As artists take to livestreams and videos, we’re documenting the new performance archive emerging before our eyes. This edition features everything from a guy playing bass with Styrofoam to new quarantine-specific songs by Django Haskins.
Poetry
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A Ritual for Reading Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s “Dub: Finding Ceremony”
The Durham-based author and scholar (and INDY columnist) completes a sweeping poetic trilogy. Turn the pages. Drink the water. Breathe.
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The North Carolina Book Festival Just Added a Big Draw for Music Fans
In addition to more literary excitement, the festival’s second wave of programming features a local-music leading light who’s sure to perk up your ears.
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All the World’s a Cage in Jessica Q. Stark’s “Savage Pageant”
The poetry collection covers a lot of ground—psychogenic disorders, ghosts, a nuclear meltdown—but it centers on Jungleland, a now-defunct zoo for Hollywood show animals.
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19 People of 2019: Jaki Shelton Green
North Carolina’s poet laureate is fostering a new generation of poets in the state’s neglected reaches
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Would You Pay $45 for a Month of Sweet, Surreal Dreams?
If so, and you live in Durham, the itinerant poet Mathias Svalina has you covered for November. Of course, nightmares cost a little extra.
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Acclaimed Poet Ocean Vuong’s Novel Is a Beautiful, Complex Vantage on Motherlands and Mothers
“On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” explores generational trauma, war violence, queer masculinity, and the precarious of immigrant experience via letters to Vuong’s mother.
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Raleigh Poet Tyree Daye Joins the Ranks of Terrance Hayes and Tracy K. Smith
The River Hymns author wins a 2019 Whiting Award, joining a distinguished literary line of prior honorees.
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Celebrate International Women’s Day Around the Triangle
Several events on the weekend of March 8 lift up women’s voices, from FRANK Gallery to NCMA.
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North Carolina Book Festival Author Hanif Abdurraqib Builds A Tribe Called Quest the Monument It Deserves
Abdurraqib, author of Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest, appears at Kings on Sunday afternoon.