Some highlights from our fall events season so far:
Mak Hepler-Gonzalez sketched CAConrad while I took photos of the poet during Exorcism: Reparative Rituals with the Poetic Blade
Cecilia Vicuña wove Poetry Assistant Editor Lindsay and the entire audience during “The Origin of Weaving” Performance (video to come)
Find upcoming readings and performances at poetryfoundation.org/events
‘“Our glitter covers the world!” This is Henry Ruschmann’s slogan, our triumphant inventor of modern glitter. Plastic, metal, grind it up, keep it in your shirt pocket in case you walk by a very sad place, then sprinkle a little red and purple with a touch of gold. Glitter will turn any unhappy thing around. Let me enter the murder scene after they have taken fingerprints, hair samples and photos of bloody boot prints, I can dust the carnage with a shimmering cobalt blue mixed with silver and emerald green. Glitter is not enabling denial of the world’s pain but instead helps us endure the bleak results of those who are in denial of how we need one another. If you have a scar or bent nose that has become the center of your life trust me when I say own it and apply glitter blush directly. Before you die join me in loving our flesh, loving our lives.’
–CAConrad, The Queer Voice: Reparative Poetry Rituals & Glitter Perversions
Chicagoans: See CAConrad tomorrow at the Poetry Foundation for Exorcism: Reparative Rituals with the Poetic Blade
41 
