For the first Surface Noise Says Invitational, we asked eight language
artists with wildly varied backgrounds and levels of experience to
share 5-10 minutes of their work in an intimate performance
environment. The resulting event was a joy to hear and see, so we’ve
decided to make it a regular thing. For this second Surface Noise Says
Invitational, we’ll have seven new performers sharing their work.
Full bios for the participating artists appear below: Joey Breakfast
is a queer performance artist specializing in original work. Born in
Oregon. But always here & now & maybe far from here, maybe up there.
He/They/space dust. A lover. A dreamer. And a something of an in
betweener. Always finding more routes, meeting at intersections, and
walking backwards in circles. Kymber Ezell is a senior at Indiana
University Southeast, studying English Literature with a concentration
in Creative Writing. Her poems have been published in several of her
university’s literary magazines and online at
instagram.com/kepoetry__ . In 2017, she organized a poetry reading at
her university which involved bringing artists across mediums together
to spontaneously translate what they heard into how it made them feel.
She has been writing poetry for as long as she can remember. Paul
McDonald is a poet that has been writing since the mid-1990s. His work
has appeared in Exquisite Corpse, Booglit, and 3am Magazine as well as
the chapbook “Write of Passage” and the full-length book “Like
Neon.” From 2001 to 2006, Paul broadcast morning commentary on
WFPL-FM. From 2007 to 2009, he taught English as a Second Language in
Jakarta, Indonesia and Bangkok, Thailand. He returned to the US to
pursue and obtain a Master’s Degree in Teaching at Spalding
University. Since 2013, his day job has been a GED teacher and Social
Service Clinician for the Kentucky Department of Corrections. His goal
in life is to journal every fucking day until he croaks and produce
several more chapters of poetry from the heart. Corbin McGuire was
born on August 10, 1995 in Louisville, Kentucky. She earned a BA in
English with minors in Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies at
Bellarmine University in 2018. She hosts exhibitions in her home, but
her work has also appeared at the Healthy House Art Gallery and the
McGrath Art Gallery. She spends s much of her time teaching art to
children and admires the honesty and vulnerability of the artwork they
create. Her writing and visual artwork explores mental health, gender,
fat and queer bodies, and domestic spaces. She is inspired by the
English artist Tracey Emin to create in a way that is shamelessly both
autobiographical and confessional. Grown in the primordial ooze of
Upstate New York and steeped in the oral traditions of the African
diaspora, poet, songwriter, and instrumentalist Hyacinth Miles shines
her intellectual light through the stained glass window of her own
experiences and onto our tepid reality. With big dreams and small
hands, she uses words to shape her greater environment and hopes to
organize her madness by sharing. Susan Norton is a writer, musician,
cartoonist, and sound engineer from Vermont currently residing in the
Derby City. Jameson Welch is a native Louisvillian poet and painter.
Widely and obscurely published since 1990. Editor of the
soon-to-be-revived poetry journal The Vernalist.
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