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SEEDS UNDER THE TONGUE

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A recital to celebrate the release of Timothy P. McLaughlin's second poetry collection.

With SEEDS UNDER THE TONGUE, McLaughlin wields a boldly ecstatic voice to explore a confluence of themes: wanderings on the wild earth, relations with more-than-human presences, engagement with indigenous ceremony, reckoning with Catholicism, the swirl of young family life. These heart scores are delivered in a euphonic, incantatory brand of storytelling that delights and provokes at the depths.

McLaughlin is widely known for his uniquely powerful style of embodied recitation. He will be accompanied on stage by singer Madi Sato, dancer Esme Olivia, and musician WalkingStar Martinez.

"What does it taste like to feed oneself to the living earth? How does it feel to have the snow-decked trees begin to speak their black-rooted and branching language into one's heart? To be gifted one's voice by the soil and the stars? Read these poems, try them out on your tongue, to find out." --David Abram

"McLaughlin is truly an anam chara (soul friend) of Mother Nature. These verses are magnificent symphonies of delight and praise; kernels to be experienced from the heart; saplings of a cosmic revolution." --Nóirín Ní Riain

"Seeds Under The Tongue offers insights into nature (or the real world, as far as I am concerned) and offers lessons and perspectives into things we should all pause to see and feel now and then, but don't. My favorites are Sacred Fire and Hail Mother. --Joseph Marshall III