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Connor Cash Colbert
he/him/his
poet / songwriter
Connor Cash Colbert (he/him) is a human poet and music maker currently living on the traditional land of the Duwamish people past & present in the city of Seattle. He is a member of secular-worship/poem-rock band False Hemlock, an editorial assistant at Poetry Northwest, and recent poems can be found or forthcoming in the Washington Queer Poetry Anthology, Afternoon Visitor, and Dear Magazine.
About Their Work:
Connor's poems, like spontaneous prayers unfold in the perpetuity of thought, of remembrance, of awareness of the space-time in which a feeling travels. This is not just stream-of-consciousness craft -- that mimicry of the monkey mind that fills any space with it's anxious and Apocalyptic groping for a fix or an end -- but a following of the "tethers between us," a feeling out of the connecting ligaments, the relationships that tie us to each other, to the onions we chop for dinner, to "entire nations of people/and species and ecosystems." This is the perpetuity of possibility, the great chain of being that is "less where /are we going/and more what is it /that follows"
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