This is the third installment of our collaboration with historic literary journal, Evergreen Review. Each event has featured writing and artistic responses to that writing on the theme of the elements. We started with FIRE, followed by EARTH, and this Saturday, we present AIR.
READ the selected pieces that are inspiring new song, dance, film and visual art for Saturday's show.
MEET THE ARTISTS who are creating new work to share with you this weekend at Howl! Happening in the East Village.
6 E. 1st Street
NYC
FEATURED WRITING:
"'Crooked' and 'Loose'" by Keller Easterling
"One for you, one for me." by Younis B. Azeem:
"Dear Sparrow, Take Me Home! and Not Yet Spring" by Haya Abu Nasser
"Ocean is There" by Izumi Ueda Yuu
"Pantisex Time" by Andrew Miller
"Deluge Over Winesburg" and Other Poems by Lily Wood
FEATURED ARTISTS, MUSICIANS, DANCERS, FILM MAKERS:
Ralph Denzer
Bugsy Gabriel
Stephanie Larriere
Dancers/Movement: Mikaela Brandon, Alexis Vinzons, and Uila Marx
Larry Krone
responding to "One for you, one for me" by Younis B. Azeem
Larry Krone works in the worlds of visual art, music, performance, and design. He is a member of Jim Andralis and the Syntonics and is head designer for House of Larréon.
John S. Hall
responding to "Pantisex Time" by Andrew Miller
John S. Hall is a poet/spoken word artist, musician and singer-songwriter. A new album from the reunited band, King Missile (Dog Fly Religion), is forthcoming.
R.B. Korbet
responding to "Crooked and Loose" by Keller Easterling
RB Korbet is the bassist in King Missile (Dog Fly Religion) and was their original drummer; she has played in and led myriad bands on guitar, bass and vocals in NYC since she was a teenager, ranging from hardcore punk, art rock, thrash metal, grunge and improv to heavy power pop. Korbet has also performed spoken word, reading prose from her works CASH and Tales of The Weevil, et al., and has created and performed original scores for Bertolt Brecht's 'The Measures Taken' and William Burroughs' 'Seven Souls'. Currently Korbet is writing a biography and working on '27 Bus Confessions', a gritty, humorous work of fiction that has followed her around the world since 2002 and may actually be finished this year. Korbet also holds a PhD from Kings College London.
Isaac Gerard
responding to "Deluge Over Winesburg" and other poems by Lily Wood
Margo Luxlun
responding to "Crooked and Loose" by Keller Easterling
Margo (luxlun) is a Multimedia Artist, Author, and yogi born and based in Brownsville Brooklyn, NY. A Stony Brook University graduate, where she studied English and Africana Studies. She began her independent studies thereafter in metaphysics, neuroscience, astronomy, eastern philosophy, and world religions. In 2019 she released her first EP "Rugrat". In 2020 she released her first chapbook “Gutter Water”. In 2021 she became a certified yoga teacher. Her experiences, studies and rituals have deeply influenced her work which is now a union of art, literature, music, meditation and movement
Bbylun.com / IG & FB: @Luxlun
Yoko O.K.
responding to "Dear Sparrow, Take Me Home!" and "Not Yet Spring" by Haya Abu Nasser
Yoko Oji Kikuchi (aka Yoko O.K) is a 4th-generation Japanese-Filipino-American artist, musician, map designer, zinemaker and New Yorker now based in Portland, OR.
Yoko-OK.com // IG: @yoko_okay
Helen Oji
responding to "Ocean Is There" by Izumi Ueda Yuu
Helen Oji, Japanese American visual artist working and living in New York City since 1976. Her work incorporates her Japanese heritage, dreams, humor, and her daily life.
Jim Andralis
responding to "Dear Sparrow, Take Me Home!" and "Not Yet Spring" by Haya Abu Nasser
Jim Andralis just released his 5th LP, Ghosts, featuring the vocal beauty of Bushwick Book Club's own Susan Hwang and Larry Krone whom has either already dazzled you or will shortly!
Susan Hwang
responding to "Beauty Vindication" by Jamie Kahn
Susan Hwang tells stories and makes collapsible things like songs and times. She plays accordion, janggu (Korean drum) and piano, but physical objects she can’t play, wear or eat intimidate her. She’s the founder/producer of international, literature-inspired arts non-profit, The Bushwick Book Club. Not a great vacationer, she leaves NYC for theater and with bands like The Debutante Hour (w/ Mia Pixley & Maria Sonevytsky), Lusterlit (w/ Charlie Nieland–nonstop songs about books!) and Soozee Hwang and The Relastics (neo-soul originals!). Susan plays accordions because they’re lighter than pianos (barely) and drums because it's healthy for a girl to hit things.
IG: @soozee3 / FB: @susanhwanglalala
Bob Holman
responding to EVERGREEN REVIEW
Bob Holman worked at St Marks Church Poetry project from 1977-84, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe 1988-95, and opened the Bowery Poetry Club in 2002. In between he taught poetry and performance at the New School, Bard, Columbia, NYU and Princeton.
He's a spoken word performer, professor, impresario, activist, founder of the Bowery Poetry Club, filmmaker and host of Language Matters (2015 Documentary of the Year, Berkeley Film Festival), to Bob Holman it's all just part of his job: poet. From slam to hip-hop, from performance to spoken
word to digital and film, he's been a central figure in redefining poetry as it exists on, off, and beyond the page.
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