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SUMMARY:Other Countries\, Black Queer Expression\, 2024 Winter Solstice Reading
DESCRIPTION:By presenting the work of Black queer writers\, past and present\, Other Countries’ readings celebrate our voices\, honor our ancestors\, and foster reunions and new connections. Our early readings were hosted by The Studio Museum in 1989\, The Lesbian and Gay Center\, and other venues throughout the 1990s and 2000s\, and were revitalized in the 2020s at the Gene Frankel Theatre\, the CUNY Graduate Center\, The LGBTQ Center\, and now The Poetry Project. Celebrating Black Queer Expression\, Other Countries’ 2024 Winter Solstice reading will feature invited wordsmiths and provide opportunities for open-mic readers selected on a first come\, first sign-up basis.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/other-countries-black-queer-expression-2024-winter-solstice-reading/
LOCATION:The Poetry Project\, 131 E. 10th Street (at 2nd Ave)\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:A Celebration of Tyehimba Jess | Hollered into FUNK: Jess’ Juke Joint
DESCRIPTION:Join Cave Canem for a night of poetry\, music and jubilation (in the heart of Harlem!) as they celebrate Tyehimba Jess (‘97) for his decades-long commitment as a Cave Canem Fellow and as his tenure as Board President of Cave Canem comes to a close. Come dressed in your festive best for a night of blues\, poetry\, and kinship! This event is free with RSVP. RSVPs are honored on a first-come first-serve basis. \nFeaturing:\nThe Symphony\nReginald Dwayne Betts\, Randall Horton (Featuring Radical Reversal)\, Marcus Jackson\, John Murillo \nSpecial Guests\nCandace Wiley\, Hubby Jenkins (GRAMMY ® Nominated multi-instrumentalist)\, and a surprise special Guest!
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/a-celebration-of-tyehimba-jess-hollered-into-funk-jess-juke-joint/
LOCATION:Ginny’s Supper Club\, 310 Malcolm X Blvd\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Sound/Off: An Evening of Poetry
DESCRIPTION:This special evening program celebrates the artistry of poetry: written\, spoken\, and signed. In Sound/Off\, Deaf and hard-of-hearing poets writing in English join Deaf and hard-of-hearing poets making poems in American Sign Language on stage in the Guggenheim’s iconic rotunda to honor the richness and malleability of language in different hands and on different tongues. Conceived of by the Guggenheim’s 2024 Poet-in-Residence Meg Day\, readers include Raymond Antrobus\, Noah Buchholz\, Abby Haroun\, Camisha Jones\, Raymond Luczak\, and Sam Rush. This program will be fully interpreted in both spoken English and American Sign Language. \nThe program concludes with access to Day’s project Ekphrasis in Air featured on the sixth level of the museum’s rotunda as part of the installation Sixth Stanza\, and an exhibition viewing of Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris: 1910-1930.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/sound-off-an-evening-of-poetry/
LOCATION:Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum\, 1071 5th Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10128\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:PSA Reading Series: Carmen Giménez & Robyn Schiff
DESCRIPTION:About the Poets: \nRobyn Schiff is the author of four collections of poetry\, including the volume Information Desk: An Epic (Penguin 2023) which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Schiff has received the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome and a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and she co-edits Canarium Books—an independent small press dedicated to publishing exceptional volumes of poetry. She is a professor at the University of Chicago. \nCarmen Giménez is Director and Publisher of Graywolf Press. She is the author of numerous poetry collections including Milk and Filth\, a finalist for the NBCC Award in Poetry\, and Be Recorder\, a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award for Poetry\, the PEN Open Book Award\, the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry\, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She was awarded the Academy of American Poets Fellowship in 2020. A 2019 Guggenheim Fellow\, she served as Publisher of Noemi Press for twenty years.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/psa-reading-series-carmen-gimenez-robyn-schiff/
LOCATION:Poetry Society of America\, 119 Smith Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:29th Showcase Opening Reading: Wo Chan\, Erika Meitner\, Fred Moten\, & Charif Shanahan
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the opening of the 29th Poets House Showcase\, a literary exhibition and reading series that captures the breadth of contemporary poetry publishing. Delve into landmark collections with Wo Chan\, Erika Meitner\, Fred Moten\, and Charif Shanahan. This event is presented with generous support from Battery Park City Authority. \n\n\nWo Chan reads from Togetherness (Nightboat\, 2022)\, Erika Meitner reads from Useful Junk (BOA Editions\, 2022)\, Fred Moten reads from Perennial Fashion Presence Falling (Wave Books\, 2023)\, and Charif Shanahan reads from Trace Evidence (Tin House\, 2023). \nThis reading accompanies the Showcase exhibition opening\, a panoramic display of thousands of poetry publications: books\, chapbooks\, broadsides\, and poetry-related nonfiction published during 2022 and 2023. Items in the Showcase are organized by publisher\, offering a unique opportunity to discover new work and experience each publisher’s unique editorial voice. The Showcase will be on view during library hours from December 14th through February 14th. \n\nReading and conversation: 4-5pm\, Kray Hall \nAbout the Poets: \nWo Chan\, who performs as The Illustrious Pearl\, is a poet and drag artist. They are a winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize and the author of TOGETHERNESS (Nightboat\, 2022). Wo has received fellowships from MacDowell\, New York Foundation of the Arts\, Kundiman\, The Asian American Writers Workshop\, Poets House\, and Lambda Literary. Their poems appear in POETRY\, WUSSY\, Mass Review\, No Tokens\, The Margins\, and elsewhere. As a member of the Brooklyn-based drag/burlesque collective Switch N’ Play\, Wo has performed at venues including The Whitney Museum of American Art\, National Sawdust\, and the Architectural Digest Expo. \nErika Meitner is the author of six books of poems\, including Ideal Cities (Harper Perennial\, 2010)—a 2009 National Poetry Series winner; Holy Moly Carry Me (BOA Editions\, 2018)\, winner of the 2018 National Jewish Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry; and Useful Junk (BOA Editions\, 2022). Her poems have been published most recently in The New Yorker\, Electric Literature\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, Oxford American\, The New Republic\, Orion\, and elsewhere. Her seventh book\, Assembled Audience\, is due out from Milkweed Editions in 2026. Meitner is currently a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, where she also directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing. \nFred Moten is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry and criticism. He lives in New York with his partner\, Laura Harris\, and their children\, Lorenzo and Julian\, and works in the Departments of Performance Studies and Comparative Literature at New York University. \nCharif Shanahan is the author of two collections of poetry: Trace Evidence: poems (Tin House\, 2023)\, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry\, and longlisted for the National Book Award in Poetry; and Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing\, (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry/SIU Press\, 2017)\, which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and the Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/29th-showcase-opening-reading-wo-chan-erika-meitner-fred-moten-charif-shanahan/
LOCATION:Poets House\, 10 River Terrace\, at Murray Street (NYC)
CATEGORIES:New York
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