Artists Space

Segue Reading Series:
Brenda Iijima & Simone White

Reading
April 17, 2021, 5pm

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

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Segue Reading Series: Brenda Iijima & Simone White. Reading Documentation. Saturday, March 20, 2021, 5pm. Artists Space, New York. [Video documentation of multiple individuals making introductions and reciting poetry.]

Brenda Iijima works at the conjunctions of poetry, research movement, playwriting, visual art, and floral-fauna-mineral consciousness. She’s currently collaborating with Janice Lee on ecstatic, genre-defiant writing. Her first play will be published in the spring by elis press and a book of poems, Bionic Communality, is just out from Roof Books.

Simone White is the author of or, on being the other woman (forthcoming from Duke University Press), Dear Angel of Death, Of Being Dispersed, and House Envy of All the World. Her writing has appeared in publications including Artforum, BOMB, e-flux journal, the Chicago Review, and the New York Times Book Review. She teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.

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.