#seth simons

[bostonpoetryslam]

Somewhere a ghost of me wanders the library of what I swore not to do.

Seth Simons, “Red-Legged Honeycreeper,” published in gaze

[bostonpoetryslam]

I was stupid in love with her for a spell, a good spell, but it never would’ve worked you see, we were like two ships, or I was like two ships and she was like a human person with her own inscrutable cabinet of want. Still, how nice to be two ships. Sails unfurled, dolphins leaping, everyone in their white suits.

Seth Simons, “Poem for Los Angeles,” published in gaze

[iheartvelma]

“When I started reading and writing criticism, I thought it was because I wanted to understand art. The longer I do it, the more I see that I also want to understand why I like the art I like—why I am moved by what moves me. Right now I believe my tastes, if persnickety, are pretty simple. I crave work that feels as strange and familiar as a human being. I cannot tolerate the familiar without any strangeness, nor the strange without anything familiar. I think this is why I am drawn to standup, improv, and poetry, all forms that at their best feel like direct transpositions of the human psyche: weird, jagged, unpredictable, furious and hurt, funny and sad and awestruck, never exactly describable in retrospect, always on the precipice of collapse, a dream you’ve woken up into.”

A quote from freelance critic and journalist Seth Simons, former comedy editor for Paste Magazine.

Read more of his work at sethsimons.substack.com and hey, if you like it, support his work with a $6 monthly subscription to his newsletter.

[whimsybird]

I just discovered Seth Simons' writing and I am so in love.

[excelanoproject]

"Pope-Picking Poem" by Siraj and Seth

#throwback to Split No Lightning

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"Quiet People Like Us" by Seth Simons, ft. John Chen The Excelano Project Fall 2012 Show: Mother Tongue

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"Act 1, Scene 1" by Seth Simons and Hannah Van Sciver The Excelano Project Fall 2012 Show: Mother Tongue

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