Artists Space

Segue Reading Series: Patricia Spears Jones & Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi

Saturday, May 9
5pm
11 Cortlandt Alley & Online
Broadcasting here

Black text on a light green background. The text reads: “May 9 / Patricia Spears Jones / Khashayar "Kess" Mohammadi.” Text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)"
[Black text on a light green background. The text reads: “May 9 / Patricia Spears Jones / Khashayar "Kess" Mohammadi.” Text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)"]

Patricia Spears Jones is the recipient of the 2017 Jackson Poetry Prize and author of A Lucent Fire: New and Selected Poems, three other collections, and five chapbooks. Her poems are widely anthologized, and recent work is published in The New Yorker and The Brooklyn Rail.

Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi is an Iranian-born, Toronto-based poet and translator. They are the winner of the 2021 Vallum Poetry Prize and the author of four poetry chapbooks and three translated poetry chapbooks. They were shortlisted for the 2021 Austin Clarke poetry prize, 2022’s Arc Poem of the Year award, The Malahat Review’s 2023 Open Season awards for poetry, and The Fiddlehead’s 2024 Ralph Gustavson Award.