Join us for music and stories with Chip Albright, a storytelling singer-songwriter who weaves a tapestry of music from a blend of genres: Folk, Roots, Americana, and Country. Chip believes that these compositions possess tremendous power in helping us better understand the world we live in.
“I often describe my songs as empathetic vignettes, allowing listeners to see through someone else’s eyes,” Albright explained. Some narrators are fictional, while others are based on real individuals.
Born and raised in Fort Scott, Kansas, about an hour’s drive south of Kansas City, he describes his birthplace as a small community with a Victorian-style downtown, brick streets, and a rich history where his parents still reside.
“I grew up on a farm as a 4-H kid until the mid-eighties when we moved to town after the farm crisis hit us tremendously hard,” he said.
A true Midwesterner with rural Kansas roots and Des Moines, Iowa branches, Chip Albright is an independent singer-songwriter that still believes in good over evil. Chip’s songs are empathetic vignettes and reflective narratives weaving personal perspective and social commentary with Folk, Americana and Country stylizations. Chip has a penchant for storytelling, humor and insight. Chip will be performing songs from his forthcoming CD, Twenty-Five, that chronicles 25 of his original songs from the last 25 years and will be available for purchase. Chip is also a member of the Iowa Writers’ Collaborative and writes a weekly column called Chip Happens. You can find his original songs and stories online at www.chipalbrightmusic.com
David Wolf will join Chip to discuss his new book, 𝑆𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 which is a rich and complex collection of poetry. The title refers to the seven voicings or personas that make up the collection. Remarkably, the different voicings of the poems are conspicuously distinct and treat of different experiences and perspectives, but the seven sections unite to create a unified work.
Wolf's poetry is intriguing and challenging, but not obscure; deeply personal and intense, but also veined with humor and sympathy. The poetry is rich in imagery and simultaneously dense and playful in meaning. This is an important collection, and one to enjoy reading and re-reading.
--In Case of Emergency Press (Travancore, Victoria, Australia)
David Wolf is the author of seven collections of poetry, Open Season, The Moment Forever, Sablier I, Sablier II, Visions (with artist David Richmond), Weir (a micro-chapbook from Origami Poems Project), and Seven. His work has appeared in numerous literary magazines and journals, including BlazeVOX, Cleaver Magazine, dadakuku, decomp, E·ratio, Exacting Clam, Indefinite Space, Lotus-eater Magazine, New York Quarterly, Otoliths, River Styx Magazine, Transom, and Utriculi. He is a professor emeritus of English at Simpson College and serves as the poetry editor for Janus Head: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology, and the Arts.
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