SERIES CALENDAR

October & November 2024

Curated by A Gathering of the Tribes: Regie Cabico & Drew Pisarra

Oct 5

Joan Larkin & Malcolm Tariq

Joan Larkin’s newest book, Old Stranger, is her sixth collection of poems. Previous titles include My Body: New and Selected Poems, winner of the Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde award. A lifelong teacher and poet, she has recently begun publishing short fiction.

Malcolm Tariq is a poet and playwright from Savannah. He is the author of Heed the Hollow, winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, and the 2020 Georgia Author of the Year Award in Poetry. He lives in Brooklyn and is the senior editorial manager for PEN America's Prison and Justice Writing Program.

Oct 12

Sloppi Chulo & Nancy Mercado

Sloppi Chulo is an actor, playwright, rapper, burlesque performer, and model who has been posing for drawing workshops and bachelorette parties for over a decade. There Once Was a Muse..., a collection of limericks and figurative art based on these adventures in the buff, is his first book of poems.

Nancy Mercado received the American Book Award for Lifetime Achievement. She has been featured at Lincoln Center, The Whitney Museum, and the University of Nantes in France, among others. Mercado has authored two books, seven theater plays, and has edited three anthologies. For more info: Nancy-Mercado.com.     

Oct 19

Pamela Booker & Xavier Cavazos

Pamela Booker is the 2024 NJ State Council on the Arts / Mid Atlantic Arts Prose Fellow for the manuscript Dill’s Mirrors and the Lizzies. An interdisciplinary writer, her publications are featured in various outlets, including Duke University Press. She’s in the Teaching-Faculty in Writing Studies / Theater Arts at Montclair State University.

Xavier Cavazos is a grand slam champion of the NuYoRican Poets Cafe. He is the author of three collections: Barbarian at the Gate, Diamond Grove Slave Tree, and The Devil’s Workshop (Editor’s Choice Award from Cleveland State University Poetry Center). Cavazos is a senior poetry editor for Poetry Northwest and directs the Liberal Studies Program at Central Washington University.

Oct 26

Cheryl Boyce-Taylor & Thomas Fucaloro

Cheryl Boyce-Taylor is the author of seven collections of poetry. Her 2021 verse memoir, Mama Phife Represents, won The Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. It is about her son, Malik, aka Hip Hop Legend, Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest. Her latest collection, The Limitless Heart: New and Selected Poems, won the 2024 CLMP Firecracker Award in Poetry.

Thomas Fucaloro has won grants from the Staten Island Council of the Arts, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, NYC Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes, and NYC Commission of Human Rights. He holds an MFA from the New School and is a founding editor of Great Weather for Media and NYSAI press. He is an adjunct professor at Wagner College, BMCC and CSI.  Instagram: @thomasfucaloro

Nov 2

LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs & Modesto Flako Jimenez

LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs is the author of Village and TwERK. She is co-editor of Coon Bidness/SO4. Diggs received a 2020 C.D. Wright Award for Poetry from the Foundation of Contemporary Art, a Whiting Award, and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship. She lives in Harlem and teaches at Brooklyn College.

Modesto Flako Jimenez is an artist who loves creating DOPE work with DOPE people. Stay tuned to upcoming work such as Reconstructing (Still Working but the Devil Might Be Inside) and Mercedes, Part 1 at BAM – via oyegroup.org and/or flakojimenez.com.

Nov 9

Norman Fischer & The New York Neo-Futurists

Norman Fischer is a poet, essayist, and Soto Zen Buddhist priest. Poetry titles are Nature, There Was a Clattering As…, The Museum of Capitalism, Men in Suits, and most recently Through a Window. His Selected Poems 1980-2013 came out in 2022. He lives in Muir Beach, CA, with his wife Kathie, also a Zen priest. He is the founder of the Everyday Zen Foundation (wwww.everydayzen.org)

The New York Neo-Futurists are an ensemble that writes and performs work rooted in our lived experiences. In our 20th year, we are best known for our high-energy late-night show, THE INFINITE WRENCH, that fuses elements of poetry, game, and performance art. Currently based in the West Village, to date they have premiered 7,100 plays.

Nov 16

Jee Leong Koh & Thaddeus Rutkowski

Jee Leong Koh is the author of Steep Tea, named a Best Book of the Year by UK’s Financial Times. His Snow at 5 PM won the Singapore Literature Prize. He heads the literary nonprofit Singapore Unbound, the press Gaudy Boy, and the journal SUSPECT.

Thaddeus Rutkowski is the author of eight books, including two of poetry: Border Crossings and Tricks of Light. His most recent book is Safe Colors, a novel. He teaches at Medgar Evers College, Columbia University, and a YMCA. He received a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Nov 23

Joey de Jesus & No Land & Anne Waldman

Joey de Jesus authored HOAX Limited Artist Set and the chapbooks We Animate the Dream: A Poet’s Run for Public Office and NOCT- The Threshold of Madness. Recipient of a BRIC ArtFP Project Room Commission, Joey is co-editor at Apogee Journal and lives in Ridgewood, Queens where they ran for NY Assembly District 38 in 2020.

