FATELESSNESS ON THE MEND, FATELESSNESS ON THE LAM. A poetry performance and choreo-chorus by Valerie Hsiung. Body and voice by Valerie Hsiung, Shreeya Shrestha, Ben Claus and Bo Hwang, Wednesday, May 8, 2024, 7pm
Join us on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, at 7pm at Counterpath (7935 East 14th Ave. in Denver) for FATELESSNESS ON THE MEND, FATELESSNESS ON THE LAM. A poetry performance and choreo-chorus by Valerie Hsiung. I was married to death as a child… Body and voice by Valerie Hsiung, Shreeya Shrestha, Ben Claus and Bo Hwang. Free and open to the public.
Valerie Hsiung is the author of eight collections of poetry and hybrid writing, including The pedestrian (Nightboat Books, 2025), The Naif (Ugly Duckling Presse, out soon), The only name we can call it now is not its only name (Counterpath), To love an artist (Essay Press), and outside voices, please (CSU). Her writing has appeared as text (Annulet, BathHouse Journal, digital vestiges, The Georgia Review, mercury firs, The Nation, Verse), performance (Treefort Music Festival, Common Area Maintenance, The Poetry Project), sound waves (Montez Press Radio, Hyle Greece), and other forms of particulate matter. Born in the Year of the Earth Snake and raised by Chinese-Taiwanese immigrants in Cincinnati, Ohio, she now lives in the mountains of Colorado where she makes fragrance & teaches at Naropa’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.
Ben Claus (they/them) is a poet, printer & bookmaker. They are the founder of sister C press, dedicated to printing poetry chapbooks & artist books. Ben is currently working on their first full-length book of poetry, a story of Narcissus and Echo bound tête-bêche. Ben’s plays have been developed at NoMads Art Collective (which they co-founded in Chicago), Carmel Theatre Company, and the Chagrin Academy for the Performing Arts in Cleveland. They are currently an MFA candidate at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics (Naropa University), where they assistant teach.
Shreeya Shrestha is an artisan who works with words, images, textiles, flour, and other multimedia forms. She is the 2022 Anne Waldman Fellow at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics where she is pursuing her graduate degree. Born and raised in Nepal, she now calls Boulder, Colorado her not-home. Her recurring obsession is exploring the intersecting space that connects her two lives: home and present.
Bo Hwang is an artist and writer working in poetry, movement and things so mundane, nothing happens. Her recent work, Squat Practice was a Finalist for the 2024 Essay Press Chapbook Contest. Her other work can be found now or in the near future at the Poetry Project, Wildness, Denver Quarterly’s FIVES and Bombay Gin. She grew up in Indonesia, spent years in Los Angeles and currently lives in Colorado where she is the 2022 Anselm Hollo Fellow at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School. She was also a 2022 Periplus Collective Fellow.