Artists Space

Segue Reading Series: Stephon Lawrence & Manuel Paul López

Reading
April 27, 2024, 5pm

11 Cortlandt Alley & Online
Broadcasting here

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

Black text overlays a pixelated gradient pattern in various hues of pink and yellow. The text reads: “April 27 / Stephon Lawrence / Manuel Paul López.” Text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)"
[Black text overlays a pixelated gradient pattern in various hues of pink and yellow. The text reads: “April 27 / Stephon Lawrence / Manuel Paul López.” Text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)"]

Stephon Lawrence is a Brooklyn poet interested in otherworldly poetics and the cultivation of emancipatory poetic spaces for sentiments that have been marginalized, displaced, or estranged from the dominant culture. u know how much i hate being alone in social situations// is her first full-length collection of poetry.

Manuel Paul López’s books include Nerve Curriculum, These Days of Candy, The Yearning Feed, and Death of a Mexican and Other Poems. A Canto Mundo fellow, his work has been published in Denver Quarterly, Fairy Tale Review, Huizache, New American Writing, Puerto del Sol, and The Rumpus.

Artists Space Venue is generously supported by Lonti Ebers, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Allan Schwartzman, David Zwirner, and an anonymous contributor.