Allison Carter

Amazing Birth and Death Tales #16 • • Excised from Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May (at Atwater Village, Los Angeles) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bnr1s3jBuvLqQD0vzWs75fKsRctvo9Oel_5Y7o0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ktj68knbn9y4

Amazing Life and Death Tales #14 • • Excised from Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May (at Atwater Village, Los Angeles) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnMVUlxB-YTnzajCfioqFQlv8IBMFVHIui7lvQ0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=lcb882rqjvt4

Amazing Birth and Death Tales #12 • • Excised from Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May (at Atwater Village, Los Angeles) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm9EY9XhgssW76IYT48EOE7TPUJSZvYcthKM5o0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=hvbir81fjkbx

Amazing Birth and Death Tales #10 • • Excised from Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May (at Atwater Village, Los Angeles) https://www.instagram.com/p/BmPmOJpBo59t--o6itNeRxr-0JkmfVK0IutRGo0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=11kax0brdjyz

Amazing Birth and Death Tales #11 • • Excised from Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May (at Atwater Village, Los Angeles) https://www.instagram.com/p/BmZaUbkhQSzNWf5bNMA2TGs5WHfTKx9NMtKnio0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=cx3bqj2g5tc0

Amazing Birth and Death Tales #8 • • Excised from Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May (at Atwater Village, Los Angeles) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bl8wAJNBF36hJ0zDN4em6wciaFsa1dRVUPuqmc0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=608k7pybb0h

Amazing Birth and Death Tales #6 • • Excised from Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May (at Atwater Village, Los Angeles) https://www.instagram.com/p/BltgHPShd4e-oLffZWFwHVZW0B2vZA4DTfT7mI0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=fe451lkqdhr

Amazing Birth and Death Tales #6 • • Excised from Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May (at Atwater Village, Los Angeles) https://www.instagram.com/p/BlluFYKhSavD52F09SxuTVc0IESl8SNHZ9Krsk0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=obfe34luy1bt

Amazing Birth and Death Tales #5 • • Excised from Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May (at Atwater Village, Los Angeles) https://www.instagram.com/p/BlUIVwcBU_MDtyDHSrjLtnxNEtZ0-iVhRlBD8U0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=mkpau2hxtite

Amazing Life and Death Tunnels #3 • • Excised from Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May (at Atwater Village, Los Angeles)

Amazing Life and Death Tunnels #3 • • Excised from Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May (at Atwater Village, Los Angeles)

Amazing Life and Death Tunnels #3 • • Excised from Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May (at Atwater Village, Los Angeles)

Amazing Life and Death Tunnels #1 • • Excised from Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May (at Atwater Village, Los Angeles)

Listen to "Finally, the cylindrical voids tapping along" recorded by Stephanie Aston, Rachel Beetz, Matt Barbier, Ashley Walters, and Scott Worthington (Wasteland Music). Composed and conducted by Nicholas Deyoe. This piece is on the album "for Duane" on populist records. Text is from my first book, A Fixed, Formal Arrangement (Les Figues Press).

“The compositions Nicholas Deyoe includes on “for Duane” demonstrate a compositional approach which prioritizes collaboration. His timbrally rich, texturally complex, and often textually informed works highlight the abilities of the musicians and ensembles with which he regularly works. Finally, the cylindrical voids tapping along (2016) opens “for Duane” featuring soprano Stephanie Atson, Deyoe’s wife, accompanied by a mixed quartet comprised of members of wasteLand. The text by Allison Carter reflects contemporary anxiety, isolation, and purpose in the face of overwhelmingly limitless possibilities. Aston, through Deyoe’s setting, captures this reflective yet frenetic character through unadorned lyricism, dramatic recitation, and dazzling, gravity defying, vocal athleticism. Creating a dramatic textural context for the lyrics, Deyoe’s writing is most evocative when the accompaniment timbrally mimics the sounds of the words themselves.“

Overcoat for me and paw pads for you. Honey and seeds for the birds on the balcony. Let them in.

Friends!! Les Figues Press and Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) are throwing a party at Zebulon on February 22nd to celebrate their new partnership. I’ll be reading alongside Jess Arndt, Yxta Maya Murray, and Stephanie Taylor. Come party! There will be books! There will be cocktails and fine company! (at Zebulon Café Concert)