Kurt Gellersted: Collaborators

Los Angeles-based Writer/Director/Actor and Kurt G's childhood friend from Illinois.

In addition to playing drums as part of her live band, Kurt collaborated with Brooke on new material for her album "Breathe The Same Air", released July 2005.

Renown cellist and composer, Erik has worked with Kurt to compose and develop a shared library of music cues and jingles.

Kurt arranged a viola part on a track for longtime collaborator Steve Zydek and his wife Heather who make up this new acoustic driven band. Listen to delusional and pure MP3

Many of Kurt's art songs have been drawn from the words of Nathan Hoks, Kurt's longtime friend from Illinois. Watch this page for more info on Nate, Chris Hund and other poet-friends as they take over....

Nathan Hoks has published poems in several literary journals, including Crazyhorse, Verse, Conduit, Court Green, Lit, CutBank, and Octopus Magazine. He has received fellowships from the University of Iowa and the Vermont Studio Center. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa, and an MA in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He lives and teaches in the Boston area. His work can be read in the following on-line journals:

Octopus Magazine (http://www.octopusmagazine.com/issue08/nathan_hoks.htm)

Verse Daily (http://www.octopusmagazine.com/issue08/nathan_hoks.htm)

Agni (http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/online/2003/hoks.html)

GutCult (http://www.gutcult.com/Site/litjourn5/html/NH1.html)

Pilot Magazine (http://www.pilotpoetry.com/s2hoks.html)

Chris Hund is a poet from the Midwest. He has an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and a BA from Loyola University Chicago. Currently he is putting the finishing touches on his first book length manuscript of poems. The poems are primarily influenced by Surrealism and the New York School. However, the influences of older poetics are often also present. The poems evoke a sense of travel, a sense of journey, even if they stay focused in on one moment or object. They are funny, but in a way that makes the humor deadly serious and funny at the same time. Have a good day.