Noah's poems, selected by Khadijah Queen in this year's
summer residency contest, are a veritable history
of body parts and healing.
Written through deistic perspectives,
through worlds of creators, creation myths, motives,
prayers, trials, defenses.
As Khadijah Queen wrote in her final selection of Noah's work,
"Every line in every poem belongs where
it is, and yet surprises."
That's a nice thing to say about some poems.
So in Noah's work, we get echoes of Robert Hass,
of James Wright.
We get grandiosity and profundity,
all housed in the very local.
Noah writes, "They want to keep me from it,
the terror of having a body and knowing it means so little."
So we've been looking forward to this reading
for a good little while.
I'm really glad that we get to sit back and relax.
So first, help me welcome up Noah.