Artists Space

Segue Reading Series:
Lonely Christopher & zakia henderson-brown

Reading
April 4, 2020, 5pm

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

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Lonely Christopher’s writing includes the poetry collections Death & Disaster Series, The Resignation, & In a January Would, a short story collection, The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse, & the novel THERE. His plays were presented in Canada, China, & the US. Film credits include several shorts & the feature MOM, which he wrote & directed. He works for homeless queer youth & lives in Brooklyn. More at lonelychristopher.com.

zakia henderson-brown is the author of What Kind of Omen Am I (2017 PSA Chapbook Fellowship winner). She is a Cave Canem graduate fellow & is supported by Poets House, the Fine Arts Work Center, & the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. zakia is an editor at The New Press & lives in her native Brooklyn.

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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.