Artists Space

Segue Reading Series:
Tongo Eisen-Martin & Jennifer Soong

Reading
April 11, 2020, 5pm

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

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[A green poster with white text giving information about a virtual reading event. There is an image at the bottom of a person looking into digital, VR-style goggles with large headphones. Smaller white text in the bottom corner reads, "stay well & be good to each other."]

Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet, movement worker, & educator. His book Someone’s Dead Already was nominated for a California Book Award. His latest book, Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights), was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and won a California Book Award & an American Book Award.

Jennifer Soong is the author of Near, At (Futurepoem). Her poems have appeared in DIAGRAM, Berkeley Poetry Review, & Social Text & have been translated into Spanish. The poetry editor at Nat. Brut., she works on forgetting & poetry at Princeton University.

Listen to the reading by Jennifer Soong

Listen to the reading by Tongo Eisen-Martin

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.

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    [An image of rocks, trees and coastline overlooking a large body of water. Collaged on top of the photograph are cutouts of flowers, carved stones, and a mosaic. Gray text gives details about a virtual reading event, with zoom meeting information written in yellow at the bottom.]