MCKENNAFAULKNER
Poetry
Participants of both talent hubs, WOLK and Inversie, spent a week working towards a presentation with the theme Sacred/Mud. Throughout this short residency, I wrote several texts, including a death lament that was distributed to the audience in the form of small booklets. Each booklet had pieces of poem cut out of it: in order to read the entire poem, you needed to team up with another audience member and compare what you'd received.
For the entire lament, click here.
Poetry Read Thru by Haute Cuisine - Kaapstad 2023
Kaapstad is a free art festival that takes place in Tilburg. This year, three of my poems (Eve, Tanden, En toch) were featured in the Poetry Read Thru: an art installation by Haute Cuisine.
Eve
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.
Other Experiments (aka Poems)
You Rage (Oxford SU X Bodleian Writing Contest)
Climate Grief (Fragmented Voices)
... and way, way more.
"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
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.
Foto: Marcel de Buck