The first reaction to Yedda Morrison’s BathHouse reading that took place today comes from Jeff Keene: A lone candle sat alone on the stage across from Yedda Morrison. Piercing the darkness, her words, the candle spoke to me in her soft relaxed, almost soothing, tone. “I am burning like fire, I am burning right now”,…
Category: Reviews
Casidhe McNulty reviews Rodrigo Toscano
EMU student Casidhe McNulty reacts to Rodrigo Toscano’s recent BathHouse reading: The November 9th reading of Rodrigo Toscano’s Collapsible Poetics at The Dreamland Theater was made successful by the performers, which included Toscano and five guest performers. They all remained well composed for the vast majority of the performance, in spite of the standing-room-only audience,…
Dan Hall reviews Rodrigo Toscano
Student Dan Hall reacts to Rodrigo Toscano’s recent BathHouse reading: First off, the venue was terrible. What was supposed to be an intimate setting at the Dreamland Theater was, in reality, about a hundred people (who really didn’t want to be there) crammed into a space the size of my living room. Now I suppose…
Kelly McKinne reviews Rodrigo Toscano
Kelly McKinne gives her reaction to the recent Rodrigo Toscano BathHouse reading: I read a few of the performances from Rodrigo Toscano’s book Collapsible Peotics Theatre before I attended the show Monday night in Ypsilanti. Although I already had a preconceived image of how the acts would be performed, my earlier reading was not nearly…
Kasandra David reviews Bhanu Kapil
The student reactions to recent BathHouse events keep on coming! This review is from Kasandra David: While waiting for Kapil’s reading of Humanimal to start, I wasn’t sure what to expect. As someone with a background in philosophy, I found the text rather frustrating because it pointedly avoided ‘primal questions’. Fundamental questions are my lifeblood. …
Renee Casey reviews Bhanu Kapil
Student Renee Casey reacts to Bhanu Kapil’s BathHouse reading: When first reading Kapil’s poetic document Humanimal, the reader is thrown into the historic events of Amala and Kamala, two feral children found in India, as well as Kapil’s search into the minds of the two girls and the affects of “humanizing” them. No doubt Kapil’s…
Dustin Wingett reviews Rodrigo Toscano
Another reaction from Dustin Wingett, this time in response to Rodrigo Toscano’s BathHouse reading at the Dreamland Theater: After reading through Collapsible Poetics Theater, I knew I was in for something…different when I went to see Rodrigo Toscano perform/speak at the Dreamland Theater. I also knew beforehand that he had picked a few EMU students…
Dustin Wingett reviews Bhanu Kapil
Student Dustin Wingett reacts to Bhanu Kapil’s recent BathHouse reading: Before Bhanu Kapil read for us in the Sponberg Theater, she held a quick question and answer session in the Carillon room of the library. What struck me was how open she was in talking about her personal life. One of the first questions was,…
Noelle Havens reacts to Rodrigo Toscano
Student Noelle Havens offers a brief reaction to Rodrigo Toscano’s recent BathHouse reading: Experiencing Rodrigo Toscano’s performances created a new sense of poetics, drawing out multi-vocal sounds within the arena of interaction. It was nice to feel a writer’s work and to respond to it in a cognitive way, making me grapple with my own…
Leto Rankine reviews Bhanu Kapil
Student Leto Rankine reacts to Bhanu Kapil’s recent BathHouse reading: A Way to Talk and to Write Bhanu Kapil has a very nice voice. It is the kind of British accent that doesn’t make her sound smarter (not that she didn’t seem smarter) but instead lent a rhythm to the reading of Humanimal and…