It Goes On hosted by Jeanine Walker
It Goes On
hosted by Jeanine Walker
$2 wine
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 readers–sign 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 America’s 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. Nelson’s 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. She’s 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 Children’s 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.
