Kay Gabriel will read from A Queen in Bucks County in which the protagonist Turner - who both is and is not the writer - makes his pleasurable way through miserable space...
Mia You will read from Rouse the Ruse and The Rush (Nion Editions, 2023), a long poem inspired by the life and still lifes of the 18th-century painter Rachel Ruysch. This sequence employs translation and ekphrasis to place the discourse of reproductive rights within an ecological framework, pushing against the constrictive concepts of personhood and property.
Matthew Rana will read from Ardour, the latest installment of his ongoing serial poem The Daud.
About the speakers
Kay Gabriel is the author of A Queen in Bucks County (Nightboat, 2022) and Kissing Other People or the House of Fame (Nightboat, 2023). With Andrea Abi-Karam she co-edited We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Nightboat, 2020). Her work has been translated into French, Spanish and Portuguese. She lives in Queens, NY.
Matthew Rana is the author of Ardour: Poems from the Daud (Nion Editions, 2022). His critical writing has appeared in Jacket2, OEI, and The Poetry Project Newsletter, among others, and he is a regular contributor to Frieze. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, and lives and works in Stockholm.
Mia You was born in Seoul, raised in the Bay Area, and currently lives in Utrecht, the Netherlands. She teaches Anglophone literature at Utrecht University and in the Critical Studies program at the Sandberg Institute, and she is currently working on a Dutch Research Council funded project titled "Poetry in the Age of Global English." She is also the author of the poetry collection I, Too, Dislike It (1913 Press, 2016). Forthcoming are the chapbooks Rouse the Ruse and Rush (Nion Editions), Portraits of Beauty from the Eight Regions (Pantano Books), and the full-length collection Festival (Belladonna; Uitgeverij Chaos).
