Artists Space

Segue Reading Series:
Nicholas Glastonbury & John Keene

Reading
March 6, 2021, 5pm

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

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Segue Reading Series: Nicolas Glastonbury & John Keene. Reading Documentation. Saturday March 6, 2021, 5pm. Artists Space, New York. [Video documentation of multiple individuals making introductions and reciting poetry with the use of imagery.]

Nicholas Glastonbury is a translator of Turkish and Kurdish literature. His translation of Every Fire You Tend by Sema Kaygusuz was shortlisted for the TA First Translation Prize by the Society of Authors. He is a doctoral candidate in cultural anthropology at CUNY Graduate Center.

John Keene is the author and co-author of a handful of books, including the award-winning collection, Counternarratives, and the forthcoming collection Punks. He received a 2018 Windham-Campbell Prize and a 2018 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. His translation projects include poetry, fiction and essays from Portuguese, French and Spanish, among them the Brazilian writer Hilda Hilst’s novel Letters from a Seducer. His essay, “Translating Poetry, Translating Blackness,” featured on the Poetry Foundation’s blog Harriet, has helped to encourage and galvanize translators of Black non-Anglophone writing, and he serves as a member of organizational committee for the African Poetry Book Series, under the auspices of the University of Nebraska’s African Poetry Book Fund and Prairie Schooner. He chairs the Department of African American and African Studies and is Distinguished Professor of English and African American Studies at Rutgers University Newark.

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.