Maria Hummel was awarded the 2013 APR/Honickman First Book Prize for her manuscript House and Fire, selected by poet Fanny Howe. Maria is also the author of two novels, Wilderness Run (St. Martin’s), and Motherland (Counterpoint, 2014), as well as the chapbook City of the Moon (Harperprints). Her poetry, fiction, and nonfiction appear in Poetry, The Missouri Review, New England Review, The Sun, Creative Nonfiction, and Pushcart […]
On May 17, 2007, From the Fishouse and City Lights Books were pleased to present a reading by poets Barbara Jane Reyes, Matthew Shenoda, Camille T. Dungy, Maria Hummel, and Shane Book at City Lights in San Francisco. This is Hummel’s full reading.
Maria Hummel reading Dear Sirs, live at City Lights Books, May 17, 2007.
Maria Hummel reading Pumpkin with a Thousand Faces, live at City Lights Books, May 17, 2007.
Maria Hummel reading The Wait, live at City Lights Books, May 17, 2007.
Maria Hummel reading Ultrasound, live at City Lights Books, May 17, 2007.
Maria Hummel reading One Kiss by Tess Gallagher, live at City Lights Books, May 17, 2007.
I had three brothers to watch over me. I had a collie, a yard with lilies-of-the-valley. I had a father, mother, birthdays, ice cream. At two, I played at drowning. At ten, I dreamed of nuclear death, and whenever a plane went coasting over, it marked the end. A cloud bent back on itself. Our […]