Poetry

Participants from both WOLK and Inversie talent hubs spent a week preparing a presentation centered on the theme Sacred/Mud. During this brief residency, I wrote several texts, including a lament, which was shared with the audience as a series of small booklets. Each booklet contained fragments of the poem, inviting audience members to collaborate and compare their pieces to experience the poem in its entirety.

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For the entire lament, click here.

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Poetry Read Thru by Haute Cuisine - Kaapstad

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Kaapstad is a free art festival that takes place in Tilburg. Three of my poems (Eve, Tanden, En toch) were featured in the Poetry Read Thru: an art installation by Haute Cuisine.

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Eve

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                    I watch you fall in love

with her.        I watch your warm face,

                      the roses on your cheeks.

 

                You’ve been drinking

again.      It’s nothing new. You,

  unhonorable

 

   though I try.

 

                 There is only so much

time.         Only so much sunlight

              to quench your vice.

 

                   Your speech is slowing

and time            is stretching. I will kiss you

                     tonight. I will dress you

 

        in the morning.

 

                   Coffee is boiling. You,

again,            cursing that empty mug,

                    as if I ever denied you

anything.

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Other Experiments (aka Poems)

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The Hound

Climate Grief (Fragmented Voices)

Quiet House

... and way, way more.

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"The bundle breaks               its voice

breaching       phonemes like breath

clouding                                dancing

through the cracks     in the window

like snow"

-Excerpt from Quiet House, McKenna Faulkner

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Performances

Once in a blue moon, I like to perform. In the past, I've shared poems of mine at Bulkboek Literary Marathon, het Zwarte Schaap, and Meervaart Poetry Café, among other events.