Hello? Who’s speaking please?Richard Hamilton, A dedicated follower of fashion, 1980.

Hello? Who’s speaking please?

Richard Hamilton, A dedicated follower of fashion, 1980.

@1 week ago

John Ashbery selects my manuscript for the 2013 Walt Whitman Award

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Yesterday The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, Miami Herald, Salon, NPR , The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (where Walt Whitman served as editor) and other outlets reported that John Ashbery selected my poetry manuscript, Put Your Hands In, for the Academy of American Poets 2013 Walt Whitman Award

About Put Your Hands In, Ashbery writes: ‘Exactly a century ago, the Armory Show brought European avant-garde art to New York. We are still experiencing its consequences. Among the works on view was Marcel Duchamp’s notorious Nude Descending a Staircase, which a derisive critic wanted to rename, ‘Explosion in a Shingle Factory.’ Both titles come to mind as one reads Chris Hosea’s Put Your Hands In, which somehow subsumes derision and erotic energy and comes out on top. Maybe that’s because ‘poetry is the cruelest month,’ as he says, correcting T.S. Eliot. Transfixed in mid-paroxysm, the poems also remind us of Samuel Beckett’s line (in Watt): ‘The pain not yet pleasure, the pleasure not yet pain.’ One feels plunged in a wave of happening that is about to crest.’

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@1 month ago with 2 notes

Rachelle Rahme reads at Zinc Bar, Sunday, March 17.

@2 months ago
#Rachelle Rahme Chris Hosea 

Slumber Party, “Everyone Else I Know,” from their 2001 album Psychedelicate.

@3 months ago

“You Barely Move Me,” (1min, 38sec). A pop song I recorded recently. 

 

@3 months ago with 39 plays

I read a new poem, “White People Problems” (1 min, 50 sec).

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@4 months ago with 42 plays

Bob Dylan, “I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met),” 1964.

@4 months ago

Artist Kim Bennett has long collaborated with poets in works of printmaking, painting, and multi-media. Her work was featured in last summer’s ODE TO STREET HASSLE show at Bronx Art Space. These photographs show Kim’s work-in-progress that draws on my longer, as-yet-unpublished poem “Across the Boss’ Desk.”

@4 months ago
@2 weeks ago
#postcards 

Chris Hosea at Happy Ending

@1 month ago with 1 note
#Chris Hosea #Chris #Hosea #Happy Ending 

“Final Countdown,” Poem, Audio.

@2 months ago with 20 plays

Love + Communication

This postcard arrived today. Its anonymous author writes, “Tired + sad. This postcard was given to me at a reading given by someone I was once in love with — I was there with someone new I loved. Two weeks later, it ended. The person who walked me out of that darkness now has moved on + I miss him more than I thought possible. And I’m just so so so tired of all the excitement + tenderness that leads to loss. I just want to love someone who loves me + stays.”

@3 months ago
#postcards 

I read a new poem, “More After the Jump” (2 min, 50 sec).

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@4 months ago

I never meant to be the needle that broke your back. You were here, you were here, you were here—don’t look back. Cat Power, “He War”

@4 months ago

I read “Across the Boss’ Desk,” (8min, 12sec).

@4 months ago