Artists Space

Segue Reading Series:
Mónica de la Torre & Joan Retallack

Reading
January 23, 2021, 9:35pm

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

An animated setting of an icy background with miscellaneous objects and imagery appearing throughout. Light green text over the top half of the image reads, "Monica De La Torre / Joan Retallack". Light green text in the center left of the image at a left-slanted angle reads, "SEGUE." On the left hand corner in light green text reads, "23 January" and on the right hand corner in light green text reads, "5PM EST."
Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring Monica de la Torre and Joan Retallack. Saturday, January 23, 2021, Artists Space. [An animated setting of an icy background with miscellaneous objects and imagery appearing throughout. Light green text over the top half of the image reads, "Monica De La Torre / Joan Retallack". Light green text in the center left of the image at a left-slanted angle reads, "SEGUE." On the left hand corner in light green text reads, "23 January" and on the right hand corner in light green text reads, "5PM EST."]

Segue Reading Series: Monica de la Torre & Joan Retallack. Reading Documentation. Saturday, January 23, 2021, 5pm. Artists Space, New York. [Video documentation of multiple individuals making introductions and reciting poetry with the use of imagery.]

Mónica de la Torre’s Repetition Nineteen is just out from Nightboat Books. Other books include The Happy End/All Welcome—a riff on a riff on Kafka’s Amerika—and Public Domain. She co-edited the anthology Women in Concrete Poetry 1959–79 and teaches at Brooklyn College.

Joan Retallack’s most recent volume—BOSCH’D—was released on April Fools Day, 2020. The rest is neither the beginning nor the end of history.

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.