Artists Space

Segue Reading Series:
Jennifer Nelson & Evan Kennedy

Reading
November 28, 2020, 5pm

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

Two figures are pictured side by side in matching clothes. A cutout picture of a head, its mouth wide open, is collaged on top of the figure on the left side. White and black text over the image reads "Evan Kennedy / Jennifer Nelson / Segue."
Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring Evan Kennedy and Jennifer Nelson. Saturday, November 28, 2020, Artists Space. Artist: Keith Higginbotham [Two figures are pictured side by side in matching clothes. A cutout picture of a head, its mouth wide open, is collaged on top of the figure on the left side. White and black text over the image reads "Evan Kennedy / Jennifer Nelson / Segue."]

Segue Reading Series: Jennifer Nelson & Evan Kennedy. Reading Documentation. Saturday, November 28, 2020, 5pm. Artists Space, New York. [Video documentation of multiple individuals making introductions and reciting poetry.]

Jennifer Nelson is the author of the poetry collections Civilization Makes Me Lonely, Aim at the Centaur Stealing Your Wife, and the forthcoming Harm Eden as well as the scholarly book Disharmony of the Spheres: The Europe of Holbein’s Ambassadors. She teaches in the department of Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Evan Kennedy is a poet and bicyclist who lives in San Francisco. He is the author of Terra Firmament, Us Them Poems, The Sissies, and I am, am I, to trust the joy that joy is no more or less there now than before.

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.