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From the crowded streets we strut each day, to the midnight walks we use to clear our heads, People Watching is a new collection that highlights Chuck’s observational style of poetry. Using the faces he sees and interacts with as inspiration, Chuck relates to the everyday emotions that spark from the close quarters of society. Publisher: Alien Buddha Press Release Date: September 15, 2022 Cover design: Red "Chuck Harp's poetry speaks of people living in overpriced caves, howling madmen in the streets, and the friends, neighbors, strangers, and monsters hidden in plain sight that comprise this chaotic orchestra called life." — James D. Casey IV, Poet, Artist, Founder/Editor-in-Cheif of Cajun Mutt Press |
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This free poetry micro-chapbook is printable courtesy of the Origami Poems Project, a domestic non-profit organization built on encouraging the writing and distribution of poetry through events and free releases. How to Play Streets and Alleys is a short collection of poems surrounding the visions that come with the city in the summer. Brief scenes with familiar characters interacting with the landscape that shields and inspires them. Publisher: Origami Poems Project Release Date: August 16, 2021 Cover Design: Origami Poems Project team |
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Working Title investigates a spectrum of emotions: disillusionment, fatigue, anger, frustration, and indifference, and others through a series of poems that honor the Everyman. The speakers of the poems share the same face but not always the same uniform. They are workers from the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. What emerges is a painting illustrating the consequences of spending more time in an office than out in the world. The numbing nine-to-fives. The blinding blue light of computer screens. Working Title is a portrait of the mundane everyday of modern civilization in the western world. Publisher: Unsolicited Press Release Date: November 10, 2020 Cover design: Kathryn Gerhardt “It’s a book about people, how they find themselves being crushed by the responsibilities of job and family, and Harp is their champion, their screaming voice, in the dark." — Brian Alan Ellis, author of Bad Poet |
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What Must Go On delves into the art of performance. What is live performance? How does it fit into our culture given the current take over by Netflix streaming and Redbox rentals? Harp will tell you through lenses of multiple characters. From the lyrical decapitation of battle rap, to the pre-premier jitters of the theater, the collection swims its way through the various forms of entertainment and gathers up the many faces and feelings of each. It’s a variety show of dreamers, artists, and hustlers just using their gifts to get by. Publisher: Unsolicited Press Release Date: May 17, 2018 Cover image: Aaron Vasco Cover design: UP Team |
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Katcheen Tongues
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Katcheen Tongues is an art collective focused on fusing music and Chuck's unique form of poetry, wading in the waters of avant-folk and lofi psychedelia, and including mutual creatives and friends from Philadelphia to Los Angeles. Katcheen Tongues' newest EP "Letters From The Lookout" further experiments with the fusion of abstract poetry with a variety of instrumentation, this time including producer and musician Alex Ervin (Sleep Index and bottomshelf) to help form this lofi specific project. Releases:
Press: - Music Shelf With Mustard "Building The Shelf with Katcheen Tongues" - Signal to Noise radio show (Katcheen Tongues feature) "17 Oct 2022" episode" |
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