Lyric (II.): Live Music and Poetry Readings
Lyric is Accent’s interdisciplinary literary series, where musicians and writers come together for an evening of live music and readings. For our second lyrical number, we are featuring the musician Honey Marmalade and writers Tangie Mitchell, Phil SaintDenisSanchez, Tariq Thompson, and Hua Xi.
tangie mitchell (she/her) is a poet and editor from North Carolina. Writing about the Black American South, her work has been featured in Poetry Wales, Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora, West Trade Review, Exposition Review, and more. A Watering Hole Poetry Fellow and an alum of the UK-based Obsidian Foundation, her work has earned a Best of The Net and Robert Siegel Prize nomination and has received support from the Cave Canem Foundation, Sundress Academy of the Arts, and other arts institutions. She lives in Harlem, New York.
Performing under the stage name Honey Marmalade, Olivia Klein is a 26-year-old singer from Omaha, Nebraska. Honey Marmalade's performed at Brooklyn Bowl, The Sultan Room, Nublu, Garcias, City Winery, Rockwood Music Hall, Pete's Candy Store, Bowery Electric, and more. Their debut album, Over Before It Started, is now out on streaming services.
Phil SaintDenisSanchez is a Creole poet from New Orleans. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Best New Poets, The Adroit Journal, Poetry International, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. His poem "monarchs are the communication medium for when i die" was a finalist for Poetry International's C.P. Cavafy Prize and his chapbook "watch out for falling bullets" was a finalist for The Atlas Review's and Button Poetry's chapbook contests, and a notable manuscript for BOAAT's chapbook contest. A semifinalist for the 2020 Discovery Prize, he has received scholarships to attend Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and presented at AWP on creating collaborations between poetry and music. His debut collection, before & after our bodies, is forthcoming on Button Poetry in 2025. He studied music theory and composition at The City College of New York, records under the name SaintDenisSanchez, and currently lives in Brooklyn.
Tariq Thompson is a poet and educator from Memphis, Tennessee. He is the author of the chapbook LONE LILY (Sunset Press, 2021). His poetry has appeared in the American Poetry Review, The Adroit Journal, Sixth Finch, wildness and elsewhere. Thompson was a finalist for a 2023 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship and was awarded the 2020 Adroit Prize for Poetry. He holds an MFA in poetry from New York University, where he was a Writers in the Public Schools Fellow.
Hua Xi is a poet and artist. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The Nation, The New Republic and elsewhere.