Harryette Mullen, "Chasing Dirt"
From left: Laynie Browne, Harryette Mullen, Simone White
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Simone White, Harryette Mullen, and Laynie Browne joined Al Filreis to talk a six-page section of Harryette’s new book Open Leaves. The book , subtitled “poems from earth,” was published by Black Sunflowers Poetry Press of London in 2023. The section discussed by the group is titled “Chasing Dirt” and consists of two epigraphs, a prose-poem paragraph, a mixed media artwork titled Silent Talks by Tiffanie Delune, and a sequence of three-line poems across four pages of four poems each. Since PennSound’s Harryette Mullen author page did not yet include a recording of Harryette performing poems from Open Leaves, we asked her to read “Chasing Dirt” at the start of the recorded session. The pages from Open Leaves are available HERE .
November 20, 2024
Fuck poems
In extremis
Poems are bullshit unless they are / Teeth or trees or lemons piled / on a step.
… Fuck poems / And they are useful, would they shoot / come at you, love what you are …— Amiri Baraka
Poems are bullshit unless they are / Teeth or trees or lemons piled / on a step.
… Fuck poems / And they are useful, would they shoot / come at you, love what you are …— Amiri Baraka