Artists Space

Segue Reading Series:
Ron Silliman & Tonya Foster

Reading
January 9, 2021, 5pm

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

An image of multiple abstract line drawings. The drawings on the left are depicted in black and the drawings on the right are depicted in a range of colors. Black text over the top half of the image reads "Ron Silliman/ Tonya Foster." Black and white text layed out vertically between drawings reads "Segue" and black text on the lower half of the image reads, "9 January / 5 pm".
Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring Ron Silliman and Tonya Foster. Saturday, January 9, 2021, Artists Space. [An image of multiple abstract line drawings. The drawings on the left are depicted in black and the drawings on the right are depicted in a range of colors. Black text over the top half of the image reads "Ron Silliman/ Tonya Foster." Black and white text layed out vertically between drawings reads "Segue" and black text on the lower half of the image reads, "9 January / 5 pm".]

Segue Reading Series: Ron Silliman & Tonya Foster. Reading Documentation. Saturday, January 9, 2021, 5pm. Artists Space, New York. [Video documentation of multiple individuals making introductions and reciting poetry with the use of imagery.]

In his prime, Ron Silliman was 5’9” but now he is just 5’7”.

Tonya Foster is the author of A Swarm of Bees in High Court, the bilingual chapbook La Grammaire des Os, and most recently A History of the Bitch. She is co-editor of Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art. She was raised in New Orleans, and her family goes way back in Louisiana.

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.