The New Social Environment#241
Radical Poetry Reading with Barry Schwabsky
Featuring political poetry read by Simone Kearney, Joyelle McSweeney, Arthur Sze, and Tyrone Williams.
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Barry Schwabsky curates the 26th Radical Poetry Reading featuring Simone Kearney, Joyelle McSweeney, Arthur Sze, and Tyrone Williams.
In this talk
To celebrate our participation in Printed Matter’s Virtual Art Book Fair, we’ve organized a week of NSE programming highlighting the many voices involved in art books and publishing. From February 24-28, you can view our virtual table and enjoy all the fair has to offer here.
Pamela Sneed
A New York-based poet, writer, performer and visual artist, author of Funeral Diva, as well as Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery, KONG and Other Works, Sweet Dreams and two chaplets, Gift by Belladonna and Black Panther. She has been featured in the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Artforum, Hyperallergic and on the cover of New York Magazine. She is online faculty in SAIC’s low res MFA and has also been a Visiting Artist at SAIC in the program for 4 years. She has performed at the Whitney, Brooklyn Museum, Poetry Project , MCA, The High Line , New Museum and Toronto Biennale. She appears in Nikki Giovanni’s, “The 100 Best African American Poems.” In 2018, she was nominated for two PushCart Prizes in poetry.
Kyle Dacuyan
A poet, performer, and translator who writes poems and makes performance. Recent poems appear in Ambit, The Brooklyn Rail, The Offing, and Social Text. He is a 2021 NEA Fellow in Literature and Executive Director of The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s.