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Videos on Artists Space. Readings in chronological order. Click on the reading and then scroll down to the video. Videos are posted about a week after the reading.

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Calendar Archive

SERIES CALENDAR

February & March

Curated by Artists Space

Curators: Stella Cilman and Jay Sanders

Feb 3

Tongo Eisen-Martin & Coco Gordon Moore

Tongo Eisen-Martin wrote the poetry and essay collections Someone’s Dead Already, Heaven Is All Goodbyes, Waiting Behind Tornados for Food, and Blood On The Fog. His curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people, We Charge Genocide Again, is an educational and organizing tool used nationwide. In 2020, he co-founded Black Freighter Press to publish revolutionary works. He is San Francisco’s eighth poet laureate.

Coco Gordon Moore is the author of three chapbooks, A Sketch of Romance, Today I Hate The Sun, and her latest chapbook Waiting Room which was published with Blush-Lit. She is working on a full length book of poetry.

Feb 10

Richard Maxwell & Bernadette Van-Huy

Richard Maxwell, artistic director of New York City Players, received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant. His work has been commissioned by ICA London, Barbican Centre, Festival D’Automne, Kunsten Festival, Vienna Festival, and presented at the Venice & Whitney Biennials. His latest book is Evening Plays. In January 2023 he presented Field of Mars at NYU Skirball Center.

Bernadette Van-Huy is an artist and writer. She’s a founding member of Bernadette Corporation, authored the book, In Person, and is currently making a film.

Feb 17

Lee Bains & Lonnie Holly

Lee Bains, a songwriter from Birmingham, Alabama, has put out four studio albums of “Southern gospel punk,” most recently Old-Time Folks. His band, The Glory Fires, collaborated with Lonnie Holley and Swamp Dogg. He published poetry in The New Yorker and lent his music to support striking coal miners, immigrants’ rights groups, abortion funds, and anti-racism organizations.

Since 1979, Lonnie Holley has devoted his life to the practice of improvisational creativity. Holley’s sculptures are constructed from found materials in the oldest tradition of African American sculpture. His work is collected by major museums throughout the world, on permanent display in the United Nations, and has been displayed in the White House Rose Garden.

Feb 24

Alexandra Auder & Stephanie LaCava

Alexandra Auder, writer and actor, wrote the memoir, Don’t Call Me Home, on growing up at in the Chelsea Hotel with her mother Viva. She has been a featured character in HBO’s High Maintenance and has acted in the films

of Wim Wenders and Jodie Foster, among others. She resides in Philadelphia with her two children & husband, filmmaker Nick Nehez, with whom she co-produces and collaborates.

Stephanie La Cava has published two novels, The Superrationals and I Fear My Pain Interests You. She is currently working on Tenso: A Dialogue on Love, based on a series of collaborative performances with writer Anahid Nersessian. Her writing has appeared in Texte zur Kunst, Harper’s, the New York Review of Books and Interview. She currently resides in New York City.

March 2

Charles North & Ron Padgett 

Charles North has published 20 books of poems and essays, and co-edited (with James Schuyler) the poet-painter anthologies Broadway and Broadway 2. His new and selected What It Is Like headed NPR’s Best Poetry Books of the Year (2011), and his awards include two NEA Fellowships, four Fund for Poetry awards, and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant. He is Poet-in-Residence at Pace University.

Ron Padgett’s How Long was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry. His Collected Poems won the LA Times Prize for the best poetry book of 2014 and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America which awarded him the Frost medal. Seven of his poems were used in Jim Jarmusch’s film, Paterson. Padgett’s most recent collection is Dot.

March 9

Harmony Holiday & Taylor Johnson

Harmony Holiday is the author of five collections of poetry including Hollywood Forever and Maafa. She’s a staff writer for LA Times’ Image and 4Columns. She’s preparing a collection of essays for Duke University Press, a biography of Abbey Lincoln, and an exhibition on performance culture for The Kitchen.

Taylor Johnson is the author of Inheritance. Their work appears in The Paris Review, The Baffler, and Scalawag. Taylor is a Cave Canem graduate fellow, a recipient of the 2017 Larry Neal Writers’ Award, and the 2021 Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging Writers from Lambda Literary. They live in New Orleans.

March 16

Richard Foreman & Frances Stark

Richard Foreman is the founder and artistic director of the non-profit Ontological-Hysteric Theater (1968-present). In the early 1980s a branch of the theater was established in Paris and funded by the French government. The theater is currently located in St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery.

Los Angeles based “artist’s artist” Frances Stark was born and raised in Southern California. She's been exhibiting art since the early 90s and is also known for her teaching and writing and overall independent spirit.

