Artists Space

Kamden Hilliard holds a BA in American Studies from the University of Hawai’i at Mãnoa and an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. They are the Anisfield-Wolf Fellow in Publishing and Writing at the Cleveland State University Poetry Center, a reader at Flypaper Lit, and a board member at VIDA: Women In Literary Arts. Their chapbooks include Distress Tolerance and Perceived Distance from Impact.

E.J. McAdams is a poet and artist, exploring language and mark-making in the urban environment using procedures and improvisation with found and natural materials. He has published five chapbooks: '4x4' from unarmed journal press, 'TRANSECTs' from Sona Books, ‘Out of Paradise,’ from Delete Press, ‘Close-range Divinities’ from Shirt Pocket Press, and most recently, 'Middle Voice’ from Dusie Kollectiv. UDP published his 4x4 as its inaugural postcard in the Poste series. He had a solo exhibition, an installation called Trees Are Alphabets, at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, and a mail-art piece in a group show at Phoenix Art Museum. His poems have been published in The Brooklyn Rail, Pamenar Online Magazine, EOAGH, and eccolinguistics among others. Recently, a selection of poems were collected in the anthology Poetics for the More-than-Human World. He curated the Social-Environmental-Aesthetics reading at EXIT ART from 2009-2012 and was a founding board member of the interdisciplinary Laboratory of Art Nature and Dance (iLAND).