Join Black Sun Lit, The Operating System, 11:11 Press & Contra Mundum Press for an AWP offsite reading.
Thursday, March 24, 2022
Lot 49 Books
1713 S 6th St, Philadelphia, PA 19148
6-9 PM
VIDHU AGGARWAL’s poetry and multimedia practices engage with world-building, video, and graphic media, drawing mythic schemas from popular culture, science, and ancient texts. Her poetry book, The Trouble with Humpadori (2016), imagines a cosmic mythological space for marginalized transnational subjects. Avatara, a chapbook from Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, is situated in a post-apocalyptic gaming world where A.I.s play at being gods. She has published in Boston Review, Black Warrior Review, Aster(ix) Journal, Poemelon, and Leonardo, among other journals. She is currently engaging in a “cloud poetics” as a way of thinking about personal, collective, and digital archives as a collaborate process with comic artists, dancers, and video artists. A Djerassi Resident and Kundiman Fellow, she teaches at Rollins College.
STEVEN ALVAREZ is the author of The Codex Mojaodicus, winner of the Fence Modern Poets Prize. He has also authored the novels-in-verse The Pocho Codex and The Xicano Genome, both published by Editorial Paroxismo, and the chapbooks, Tonalamatl, El Segundo’s Dream Notes (Letter [r] Press), Un/documented, Kentucky (winner of the Rusty Toque Chapbook Prize), and Six Poems from the Codex Mojaodicus (winner of the Seven Kitchens Press Rane Arroyo Poetry Prize). His work has appeared in the Best Experimental Writing anthology, Anomaly, Asymptote, Berkeley Poetry Review, Fence, MAKE, The Offing, and Waxwing.
JARED DANIEL FAGEN is the author of The Animal of Existence, which is forthcoming from Black Square Editions in 2022. His prose poems and essays have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Lana Turner, Asymptote, Caesura, and Prelude, among other publications. He is founding editor and publisher of Black Sun Lit, a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center, and an English instructor at the City College of New York. Born in Jeollanam-do, South Korea, he lives in Brooklyn and the western Catskills.
RAINER J. HANSHE is a writer and the founder of Contra Mundum Press and Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics. He is the author of two novels, The Acolytes (2010) and The Abdication (2012), and the hybrid work Shattering the Muses (2016), a collaboration with visual artist Federico Gori. His translations include Baudelaire’s My Heart Laid Bare (2017; 2020), Belgium Stripped Bare (2019), Paris Spleen (2021), and other works. His texts have appeared in Caesura, Salt, Vestiges, Sinn und Form, ChrisMarker.org, Asymptote, and elsewhere. Current work includes a philosophico-poetic interrogation of the human-animal interrelation, crossing, and schism, Humanimality, and a phantomatic philosophico-aesthetic history of Nietzsche and van Gogh, Closing Melodies. His translation of Évelyne Grossman’s The Creativity of the Crisis is forthcoming from Contra Mundum in late 2022.
GINGER KO is an Assistant Professor at Sam Houston State University’s MFA program in Creative Writing, Editing, and Publishing. She recently released POWER ON as both a book and interactive poetry app, produced with The Operating System. She is also the author of MOTHERLOVER (Bloof Books) and INHERIT (Sidebrow), as well as several chapbooks. Her poetry and essays can be found in The Atlantic, American Poetry Review, The Offing, VIDA Review, and elsewhere.
DANIKA STEGEMAN LEMAY’s work has appeared in 32 Poems, Afternoon Visitor, Concision, Forklift, OH, Leavings, and Word For/Word, among other places, and is forthcoming in Blue Arrangements and APARTMENT. Her video poem, “Then Betelgeuse Reappears,” was an official selection for the 2021 Midwest Video Poetry Festival. Her debut collection of poems, Pilot (2020), is available from Spork Press.
ELÆ MOSS is a multimodal creative practitioner, curator, cultural scholar, and educator. Their work of building Speculative Solidarities employs experimentation across analog and digital media to consider intersections between persons, forms of language, and systems. Recent exhibitions and performances have appeared at La Mama Galleria, EFA Project Space, STWST/Ars Electronica, Usdan Gallery, Judson Church, the Segal Center’s Performing Knowledge Festival, SOHO20, Dixon Place, The Anarchist Book Fair, and the Exponential Festival, among others. They publish and present their work widely across disciplines and mediums, as author, editor, and scholar. Select publications include Big Echo, Tagvverk, Vestiges, Matters of Feminist Practice, The Transgender Narratives Anthology, Choice Words: Writers on Abortion, The Brooklyn Poets Anthology, and Resist Much, and Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance. Their books include Ground, Blood Altas, Overview Effect, Sweet and Low: Indefinite Singular, Bodies of Work (in collaboration with painter Georgia Elrod), and The Precarity Bodyhacking Work-Book and Guide. They are a professor at Pratt Institute and the Founder and Creative Director of The Operating System and Liminal Lab.
VINCENT JAMES PERRONE is the author of the poetry collection Starving Romantic (11:11 Press, 2018), the microchap Travelogue for The Dispossessed (Ghost City Press, 2021), and a contributor to the novel Collective Voices in the Expanding Field (11:11 Press, 2020). His recent work can be found in Storm Cellar, The Indianapolis Review, Heavy Feather Review, and Olney Magazine. He is the current poetry editor of The Woodward Review and lives in Detroit. He composes and performs music (with the groups Lacan and Glynn Court), directs, scores, edits film projects, and is a member of the collectively owned bookstore Book Suey.
DAVID LEO RICE is a New York-based author. His books include the Dodge City Trilogy, Angel House, Drifter: Stories, Children of the New Flesh, and The New House, coming this summer. His next book, The Squimbop Condition, is coming in 2023. He’s also the co-host of the Wake Island podcast.
Books by the readers and light refreshments will be for sale. Masks required.