Readings at Parkside:
Kimberly Alidio
The Parkside Lounge
317 East Houston Street
New York City
Sunday, October 15th, 5pm
Kimberly Alidio is the author of Teeter (Nightboat Books), why letter ellipses (selva oscura press), : once teeth bones coral : (Belladonna*), and after projects the resound (Black Radish Books). Her writing has been nominated for the United States Artists Fellowship and awarded the Nightboat Poetry Prize. She’s a 2023-2024 Emerge-Surface-Be Mentor for The Poetry Project, and lives on unceded Munsee-Mohican lands along the Mahicannituck River, otherwise known as New York’s Upper Hudson Valley.
Comprised of three long poems, Teeter knows experimental forms can be as intimate as mothering; knows we can understand languages we do not speak. From “Hearing”’s intensities of attention, to “Ambient Mom”’s familial Filipino immigrant soundscapes, to “Histories”’s careful scrutiny of the socially-sanctioned narratives and trajectories to which we are meant to aspire, Teeter’s lessons in listening reverberate across career retrospectives and heritage languages, colonial histories and domestic intimacies, reattuning us to what we’ve neglected to notice in our efforts to create a life we can understand.
Photo by Stacy Szymaszek