Artists Space

Segue Reading Series:
Shane McCrae & Bob Perelman

Reading
April 25, 2020, 5pm

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

A collection of cartoonish monsters, cutout photographs, and medieval-style drawings are collaged onto an abstracted pastel image of a sunset peeking out over ocean waves. Green, red, and blue text in serif font reads: "The Segue Reading Series & Artists Space present / a virtual reading by / Shane McCrae & Bob Perelman / Saturday, 4/25 / 5pm NYC time / Zoom ID: / 378 232 567.
[A collection of cartoonish monsters, cutout photographs, and medieval-style drawings are collaged onto an abstracted pastel image of a sunset peeking out over ocean waves. Green, red, and blue text in serif font reads: "The Segue Reading Series & Artists Space present / a virtual reading by / Shane McCrae & Bob Perelman / Saturday, 4/25 / 5pm NYC time / Zoom ID: / 378 232 567.]

Shane McCrae’s newest books are The Gilded Auction Block (FSG, 2019) and Sometimes I Have Never Suffered (FSG, 2020). He has received a Whiting Writer’s Award, an NEA fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. He lives in New York and teaches at Columbia.

Bob Perelman's latest book of poetry is Jack and Jill in Troy (Roof), his latest critical book is Modernism the Morning After (Alabama). He now lives in Berkeley, CA.

Listen to the reading by Shane McCrae

Listen to the reading by Bob Perelman

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.