Artists Space

Segue Reading Series:
Martine Bellen & Uche Nduka

Reading
April 2, 2022, 5pm

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

Black text overlays a white background with a blue bunch of flowers in the lower right corner. The top left corner reads: “Martine Bellen / & Uche Nduka / April 2, 5pm.” The middle reads: “Segue Reading Series & ARTISTS SPACE.” The bottom left reads: “11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom / Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519.”
Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring Martine Bellen & Uche Nduka. April 2, 2022, Artists Space. [Black text overlays a white background with a blue bunch of flowers in the lower right corner. The top left corner reads: “Martine Bellen / & Uche Nduka / April 2, 5pm.” The middle reads: “Segue Reading Series & ARTISTS SPACE.” The bottom left reads: “11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom / Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519.”]

Martine Bellen is the author of nine collections of poetry, including This Amazing Cage of Light: New and Selected Poems; The Vulnerability of Order; Tales of Murasaki and Other Poems, which was a winner of the National Poetry Series. An Anatomy of Curiosity is forthcoming from MadHat Press.

Uche Nduka—poet, essayist, collagist—is the author of twelve volumes of poems of which the latest are Living in Pubic (Kristiania Collective 2018) and Facing You (City Lights, 2020). His latest book, Scissorwork, is forthcoming from Roof Books in Spring 2022. Nduka's writing has been translated into German, Turkish, Finnish, Italian, Arabic, Romanian. He has given readings and lectures at universities, clubs, galleries, festivals, sitting rooms and other venues in Africa, Europe, and America. He presently lives and teaches Literature and Creative Writing in New York City (CUNY-Queens College).