Artists Space

Valerie Hsiung is a poet who writes between worlds, where language meets ritual and abolition meets afterlife. She is the author of eight full-length books, including The pedestrian, The Naif, The only name we can call it now is not its only name, To love an artist, and outside voices, please. She teaches writing at the limits of language at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University.

Matt Longabucco is the author of poetry collections The Hummingbird and Heroic Dose, and of M/W: An essay on Jean Eustache’s La maman et la putain. He teaches writing, innovative pedagogy, and critical theory at New York University’s Liberal Studies Program, and at Bard College’s Institute for Writing & Thinking.