The Organism for Poetic Research, Affect Theory Working Group, and Global Modernisms Working Group invite you to a reading with writers Eric Dean Wilson and Jaydra Johnson in celebration of Jaydra’s new book Low: Notes on Art and Trash (Fonograf Editions, 2024).

When: Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 6:30pm
Where: The Event Space, 244 Greene Street

About the Authors:

Jaydra Johnson is a writer, visual artist, and educator who splits her time between Portland, OR and NYC. Her debut essay collection Low: Notes on Art and Trash was selected for publication by Maggie Nelson and is out now with Fonograf Editions. Johnson is also the author of Refuse Report, a monthly newsletter exploring the tension between high and low art, currently hosted on Substack, and a Cliff Notes columnist for Variable West. You can find out more (or get in touch <3) at www.jaydrajohnson.com and on Instagram @jaydranicole

Eric Dean Wilson is the author of After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort (Simon & Schuster, 2021). His essays have appeared in The Baffler, Orion, Tin House, Time, and Esquire, among other places. He is assistant professor of creative writing and American literature at Wagner College, Staten Island. He is currently writing a book on cruising in Prospect Park, queer ecology, the myth of privacy, and anarchist conceptions of space. Originally from Memphis, TN, he now lives in Flatbush, Brooklyn.