Artists Space

Dave Morse is a poet, lampmaker, and amateur handyman in New York, where professionally he has sold books and radical ephemera since 2012 as the co-founder of Better Read than Dead in Brooklyn. He is interested in autodidactic retoolings based mostly on instinct—in his own application, this usually means working with old shitbox vehicles, printed matter, scrap wood, and language. His third poetry collection will come out later this year on Kingston’s 1080 Press.

Anahid Nersessian is a writer living in Los Angeles and a professor of English at UCLA. She is the author of three books, including Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse (2021), and her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Bookforum, The New York Review of Books, Mousse, Bidoun, The London Review of Books, The Yale Review, and elsewhere.