Pew Fellow Poetry: Emily Abendroth
We asked the 2013 Pew Fellow poets to share samples of their work. Watch Emily Abendroth read a selection from her poem "Always Hook a Gift Horsey Dead in the Kisser [An Invocation]."
What drives cultural practitioners to experiment, discover, and create?
We asked the 2013 Pew Fellow poets to share samples of their work. Watch Emily Abendroth read a selection from her poem "Always Hook a Gift Horsey Dead in the Kisser [An Invocation]."
2012 Pew Fellow Deron Albright is a filmmaker whose work spans documentary, installation, poetic animation, and short- and long-form narrative.
During a conversation at the Center, performance impresario and Center visiting scholar Kristy Edmunds was asked, "Why do you do what you do?"
The 2013 Pew Fellow poets—Emily Abendroth, Jenn McCreary, Sueyeun Juliette Lee, and Frank Sherlock—brought Philadelphia verse to the West Coast in early May, when they read at San Francisco State University’s Poetry Center.
2013 Pew Fellow Toshi Makihara's performance work blends percussion with dance-like body movement, exercising a rigorous, systematic, and practiced process of experimentation and repetition.
2013 Pew Fellow Kinan Abou-afach is a cellist, composer, and classical Arab musician born in Damascus, Syria, who performs extensively with Philadelphia Arabic cultural organization Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture.
Emily Abendroth, 2013 Pew Fellow
2013 Pew Fellow Paul Swenbeck is a visual artist primarily working in clay whose fascination with the macabre has filtered into his idiosyncratic sculptures, paintings, photographs, and installations.
We speak with 2012 Pew Fellow Bhob Rainey, a soprano saxophonist and composer, one half of improvisational duo nmperign, and leader of the BSC, an eight-member ensemble that uses both acoustic and electronic instruments.
Lee is the publisher at Corollary Press and author of the poetry collections Underground National, That Gorgeous Feeling, and Solar Maximum.