Artists Space

Segue Reading Series:
Joyelle McSweeney & Kimberly Alidio

Reading
November 7, 2020, 5pm

This reading is presented as part of the Segue Reading Series.

A group of basketball players sit on a bench, a cutout photograph of a pink flower collaged over each of their heads. On top of the lower half of the image, black text reads "Kimberly Alidio / Joyelle McSweeney" and the lower left corner pink text reads "Segue."
Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring Kimberly Alidio and Joyelle McSweeney. Saturday, November 7, 2020, Artists Space. Artist: Keith Higginbotham [A group of basketball players sit on a bench, a cutout photograph of a pink flower collaged over each of their heads. On top of the lower half of the image, black text reads "Kimberly Alidio / Joyelle McSweeney" and the lower left corner pink text reads "Segue."]

Segue Reading Series: Joyelle McSweeney & Kimberly Alidio. Reading Documentation. Saturday, November 7, 2020, 5pm. Artists Space, New York. [Video documentation of multiple individuals making introductions and reading text.]

Joyelle McSweeney is a poet, playwright, novelist, critic, publisher, and professor. She is the author of ten books including The Red Bird, Flet, The Necropastoral, Percussion Grenade, and most recently Toxicon & Arachne. She is the co-editor of the international press Action Books and lives in South Bend, Indiana where she teaches at Notre Dame.

Kimberly Alidio is the author of the poetry books, why letter ellipses, : once teeth bones coral:, and after projects the resound. Her most recent chapbook is a cell of falls. An excerpt from her forthcoming book, AMBIENT MOM, is a finalist in the 2020 BOMB Poetry Contest. She lives in Arizona.

Program support for Artists Space is provided by The Friends of Artists Space, Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, The Cowles Charitable Trust, The Cy Twombly Foundation, The David Teiger Foundation, The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The New York Community Trust, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, The Stavros Niarchos Foundation, The Willem de Kooning Foundation, The Danielson Foundation, The Fox Aarons Foundation, Herman Goldman Foundation, The Destina Foundation, The Luce Foundation, May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, VIA Art Fund, Arison Arts Foundation, The Chicago Community Fund, The David Rockefeller Fund, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, The Jill and Peter Kraus Foundation, The Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation.