Write About Now featuring Kevin Burke!

This week we present poet Kevin Burke.

Kevin W. Burke was born and raised in the aged suburban stretch, industrial parks, and haunted forests of the Chicago Southland. He has found work in a grocery store, animal shelter, power plants, scaffold yard, coffee shop, windshield warehouse, film studio, bar, classrooms, the back of an ambulance, and most recently in poetry of the homemade flyers, frayed cables, and broken nosed laughter between punk-rock and hip-hop. Most recently he founded and is president of Timber Mouse, an independent poetry publisher, promoter, recorder, and partier. He likes hugs, Radiolab, “big-fat-dirty-bass”, and saying things that make people feel ways about stuff and recognize that there is electricity in their chests.

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Kevin Burke’s performance recorded at AvantGarden in Houston, TX.
Arranged in Bryan, TX

Music from Tha Silent Partner, Amir Safi

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Write About Now featuring Lacey Roop!

This week we present poet Lacey Roop.

Lacey Roop is a nationally acclaimed spoken word artist. In 2011, she placed 6th at the Women of the World Poetry Slam (WOWPS), has been the Austin, TX Individual World Poetry Slam (IWPS) representative as well as a two-time member of the renowned Austin Poetry Slam. Roop has toured everywhere from Texas to Canada and everywhere in-between. She has shared stages with numerous artists from finger-painting kindergardeners to The Wailers. She is the author of three self-published chapbooks and one full length collection, And Then Came the Flood, published by Timber Mouse. What is far more interesting about Lacey, however, is that she and her dog wear the same size pants. She also wears a key around her neck that unlocks the bottom of the ocean. Really, it does. She'll tell you what lives underneath, just ask.

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writeaboutnowpoetry.com
youtube.com/WANpoetry
facebook.com/WANpoetry
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Hosted by Davis Land.
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Lacey Roops’s performance recorded at AvantGarden in Houston, TX.
Arranged in Bryan, TX

Music from dustmotes, Garmisch, Liam Stew, The Imposibulls

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