A play became the poems, which became a brand new play! Out of Thebes is in full swing in Santa Fe, NM: Santa Fe New Mexican article / Info and Tickets
The Writer’s Almanac, June 9, 2014
StandardSmall Rooms with Gods is now available on Amazon.
LinkThe Books have Arrived!
ImageAudio Preview: Haemon Walks…
AudioRadio Appearance 1/26
StandardI’ll be on KUNM’s Spoken Word Hour with Ramona King this week–
Sunday, January 26th at 8pm. You can listen via the stream here: kunm.org.
Poet Lauren Camp will be there too!
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ImageFirst, Think (audio preview)
StandardVoice: Angela Janda; Strings: Ross Hamlin; Drums: Al Faaet; Misc. Percussion: Jack Kolkmeyer.
If Not for Oedipus, Creon (audio preview)
StandardVocals: Angela Janda; Drums: Al Faaet; Strings: Ross Hamlin; Misc. Percussion: Jack Kolkmeyer
“…a brilliant range of voices.”
Standard“The poems of Angela Janda’s Small Rooms With Gods, provoked by an adaptation of Jean Anouilh’s Antigone, take the ancient Greek story into new territory, beyond the direct clash of state authority and social duty, and into the subtler terrain of ambiguous relationships and emotional compromises. Janda escorts us through the various characters’ motives, actions, and reflection—beginning with a spare announcement of the death of Oedipus, through an investigation, to social and familial upheaval. From report to work-in-progress, to scripted drama, to full production, to what an audience takes away, and what an actor re-embodies—it culminates in a retrospective interpolation of Antigone’s growth—as character, as archetype, as focus of a society’s moral understanding. These poems powerfully synthesize tense drama and deep examination of the struggle for ethical maturity, in a brilliant range of voices.”
-John C. Rezmerski, Poet
Gustavus Adolphus College Professor Emeritus of English