Artists Space

Segue Reading Series:
Kay Gabriel & Asiya Wadud

Reading
May 15, 2021, 5pm

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

Segue Reading Series: Kay Gabriel & Asiya Wadud. Reading Documentation. Saturday, May 15, 2021, 5pm. Artists Space, New York. [Video documentation of multiple individuals making introductions and reciting poetry.]

Kay Gabriel is a poet and essayist. With Andrea Abi-Karam, she co-edited We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Nightboat, 2020). She’s also the author of the forthcoming collections Kissing Other People or the House of Fame (Rosa Press, 2021) and A Queen in Bucks County (Nightboat, forthcoming 2022).

Asiya Wadud is the author of Crosslight for Youngbird, day pulls down the sky/ a filament in gold leaf (with Okwui Okpokwasili), Syncope, and No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body. Her recent writing appears in e-flux, BOMB, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn, where she teaches poetry to children.

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.