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.

Manal Kara is a self-taught Moroccan-American artist, poet, and aspiring doorsmith. Their works have been exhibited with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Outsider Art Fair, White Columns, and galleries, fairs, and artist-run spaces internationally. They lead the ceramics department at ACRE Residency and teach workshops at Poetry Field School.

Simone White is a poet and critic whose books include Warring (forthcoming), or, on being the other woman, Dear Angel of Death, and Of Being Dispersed. She teaches in the English department at UPenn, where she also serves as Associate Faculty Director of Kelly Writers House, and at the MFA program at Bard's Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts.