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DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed poets Wayne Koestenbaum\, Sally Wen Mao\, S*an D. Hen
 ry Smith\, and Stacy Szymaszek share the poems they wrote for our Majolica
  Mania exhibition and the objects that informed their work.This event will
  be held via Zoom. A link will be circulated to registrants the day before
  the event. ASL Access will be provided by ProBono ASL.Meet the Poets!S*an
  D. Henry-Smith is an artist and writer working primarily in poetry\, phot
 ography\, performance\, and publishing\, engaging Black experimentalisms a
 nd collaborative practices across (and against) discipline. As mouthfeel\,
  they collaborate with Imani Elizabeth Jackson\, meditating on Black food\
 , ecology\, and ephemeral practices. Henry-Smith's debut collection of poe
 ms and photographs\, Wild Peach\, was published by Futurepoem in 2020 and 
 shortlisted for the PEN Open Book Award. “in awe of geometry & mornings”\,
  exhibited at White Columns\, brought to scale photographs from the book a
 longside a series of readings and conversations programmed with their coll
 aborators. They are also the director of Lunar New Year\, their first film
 .Wayne Koestenbaum—poet\, critic\, novelist\, artist\, performer—has publi
 shed 21 books\, including The Cheerful Scapegoat\, Figure It Out\, Camp Ma
 rmalade\, My 1980s & Other Essays\, The Anatomy of Harpo Marx\, Humiliatio
 n\, Hotel Theory\, Circus\, Andy Warhol\, Jackie Under My Skin\, and The Q
 ueen’s Throat (nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award).  His n
 ext book\, Ultramarine\, the third volume of his trance trilogy\, will be 
 published by Nightboat in February 2021.  In 2020 he received an American 
 Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature.  Yale’s Beinecke Rare Boo
 k and Manuscript Library acquired his literary archive in 2019. He is a Di
 stinguished Professor of English\, French\, and Comparative Literature at 
 the City University of New York Graduate Center.Sally Wen Mao is the autho
 r of two collections of poetry\, Oculus (Graywolf Press\, 2019)\, a finali
 st for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, and Mad Honey Symposium (Alice J
 ames Books\, 2014). The recipient of a Pushcart Prize and an NEA fellowshi
 p\, she was recently a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library\, a J
 enny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington at the George Washington University
 \, and a Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute. Her poetry and p
 rose have appeared in The Best American Poetry\, The Paris Review\, Poetry
 \, Harpers Bazaar\, The Kenyon Review\, Guernica\, and A Public Space\, am
 ong others.Stacy Szymaszek is the author of the books Emptied of All Ships
  (2005)\, Hyperglossia (2009)\, hart island (2015)\, Journal of Ugly Sites
  and Other Journals (2016)\, which won the Ottoline Prize from Fence Books
  and was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in 2017\, and A Year From T
 oday (2018). Her sixth book\, Famous Hermits\, will be published this year
  by Archway Editions. Szymaszek was the Director of The Poetry Project fro
 m 2007-2018. She was the Hugo Visiting Writer at the University of Montana
 -Missoula 2018-19\, Poet-in-Resident at Brown University\, and Visiting Po
 et for the Fire Island Artist Residency.  She has been a mentor for the Qu
 eer Art Mentorship and The Poetry Project\, visiting faculty for Naropa Un
 iversity’s Summer Writing Program\, and workshop teacher for Woodland Patt
 ern\, The Poetry Project\, and Wendy’s Subway. With her partner\, the poet
   Kimberly Alidio\, she lives in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley on the sac
 red homelands of the Munsee and Muhheaconneok people\, who\, due to forced
  removal\, reside in Northeast Wisconsin as the Stockbridge-Munsee Communi
 ty.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Majolica Poetry Reading
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