I’m delighted to have two poetry readings coming up this fall! First one will be on Friday, October 25th at 7:30 PM at United Colors Gallery (611 N 6th St, Kansas City, KS 66101) in celebration of SK Reed’s solo exhibition The Unreal. Thanks to New Material Books for inviting me read with Megan Kaminski, Jordan Stempleman, and Bob Sykora!
“The Unreal by SK Reed is an exercise in being unrecognizable and a practice of possibility. Reed’s ceramic wall pieces are reflections on species encountered during walks in the shrinking Kansas Prairie, a space which provides great relief and inspiration from their everyday anxieties. For the artists, the difficulty and strength of their Queerness is the struggle to be easily named. Not at home in the gender binary, they often feel they are living between dueling realities. When familiarizing themselves with the wildly diverse prairie landscapes, dreams and fantasy take over, opening a place of possibility which expands their understanding of reality.” (Source: United Colors Gallery)
I hope you will come out and enjoy some poetry, some art, and maybe buy something from the book-store popup—I’m planning to snag a New Materials Book x Space Dust Editions poem-object of the first book of Paradise Lost ❤️🔥 And if you can’t make this one, I’ll be reading with Marianne Kunkel, hosted by Bear Review at 21c Museum Hotel on Nov. 7th—more details soon!
