House Lions is Wesleyan’s resident poetry podcast. To hear fresh featured poets read their poems live and talk about their work check out the House Lions weekly featured reader. Look for information about live recording sessions in the Shapiro Creative Writing Center, and a new featured poet each Monday. For more information, or to express interest in being on the show, shoot an email to sknittle@wesleyan.edu.

This week’s featured reader: Peter Myers ’13

Bio: Peter Myers was birthed by liberal parents onto the mean streets of Takoma Park, Maryland. After many years of dabbling in poetry and short stories during middle school English, he got down to business his junior year of high school and took a creative writing class with a lot of amazing people.His work has been in various Montgomery Blair High School publications, and he was fortunate enough to win a runner-up prize in a student short story contest at a literary conference honoring Elmore Leonard. Peter currently lives in Wesleyan’s writing hall, and enjoys the Legend of Zelda and rap battling in his free time.

Starbright

To just close our eyes

Enter reality defined by

The distant outlines

Of our lost thoughts in cosmos

The blank canvas, oceanic origin

Of rainbow; completion of the spectrum

To dive into color

Reaching the surface

We bubbled up to face the vastness

To taste the radiance as it falls

In the open space that allowed for

Everything—and nothing

Where we screamed heralds at starlight,

Catcalls to the ancient galleries

But never expected meteors

To come tumbling down

Like night’s avalanche

Never expected, until the shot rang out

Free will exists; so does terror beyond conception

And both send us utterly naked towards the brink

[argusaudio src=”http://wesleyanargus.com/audio/obama.mp3″] Barack Obama Is not a Man

[argusaudio src=”http://wesleyanargus.com/audio/cirtus.mp3″] Citrus

[argusaudio src=”http://wesleyanargus.com/audio/starbright.mp3″] Starbright

[argusaudio src=”http://wesleyanargus.com/audio/peterfullinterview.mp3″] Full Interview

This week there will be two live recordings in the Shapiro Creative Writing Center – Lizzie Greenwald ’12 and Chiara Di Lello ’10 who will both record Monday November 16th, at 9 PM.