Marj Hahne | Poet/Writer

Poet / Writer

To the poet, the human community is like the community of birds to a bird, singing to each other.
Love is one of the reasons we are singing to one another, love of language itself,
love of sound, love of singing itself, and love of the other birds.

— Sharon Olds

In seventh grade, I stumbled across Sylvia Plath’s Ariel in the school library. I was too young to fully understand the existential grapplings heavy in her poems, but I knew that those poems said something in what they didn’t say. That presence of absence is, I think, what primarily draws me to poetry — the reading and writing of it. And what inspires me again and again, as a maker of language-art, is that I can, with the very same medium I use to order a pizza, attempt to craft an expression — from words, sounds, and silence — that precisely resonates some smidge of this incredible experiment in being human.

   Photo by Alan Haywood

Though the poetry publishing biz ain’t
my favorite game, I hope to put out a
print volume of poems in my lifetime.
Until then, I have a CD of 21 poems,
written between 1998 and 2002 —
some the stuff of a beginning poet,
some pretty enduring — and all yours
for a ten-spot, plus S&H.

   Vital Source review of notspeak

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Poems

"The Way Back" / "N – Nitrogen 7" / "Face" (video)
"Death in Seven Movements"
"Face" (print)
"H – Hydrogen 1"
"To a Mother in Washington Market Park"
"A New York Winter"
"Slow Simmer" / "Brevity" / "Earlobes"
"To Not Speak of Rocks"

Articles

"Colorado Is Arty": Colorado Art Ranch and Artposia
"Trinidad Artposium :'Sex and Sensibility,' or Giving
      Head to the Unsayable."
"If You Can’t Beat ’Em, Join ’Em, or How the Beat
      Chicks Hatched"
"Reviews That Should Have Been Written: Poetry,
      The Press, and Public Space"
"Herman Berlandt’s International Poetry Museum"
"Painted Bride Quarterly Tossed Across Earthside
      Cyberstoops"
Rain Taxi poetry book review of Teresa Leo’s
     The Halo Rule
Rain Taxi poetry book review of Jeffrey Ethan Lee's
     Invisible Sister
"Smart Conditioning for Weekend Warriors"

I conduct one-on-one poetry consultations by phone,
by email, and in person.

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