavation site. I want the poem to make her feel sad and sweet and pure up until the minute she lay back in the dentist's chair to get a cavity filled and even then, for the poem to tickle her somewhere inside while the drill bit makes that whirring sound right before the DDS begins to do her thing." Lippman's second collection, Monkey Bars, is published by Typecast Publishing. His first collection, The New Year of Yellow, won the Kathryn A. Morton Poetry Prize and is published by Sarabande Books. He teaches at Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill, MA.
Michael Morse’s main poetic goal is to have the poems be musical as they provoke thought and feeling. Morse teaches English at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York City and poetry at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival and Gotham Writers' Workshop. He was a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown from 2008–20110, and his poems have appeared in various journals, including Agni, A Public Space, The Canary, The Literary Review, Tin House, Ploughshares, Spinning Jenny, and the Iowa Review. Work can also be found in Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama's First 100 Days (The University of Iowa Press) and on the From the Fishouse website (www.fishousepoems.org).
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