Written and Read

Alexandra Duprey reads two original poems.

Two original poems: "At the Poetry Reading" & "See the Stars"

"The Sound with No Name," previously unpublished.

"Just before we walk through the door to the bar, I hear a small boy scream, 'Look, they’re just walking.'"

"The Harmonica," previously unpublished.

"I had never before thought of music as something with divisible parts. It always just seemed like the air that humans needed to breathe – the air that they breathed through me to make me speak. "

"Penelope," originally published in CommuterLit in October of 2022.

"Beautiful he was in the braided lamplight over the drinks and the smoke and the cards, she remembers, beautiful."

Charlie Hope-D'Anieri reads his piece, "The Soup."

"The magnificent Beauceron has not received his due!"

An original poem.

"Ember Baby," originally published in JMWW in June of 2024.

“His father always told him that family was the one thing for which you sacrificed everything else. But he worried, with each passing day, if the love he felt for Madeline would be one of the things that he had to sacrifice in the name of family.”

"Theseus," originally published in Visual Verse Vol. 6 - Chapter 12 in October of 2019.

"She’ll tell you about her perspective, her layers, how she composes herself. She’ll tell you that she is both a subjective object and the process that creates that object."

"A Companion Piece" (original and unpublished)

"The city, he says, alienates the individual, makes him feel as though he will be lost to history unless someone records both the great and the terrible things he does."