Hedwig Gorski started a genre of poetry where poets write for performance instead of for the printed page. She works with composer/musician husband D\'Jalma Garnier and has a new CD titled Send in the Clown of live radio broadcasts with East of Eden Band. She wrote and performed the performance poems. The work is critically acclaimed, supported by the Louisiana Division of the Arts, and recorded during live broadcasts on KUT-FM radio in Austin, Texas. Purchase Send in Clown on amazon.com. The album drops on Nov. 28, 2008.

5. “ The avant-garde archive as ruin, the bad mother as nurturing muse, these are possibilities and haunting spaces we could turn and return to in considering the significance of Gorski's Austin which, like Derrida's Austin, is unrecognizable in productive ways.” Reconstruction 7.3 (2007) about the book Intoxication: Heathcliff on Powell Street Slough Press book critic Alan Clinton writes

7. Jazz/blues writer Michael Point calls East of Eden Band on the KUT-FM radio “ Hip words and hot licks” Austin-American Statesman

8. KUT-FM Live Set radio tapes Stayed in rotation on international radio programs with Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Leonard Cohen, & other influences. “She comes as close to singing as anyone can without really singing.” playwright Jon Westerfield

9. jazz critic Greg Stephens writes that Gorski’s poems “ chart the frontier between sleep and waking, the differences between our nighttime and daytime selves.” Austin-American Statesman about performance poems with composer D’Jalma Garnier

10. The Austin Chronicle writes “ she is an avant-garde artist who successfully blends her love or performance and sound with the dreamy images of spiritual and philosophical musings spiraling from her curiouser and curiouser mind’s eye”

12. “ These poems are glorious mysteries. Mesmerizing. You read them and the music fills your chest. They hit you in the heart, in the solar plexus. Your mouth begins to form the words and your body sways to the music and I can’t even read music. And these words are so simple. Nothing artsy about them except the way they’re broken up into word nests. This should be prose you think, but it isn’t and where the feel is there is the poetry. Almost every one of these poems does that to you.” about the book Snatches of the Visible Unreal Backyard Press critic Ric Williams writes

14. New Texas Magazine writes "Gorski, who is widely acknowledged as one of our most innovative and compelling poets, is first-generation Polish American. Echoes of Eastern Europe reverberate through her complex verbal interplay, lingering especially in her phrasing.”

15. as an award-winning Dramatist radio drama about Polish immigrants in New Orleans during Solidarity

16. “ Gorski, a poet of musical sensibilities, writes with effective sound play . . . creates images that soothe, tease, and cut to the bone.” John Herndon Austin-American Statesman writes

18. “ Litera” writes “ If you like your pomes jazzy, subreal, and posturban aquamarine, if you wanted to know what happened to conceptualist dreamism.” R. W.

19. Austin Chronicle celebrates “Hedwig started out painting and wound up writing ( this painting sounds like a poem ).” K. H.

20. Visual Art: Paintings & Photographs

21. Jadzia dances to Stravinsky Oil on canvas

22. White Landscape Backlit gesso on unprimed cotton

23. Skewed Geometry series Unprimed, stained cotton on warped stretchers

24. Moon’s Gravity Oil on canvas

25. Bitumine Braille Oil on canvas with backlit perforations

26. Phantom in the Kitchen Virtual installation, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

27. Photography Time lapse on film photography Halifax

28. Dalhousie Ferry Time lapse on film photograph

29. Cooking Time lapse on film and double exposure Highway and New York City

30. Walking on a light leash Time lapse film photograph 2-minute street performance

31. Corduroy Knees & Coffee Cup Time lapse on film interior

32. Behind the Bathroom Door Time lapse film photography Interior

33. Visible Notes Text and photograph poetics Weekend

34. Channeling Che Time lapse photography and text

35. Nocturne Cafe Time lapse Film photography and text

36. The author of Possession, A. S. Byatt writes: “ her analysis is a work of art.” As a scholar and critic

39. thank you Visit hedwig.gorski.site.googlepages.com Email [email_address] Phone (337) 896-9054 Copyright 2008