Really nice gig at WDVX Wordstream in Knoxville, reading from Unopened and playing some tunes. Also, really nice press piece from the Daily Times in Maryville Hitting all the right notes: Doug Hoekstra blends poetry, performance and parenthood by Lee Zimmerman Daily Times correspondent Doug Hoekstra is what some people might referContinue reading “Wordstream August 30”. Unopened earned stellar reviews and spurred Hoekstra to return to performing through a return to radio, readings, and music gigs, (Get the Funk Out @ KHOE California,, Writers Voices @KHOE Iowa, Word Stream @WDVX Knoxville) and a bevy of music gigs and readings, the latter including Nashville appearances at East Side Storytellin’ (Nashville), Lyrical Brew (Nashville), Poet’s Corner at Scarritt . · Nice to get some hometown ink, and thanks to the folks at East Nashvillian for this one, on the new book Unopened: Fragments of memory, bits of travelogue, imagistic meditations, lyric glimpses into every-day lives; these are the materials from which the poems in Doug Hoekstra’s most recent book, Unopened, are made. “It started out with some poems about family and some memories that I .
" Unopened is a reminder of how good a writer Doug Hoekstra is. As heartbreaking as it is often hilarious, it chonicles life, as Hoekstra's songs also have done, with matter-of-fact honesty and realism." John Clarkson, Pennyblack Music UK. Unopened / Doug Hoekstra bltadwin.ru far. Released in early , Unopened is Doug Hoekstra's third book, first collection of poetry, and a worthy compliment to his songwriting catalogue (8 CDs worth, on various labels in the U.S. and Europe). So far, its release has spurred positive reviews), radio appearances (Get. Doug Hoekstra -Unopened - Alterna-folk poetry. Ap Febru in Poetry by Chrystel Guerin "It's about experiences that are sort of unopened and what happens when you really open them up and look at them." Songwriter and poet Doug Hoekstra shares his insights into life and poetry, talking about his new collection of.
Nice to get some hometown ink, and thanks to the folks at East Nashvillian for this one, on the new book Unopened: Fragments of memory, bits of travelogue, imagistic meditations, lyric glimpses into every-day lives; these are the materials from which the poems in Doug Hoekstra’s most recent book, Unopened, are made. “It started out with some poems about family and some memories that I thought I’d just share with my son and family members,” says the singer-songwriter and award winning. Hoekstra has published two subsequent books, The Tenth Inning (short stories) and Unopened (poetry, released in ). A new collection of short stories, Ten Seconds In-Between will hit the streets June (on Better than Starbucks press). Really nice gig at WDVX Wordstream in Knoxville, reading from Unopened and playing some tunes. Also, really nice press piece from the Daily Times in Maryville Hitting all the right notes: Doug Hoekstra blends poetry, performance and parenthood by Lee Zimmerman Daily Times correspondent Doug Hoekstra is what some people might referContinue reading “Wordstream August 30”.
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