No Land’s art & poetry books include Authentic Artifice and The Velvet Wire, co-authored with Anne Waldman. She has performed at The Poetry Project, Giorno Poetry Systems, Rewire Festival, Jazzfest Berlin, Tribes Gallery, Roulette, and with the Ginsberg Estate. Her art & cinema works are in the Whitney Museum digital collection, Fotografiska Museum, Zebra Poetry Film Festival, and on the street corners of NYC.

Anne Waldman is the author of over 60 volumes including The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in The Mechanism of Concealment which won the Pen Center Literary Prize. Recent books include Bard,Kinetic, Tendrel: A Meeting of Minds, Mesopotopia, and the album Astral Omens. Waldman co-founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University with the most celebrated poets in America, the Beat Generation.

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December & January 

Curated by ROOF BOOKS: Lonely Christopher & James Sherry

Dec 7

Deborah Meadows & Kamelya Omayma Youssef

Deborah Meadows grew up in Buffalo and graduated from SUNY, Buffalo in Philosophy and English. She is an Emerita faculty member with California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Meadows has published over a dozen books of poetry, most recently, Bumblebees. She lives in the L.A. Arts District/Little Tokyo. www.deborahmeadows.com

Kamelya Omayma Youssef, author of A book with a hole in it, is a text and performance worker who teaches, edits, and organizes events. Her work appears in 1080Press, Mizna, The Margins, Poem-a-Day and elsewhere. She and you will see a free Palestine in this lifetime.

Dec 14

Antoinette Cooper & Edwin Torres

Antoinette Cooper is a writer and TEDx speaker whose work explores the intersections of race, gender, health, and ancestral healing. Her debut book, UNRULY, weaves poetry, memoir, and documentary evidence into embodied storytelling. Cooper holds an MFA from Columbia University and founded Black Exhale, a nonprofit addressing collective intergenerational trauma.

Edwin Torres’ recent poetry collections include Quanundrum: i will be your many angled thing which won the American Book Award and Xoeteox: the infinite word object. He edited the collection The Body In Language: An Anthology. Fellowships include NYSCA, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, DIA, and Arts Mid-Hudson.

Jan 4

Evelyn Reilly & Mohammed Zenia

Evelyn Reilly's books include Styrofoam, Apocalypso, Echolocation, and Having Broken, Are. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies, and Styrofoam is widely written about as an example of ecopoetics and avant-garde experimentation. She serves on the Steering Committee of the climate activist group 350NYC.

Mohammed Zenia is the author of the poetry collections Tel Aviv, James Baldwin’s Lungs in the 80s, Black Bedouin with Tenaya Nasser, and Blk Wttgnsn. Their work has appeared in the Poetry Project Newsletter, e-flux Journal, 240p magazine and Apogee Journal. They live in Brooklyn.

Jan 11

Charles Bernstein & Sol Cabrini

Bernstein’s new book, out in November, 2024, is The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays and Comedies. He won the 2019 Bollingen Prize for Near/Miss and lifetime achievement. Recent books: Topsy-Turvy and Pitch of Poetry.

Originally from Chicago, Sol Cabrini is the author of the book, Tgirl.jpg, and a doctoral candidate in the Performance Studies program at NYU. Cabrini composes music under the alias Sol Patches. Cabrini credits her Louisiana-Mississippi-Tennessee heritage as crucial sites of expression, creolization, and celebration.

Jan 18

Ann Lauterbach & Chris Campanioni

Ann Lauterbach’s eleventh poetry collection Door was shortlisted for the 2024 Griffin International Poetry Prize. Recent writings include “Untitled (Event)” in Felix Gonzalez-Torres Photostats, “Art of the Unbeautiful True” in Mina Loy Strangeness is Inevitable, “Topos Non Topos: Notes on David Novros” in David Novros Wall Paintings. Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Fellowship, she teaches at Bard College, where she was co-Chair of Writing in Bard’s MFA (1992-2020).

Chris Campanioni’s latest book is Windows 85. His work on migration and media theory has been awarded the Calder Prize for interdisciplinary research and a Mellon Foundation fellowship. His writing has received the Pushcart Prize, the International Latino Book Award, and the Academy of American Poets College Prize. 

Jan 25

Ted Rees & Jimin Seo

Ted Rees is the author of Hand Me the Limits and Dog Day Economy, both available from Roof Books. Thanksgiving: a Poem was a Lambda Literary Award finalist for Best Gay Poetry in 2021. He lives in Philadelphia, where he teaches and works at a climbing gym when he's not hanging out with his husband and their two dogs.

Jimin Seo, born in Seoul, immigrated to the US at the age of eight. His books include OSSIA, winner of The Changes Book Prize, and the chapbook A - 1982. His most recent projects were Poems of Consumption with
H. Sinno at the Barbican Centre in London and a site activation for salazarsequeromedina's Open Pavilion at the
4th Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism.

These events are made possible, in part, by Artists Space staff support & technical assistance.