March 23

Dubravka Djurić & Fanny Howe

Dubravka Djurić is a professor at the Faculty for Media and Communication, Belgrade. She has published many studies of poetry and art. Her poetry has been translated into English, Polish, Italian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Slovenian, Albanian and Hungarian. She lives in Belgrade. She will be reading from her new book, The Politics of Hope (After

the War) with translator Biljana Obradović and introduced by Charles Bernstein.

Fanny Howe is a poet, novelist, and short story writer. Howe has written many books of poetry One Crossed Out, Gone, and Second Childhood, the novels Nod, The Deep North, and Indivisible, and collected essays The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word and Life and The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation.

April & May

Curated by Futurepoem

Curators: Dan Machlin, Rob Fitterman, Aiden Farrell, Ahana Ganguly, Ryan Cook

 April 6

Tilghman Alexander Goldsborough & Holly Melgard

Tilghman Alexander Goldsborough (b. 1991, richmond, va, usa). Poet. His books include The Western and Object 7 ( ,a subject loosely, ,bundled in a frame, ). He stays in Brooklyn, NY.

Holly Melgard has authored Read Me: Selected Works, Fetal Position, and self-published ten poetry books on Troll Thread press, which she co-edits and designs. A recent faculty in the Banff Winter Writers Retreat, she currently teaches writing, freelance book designs, and lives in Brooklyn.

April 13

Alexis Almeida & makalani bandele

Alexis Almeida is the author of I Have Never Been Able to Sing and Things I Have Made a Fiction. She co-translated Carlos Soto Román’s 11. Her translation of Roberta Iannamico’s Many Poems is forthcoming. She teaches at the Bard Microcollege at the Brooklyn Public Library and edits 18 Owls Press.

makalani bandele is a writer, poet, and visual artist. He is an Affrilachian Poet, National Endowment of the Arts, and Cave Canem fellow. He published three books of poetry, his latest, (jopappy & the sentence-makers are) eponymous as funk, won Futurepoem’s 2022 Other Futures Award, forthcoming in Fall 2024.

April 20

Imani Elizabeth Jackson & Emily Simon 

Imani Elizabeth Jackson is a poet from Chicago. She is the author of Flag and the chapbooks Context for arboreal exchanges and saltsitting. Among her awards are a 2023 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship and Futurepoem’s 2020 Other Futures Award.

Emily Simon’s first book, In Many Ways, is a lyrical, timely experiment in prose fragments, a log of pandemic life, and a meditation on selfhood, memory, and language. She published the chapbook Reign is Over, and her work ap- pears in Brazenhead Review, The Quarterless Review, The Florida Review, Salt Hill, and elsewhere.

April 27

Stephon Lawrence & Manuel Paul López

Stephon Lawrence is a Brooklyn poet interested in otherworldly poetics and the cultivation of emancipatory poetic spaces for sentiments that have been marginalized, displaced, or estranged from the dominant culture. u know how much i hate being alone in social situations// is her first full-length collection of poetry.

Manuel Paul López’s books include Nerve Curriculum, These Days of Candy, The Yearning Feed, and Death of a Mexican and Other Poems. A Canto Mundo fellow, his work has been published in Denver Quarterly, Fairy Tale Re- view, Huizache, New American Writing, Puerto del Sol, and The Rumpus.

May 4

Nature Theater of Oklahoma & Violet Spurlock

Kelly Copper & Pavol Liska began their collaboration in 1997 and together founded Nature Theater of Oklahoma in 2006. The company is committed to “making the work they don’t know how to make,” an approach yielding new amalgams of opera, dance, film, and theater, combined with popular culture and humor.

Violet Spurlock is a poet living in the Bay Area, where she is a PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley. Her first full-length collection, In Lieu of Solutions, won the Futurepoem Other Futures Award. Other titles include Alloyed Bliss and VS VS VS.

May 11

Charles Alexander & Laura Jaramillo

Charles Alexander is an artist, poet, and editor/publisher. His books of poetry include Pushing Water, AT the Edge OF the Sea: Pushing Water II, and Time Being. In 2021 he earned the CLMP award for lifetime achievement in literary publishing. He lives in Tucson Arizona.

Laura Jaramillo is a poet and critic. Born to Colombian parents in Queens, New York, she now lives in Durham, North Carolina. Her books include Material Girl and Making Water. She holds a PhD in critical theory from Duke University. She co-runs the North Carolina-based reading and performance series Paradiso.

May 18

Wendy Lotterman & Joe Milutis

Wendy Lotterman’s first book of poetry is A Reaction to Someone Coming In. Wendy is an associate editor of Parapraxis, a magazine of psychoanalysis & politics, & a postdoctoral research fellow in literature at the University of Oslo.

Joe Milutis is a writer and artist who teaches for the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics at the University of Washington-Bothell. He is the author of various books, parabooks, and expanded essays, most recently a translation of Roland Barthes’ largely forgotten, posthumous art book all except you.