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When I go to the doctor, they hand me paperwork
with a chart to locate my pain. I can’t pinpoint it.
I “X” my whole body. My entire life.
— Glenis Redmond, from "I Stay Sick," The Listening Skin
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Poet Laureates and Publishing in the South
Martha Cinader speaks with Glenis Redmond and Anna Castro Spratt, the first Poet Laureate and Teen Poet Laureate of Greenville, SC and they also share some poetry. We also speak with Meg Reid, Executive Director of Hub City Publishing in Spartanburg, SC a
“I didn’t say I was right about things. I said I write about things.” –Oscar Peñaranda
Glenis Redmond & Anna Castro Spratt, Poet laureates, Meg Reid, Hub City Publishing
L&BH Podcast S2 Episode 5 – Poet Laureates and Publishing in the South
Martha Cinader speaks with Glenis Redmond and Anna Castro Spratt, the first Poet Laureate and Teen Poet Laureate of Greenville, SC about how it happened…
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“Forefather” - Glenis Redmond
for David Drake,
enslaved potter-poet
from Edgefield, SC
When the landscape does not bear black blooms
I reach my arms back for one
who flares with instruction.
Read what he wrote on Edgefield pots:
"This is a noble churn /
fill it up it will never turn."
From my childhood home
a mere seventy-three miles' ragged stretch
from Piedmont to Edgefield separates us,
I make him out through one hundred and fifty-five years
through the muck and the fog of pale deceit.
I let my fingers touch his clay brilliance.
See him, a solid figure, a South Carolina son,
a Literary Father with no daguerreotype.
I conjure his visage
in both verse and vessel.
Through the whorls of his fingerprints
I walk along the loops and ridges,
Sit between the lines of his etched couplets.
Press ear to the hum of hardened clay.
Hear him say, "Empty yourself.
Pry these tight spaces open.
Listen to the mountains and valleys
I withstood."
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it’s just me and my jicama and my bluetooth speaker and my glass of water and my copy of the listening skin by glenis redmond and my bathtub and my oatmeal and honey bubble bath and ambient 2: the plateaux of mirror by harold budd and brian eno vs the world
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FLP CHAPBOOK OF THE DAY: Hush, Puppy by Yvette R. Murray
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In “Hush, Puppy” a neighborhood, a city and memories are more than just a neighborhood, a city and memories. “Hush, Puppy” is a call and response praise song to the antimony of being #Black and #Gullah and Southern in Charleston, South Carolina and the world. This chapbook explores familial, societal and community #relationships with spice and a dash of humor. “Hush, Puppy” braids love and wrath into one lyrical plait. Meet “Hush, Puppy” at the intersection of the past and the future, sip the bitter tea of its history to explore where we are today.
Yvette R. Murray is an award-winning poet and writer. She has been published in Chestnut Review, Emrys Journal, Litmosphere, A Gathering Together, and others. She is the 2022 Susan Laughter Meyers Poetry Fellow, a 2021 Best New Poet selection, a Watering Hole Fellow, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. She is a board member of the South Carolina Writer’s Association and the Poetry Society of South Carolina, and a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators. Find her on Twitter @MissYvettewrites.
PRAISE FOR Hush, Puppy by Yvette R. Murray
“The past and the present are joined in the true Carolina of Yvette R. Murray‘s poems, and she has the bravery and the talent to make each poem a song that
you cannot forget even if you try.”
–Samuel Hazo, founder International Poetry Forum
In Yvette R. Murray‘s Hush, Puppy she becomes one with the Port City. This collection is a direct address, a love letter to Charleston from the black hand side. The poet takes readers on an intentional trek, while brilliantly negotiating the past, the present, and the future. With her, we leap the expanse from the Cypress tree centerpiece/ casting Gullah Geechee shadows/since 1685 to seeing the whole if only you would look. With these poems, we cannot look away. Our hearts become our ears as she rings the bell with her poetic manifestos.
–Glenis Redmond, Poet Laureate, Greenville SC
Hush, Puppy rocks, dances, strides, kicks, prances, and taps across pages that can barely contain such rich music. It is replete with heritage, history, family history, today’s news, and some language of the future not quite heard yet. But Yvette R. Murray hears it and gets it down pat. While you are nodding and tapping your feet you won’t notice her mastery of contemporary forms and methods like the ghazal, the pantoum, the bop, and the contrapuntal poem; you’ll be too busy enjoying these poems that you could almost dance to.
–Richard Garcia, Author Of Porridge
Yvette Murray offers a collection that is so shrimp and grits, so Gullah, so Battery, so Charleston. She invites us to taste, feel, and breathe her Charleston. She exercises her poetry muscles with traditional forms and lifts voices that Carolinians have heard all their lives. Let her be your tour guide through the pain and the joy. How grateful we are to share in her witness.
–Dr. Len Lawson, PhD (He/him), Author of Chime (Get Fresh, 2019), Editor of The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry (Blair, 2021), Assistant Professor of English, Newberry College
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Zora’s writing of the mule in relation to the figure of the black woman reminded me of this poem by Glenis Redmond
-YMA
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"Bless mama’s tug-of-war with each strand." -Glenis Redmond
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The legend of Cymbee from Glenis Redmond
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Kakutani, Man Booker, a City of Notions & more! Your Weekly Lit News Roundup by Laurel Dowswell
Kakutani, Man Booker, a City of Notions & more! Your Weekly Lit News Roundup by Laurel Dowswell
Michiko Kakutani is Leaving The New York Times
After 38 years as the chief daily book critic, Michiko Kakutani has announced her farewell. Indelibly interwoven with the profession, her last name even transformed into a verb – to be “Kakutanied”, she covered books across genres from literature to memoir, politics to poetry, and guided generations of readers. The famed critic plans to continue…
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Our History, Always Dismembered by Glenis Redmond
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Gullah Proverb: Take Cyear of de Root fa Heal de Tree
Someone’s singing my Lord
Cum bah yah
Someone’s singing my Lord
Cum bah yah
Someone’s singing my Lord
Cum bah yah
Oh Lord Cum bah Yah
not Girl Scouts
not Boy Scouts
not campfire songs
sung in rounds
for touchy feely moments.
