It Goes On hosted by Jeanine Walker
It Goes On
hosted by Jeanine Walker
$2 wineÂ
poetry readings by Quenton Baker, Paul Hlava Ceballos, Sierra Nelson, and Ann Teplick
Thursday, December 12, 7pm
doors & open mic sign up at 6pm
Hugo House is delighted to partner with poet Jeanine Walker and mixed media artist Aaron Counts to bring to the Hugo House stage a new reading series, It Goes On! It Goes On features $2 glasses of wine, $8 bottles, and invaluable words. Our second reading of the series stars local poetry legends Quenton Baker, Paul Hlava Ceballos, Sierra Nelson, and Ann Teplick. And you! On the open mic, following the reading (limit 10 readersâsign ups start at 6). Come on out to our cozy cabaret-style theater to partake in the poetry, wine, and full-on fall fun.
Quenton Baker is a poet, educator, and Cave Canem fellow. Their current focus is black interiority and the afterlife of slavery. Their work has appeared in The Offing, Jubilat, Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. They are a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and the recipient of the 2018 Arts Innovator Award from Artist Trust. They were a 2019 Robert Rauschenberg Artist in Residence and a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. They are the author of we pilot the blood (The 3rd Thing, 2021) and ballast (Haymarket Books, 2023).
Paul Hlava Ceballos is the author of banana [ ], winner of the AWP Prize for Poetry and the Poetry Society of Americaâs First Book Award, also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. His collaborative chapbook, Banana [ ] / we pilot the blood, shares pages with Quenton Baker and Christina Sharpe. He is a CantoMundo fellow and has been featured on the Poetry Magazine Podcast and in The Stranger. He is the Poetry Editor of the Seattle Met and practices echocardiography.
Sierra Nelson is a Seattle-based poet, lyric essayist, and multimedia performance artist, collaborating as the Vis-a-Vis Society and The Typing Explosion. Nelsonâs books include The Lachrymose Report (PoetryNW Editions) and collaborative I Take Back the Sponge Cake (Rose Metal Press) with artist Loren Erdrich, and she edited the cephalopod-inspired anthology Three Hearts (World Enough Writers). A MacDowell Fellow and Carolyn Kizer Prize winner, her poems have appeared in journals and anthologies including the Cascadia Field Guide and I Sing the Salmon Home, as well on King County Metro Buses, the Seattle Aquarium, and in the Slovenian Natural History Museum.
Ann Teplick is a poet, playwright, prose writer, and teaching artist, with an MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. For twenty-five years she has written with youth in hospitals, psychiatric units, juvenile detention centers, public schools, and art non-profits. Sheâs a Jack Straw and Hedgebrook alum, and has received funding for creative projects from Artist Trust, 4Culture, Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, and The Society of Childrenâs book writers and Illustrators. Her writing has appeared in Tahoma Literary Review, Raven Chronicles, Crab Creek Review, The Louisville Review, and her plays have been showcased in Washington, Oregon, and Nova Scotia.
Paul Hhlava Ceballos
Paul Hlava Ceballos has received fellowships from CantoMundo, Artist Trust, and the Poets House. His work has been published in POETRY, Pleiades, Triquarterly, Poetry Northwest, and BOMB, among other journals and newspapers. His collaborative chapbook, Banana [ ] / we pilot the blood shares pages with Quenton Baker, Dr. Christina Sharpe, and Torkwase Dyson. He received his MFA from New York University and currently lives in Seattle.
Ann Teplick
Ann Teplick is a poet, playwright, and prose writer with an MFA in creative writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. For twenty-three years, sheâs been a teaching artist in Seattle public schools; Hugo House; Coyote Central; and Pongo Teen Writing, at King Co. juvenile detention and the Washington State psychiatric hospital. She has received funding from Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, 4 Culture, Artist Trust, and the Society of Childrenâs Book Writers and Illustrators. She is also a Hedgebrook and Jack Straw alumna.
Jeanine Walker
Jeanine Walker is the author of The Two of Them Might Outlast Me (2022). She has received writing fellowships from Artist Trust, the Jack Straw Cultural Center, Wonju, UNESCO City of Literature, and Inprint. Her work has appeared in Bennington Review, New Ohio Review, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. A poet with a Ph.D. in creative writing from the University of Houston, Jeanine is a long-time poetry teacher and most recently taught English at Kangwon National University in Chuncheon, South Korea.
Describe your teaching style.
Positive, fun, and generous, I love to make my students feel welcome and let them know it's important to me that they're there.
Sierra Nelson
Sierra Nelson is a poet, president of Seattleâs Cephalopod Appreciation Society, and co-founder of literary performance art groups The Typing Explosion and Vis-Ă -Vis Society. Her poetry books include The Lachrymose Report (PoetryNW Editions, 2018), lyrical adventure I Take Back the Sponge Cake made with visual artist Loren Erdrich (Rose Metal Press), and forthcoming Vis-Ă -Vis Society collaboration 100 Rooms: A Bridge Motel Project (Entre Rios Books). Recently Nelsonâs poems accompanying ichthyologist Adam Summerâs fish skeleton photographs were exhibited at the Ljubljana Natural History Museum and Piran Aquarium in Slovenia.
Quenton Baker
Quenton Baker is a poet, educator, and Cave Canem fellow. Their current focus is black interiority and the afterlife of slavery. Their work has appeared in The Offing, Jubilat, Vinyl, The Rumpus and elsewhere. They are a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and the recipient of the 2018 Arts Innovator Award from Artist Trust. They were a 2019 Robert Rauschenberg Artist in Residence and a 2021 NEA Fellow. They are the author of we pilot the blood (The 3rd Thing, 2021) and ballast (Haymarket Books, 2023).
