Paige Taggart

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Paige Taggart’s Or Replica

Paige Taggart writes dreamlike poems that seem to spill over the bounds of text: There’s a narrative heart, to be sure, but like John Ashbery’s meandering mandate that “the longest way is the most efficient way,” Taggart’s poetry seems as concerned with musicality and emotional animation as with linear narrative. This emphasis makes her a fitting headliner for Chapel Hill’s new Paradiso Reading Series, organized by poets (and INDY contributors) Laura Jaramillo and Marta Núñez Pouzols. The inaugural event kicks off with an evening of poetry attuned to the “sonic dimension of language” and “questions about subjectivity.” Taggart, who works as a jeweler in Brooklyn, is the author of five chapbooks and two full-length collections, Or Replica and Want for Lion. Joining her are Carla Hung, a poet and cultural anthropology graduate student at Duke, and INDY arts editor Brian Howe; the evening will conclude with a DJ set by Alex Chassanoff. —Sarah Edwards