michael mack poet, playwright, performer

Michael Mack interviewed on ABC TV affiliate WTNH about "Hearing Voices (Speaking in Tongues)"

"Hearing Voices" at Yale University

In partnership with Fellowship Place of New Haven, poet, playwright, and performer Michael Mack brings his acclaimed one-man show Hearing Voices (Speaking in Tongues) to the Yale University Whitney Auditorium, Thursday, June 11th at 7:00pm, New Haven, Connecticut. GET TICKETS !

Following the performance, a post-play Q&A will feature faculty from the Yale School of Medicine and School of Drama joining Mack for an audience discussion about mental illness, mental health, and the arts.

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hearing voices
(speaking in tongues)

Michael Mack's disarming one-man play about his mother's mental illness

Poet and performer Michael Mack

Schizophrenia touches one in every hundred people, saints and sinners alike.

One family's true story of madness, love, and redemption.

featured poems

Becoming Annie. "Becoming Annie, who wakes in a wrinkled cotton nightie, watches a luminous hand touch her ticking wrist....

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Poet and performer Michael Mack

Spartacus Speaks. "I see much from this height. Grape leaves wave like nailed palms, and my toes are sprouting flies...."

Confession. "I loved the suspense – Saturdays, waiting on pews with ancient hunch-backed women whispering into their fists...."

Our Lady of Sorrows. "Why my mother chopped off her hair, why she followed me to the school bus stop that morning in second grade...."

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"Exquisite"

National Public Radio

"Breathtaking"

Minneapolis Star Tribune

"Transcendent"

Boston Sunday Globe

"Healing"

Washington Post

 

 

 

 

 

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"The poem is the point at which our strength gives out."

Richard Rosen

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"The universe is made of stories, not atoms."

Muriel Rukeyser

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"The past isn't dead.
It isn't even past."

William Faulkner

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2009 schedule

Full list of Michael Mack's performances.

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May '09 – Joining art and spirituality, Mack presents selections from Hearing Voices for a Sunday morning Unitarian Universalist worship service, Middleboro, MA

May '09 – Mack performs Hearing Voices (Speaking in Tongues) at the Community College of Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD

Apr '09 – Chosen by New Hampshire Poet Laureate Patricia Fargnoli, Mack wins the Writers Circle National Poetry Prize for "Becoming Annie," reads at the Public Library, Providence, RI

Mar '09 – Mack joins musicians in an evening of performances for residents of Boston Rescue Mission, Boston, MA

Nov '08 – Michael Mack showcases new and selected performance works at Endicott College in Beverly, MA

Oct '08 – Hearing Voices is keynote performance for the Psi Beta National Honor Society in Psychology Synergy Conference, Westminster, MD

Oct '08 – Miami University hosts Hearing Voices (Speaking in Tongues) for the Psychology Department's Colloquium Series, Oxford, OH

Oct '08 – The National Alliance on Mental Illness of Cambria County, Pennsylvania brings Hearing Voices to its annual conference in Johnstown, PA

May '08 – Mack presents Hearing Voices for the Larry Carver Mental Health Series, Middleboro, MA.

May '08 – Hearing Voices headlines at historic Mechanics Hall in Worcester MA. More in media feature.

May '08 – Lasell College hosts Hearing Voices at its campus in Newton, MA.

Jan '08 – Mack features with other poets to raise public awareness about mental illness in Arts from the Heart event, Middleboro, MA.

Nov '07 – Hearing Voices plays the Spirit & Place Festival, Indianapolis, IN. Hear NPR interview.

Sep '07 – Mack features at Walden Pond, home of celebrated author Henry David Thoreau.

Aug '07 – Mack's poem Confession published in Best Catholic Writing 2007.

May '07 – Hearing Voices comes home to Baltimore, MD. Read Baltimore Sun feature article.

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