Cum bah yah comes
from mouths of stolen ones
shackled in ships’ bellies
speaking many tongues.
They had to become one.
They sang us back into being
from what used to be
into what’s now: Gullah
What we don’t know
is killing us.
Someone’s dying my lord
Cum bah yah
Someone’s dying my lord
Cum bah yah
Someone’s dying my lord
Cum bah yah
Oh lord, come by here.
We petition you
to re-member us
limb by limb.
Save us from half-truths
we’ve swallowed
to keep us from knowing
ourselves
whole.
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Exorcise.
I blurred every line–especially with sex.
Dressed in men’s suits.
Smoked cigars.
Loved women.
Drank tequila straight.
Spread legs wide, when sitting,
to know what it felt like to take up space as a man.
Did not give a damn about who and what I broke, even myself.
Do not do as I did. Do not break yourself more than life breaks you.
— Glenis Redmond, from "Imagining Frida Kahlo as My Life Coach," The Listening Skin
#quote#Glenis Redmond#poetry#The Listening Skin#out of my collection#Imagining Frida Kahlo as My Life Coach
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College Radio and American Culture
Kate Jewell talks with Davyne Dial about her history of college radio Live from the Underground.
Poet Laureates of Greenville, SC, Glenis Redmond and Anna Castro Spratt speak on Banning Books.
Music and Spoken Word by DJs for Climate Change, Climbing Poe
Live from the Underground by Katherine Rye Jewell
“I didn’t say I was right about things. I said I write about things.” –Oscar Peñaranda
Airing on WPVM Radio 103.7fm in Asheville NC, and WPVMfm.org on Wednesday at 4pm, PST February 7.
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WATCH: https://www.nowness.com/series/poetic-license/the-tao-of-the-black-plastic-comb-irving-hillman
The Tao of the Black Plastic Comb
An ode to self-acceptance soundtracks a glimpse into the African-American experience
Bringing the poetry of spoken word artist Glenis Redmond to the screen, LA-based director Irving Hillman turns his lens on the ritualistic use of hot combs, a hair straightening practice in America's black community that extends to many areas of the African diaspora, and which reflects the longstanding pressure on people of color to reject their natural physical characteristics in favor of white beauty ideals.
“Glenis's poem captures an undertone of acceptance, inner beauty and forgiveness”
The film was made in collaboration with Motion Poems, an arts organization that partners poets with video artists. "This poem really resonated with me and I wanted to bring it to life," says Hillman. "It’s a reminder of the Saturday morning rituals I had as a child living in the South, with my mother pressing my sisters’ hair, while my father and I would wash the cars, all in preparation for Sunday Service."
"The more I worked on this film, the more I saw the depth of Glenis’s words," Hillman continues. "Also the way they capture an undertone of acceptance, inner beauty, and forgiveness."
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In Praise of Belonging Poet Glenis Redmond, who graduated from the same college I did a few years before I did, wrote a poem in honor of new citizens at a citizenship ceremony held at the Carl Sandburg House in Flat Rock, North Carolina.
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For poetry
Inspired by attending a performance and workshop by Glenis Redmond, to whom I owe many thanks for my reignition into the world of words
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Congratulations to Maura Stanton for winning the Finishing Line Press Open Chapbook Competition!
Maura Stanton’s first book of poetry, Snow On Snow, was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. She has published five other books of poetry, including Cries of Swimmers, Tales of the Supernatural, Life Among the Trolls, Glacier Wine and Immortal Sofa as well as a novel and three books of short stories. Her poetry has appeared in the Hudson Review, Yale Review, Plume, Cincinnati Review, Gettysburg Review, New England Review, Southern Poetry Review, 32 Poems, Denver Quarterly, New Ohio Review, Bateau,Numero Cinq, Plume and many other magazines. Last year her O’Henry Award winning short story, “Oh Shenandoah,” was read at Symphony Space in New York City and at the Dallas Art Museum as part of Selected Shorts’ celebration of 100 Years of the O’Henry Awards. She lives in Bloomington, Indiana.
Finishing Line Press 2020/2021 Open Chapbook Competition Results :
Thank you to all who entered the competition. We had a total of 402 entries.
Final judge: Leah Huete de Maines
Winner: Maura Stanton of Bloomington, Indiana for Interiors
Shortlist Finalists:
1st Honorable Mention: Esperanza Cintrón of Detroit, Michigan
2nd Honorable Mention: Sue William Silverman of Grand Haven, Michigan
3rd Honorable Mention: Glenis Redmond of Mauldin, South Carolina
4th Steve Lautermilch of Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina
5th Janlori Goldman of Accord, New York
Semi-finalists:
Sunil Iyengar of Bethesda, Maryland
Chad Frame of Lansdale, Pennsylvania
Nefertiti Asanti of Oakland, California
Mia Kang of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Margot Douaihy of Northampton, Massachusetts
Laura Foley of South Pomfret, Vermont
Kathryn Winograd of Littleton, Colorado
Jean McDonough of Rochester, New York
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