Holly Painter

When the 17th c. British philosophers founded modern natural history, they proposed finding a poet to compile a poetic account of everything that existed in nature. This witty, learned, and satirical collection follows a year’s worth of submissions by one such researcher-poet, along with revisions and comments written in the margins between the poet and the editor.  As their relationship unravels, Natural History becomes a tool of the heartbroken and obsessed.

“Holly Painter is a trickster poet, you never know where she’s going next. Sometimes she wants to lick your ear. Over the page she might chew your leg off.” — John Newton

Holly has an MFA from the University of Canterbury. She is originally from Michigan where she interned at 826Michigan and currently lives in Singapore with her wife and son.

PLEASE NOTE: The Open Mic & Share Poetry Series will be on hiatus in January 2016.

We will resume on February 11 at 7pm; featured poet TBA.