Futurepoem Book Launch: Making Water and The Autobiography of a Language
A book launch in celebration of two Futurepoem Fall 2022 titles: Making Water by Laura Jaramillo and The Autobiography of a Language: Essays and Stories by Mirene Arsanios. This event is generously hosted by our friends at Artists Space.
https://artistsspace.org/programs/futurepoem-mirene-arsanios-laura-jaramillo-double-book-launch
The launch will feature readings by Laura, Mirene, and guests Rami Karim, Christopher Pérez, Paige Taggart, and Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts.
Both The Autobiography of a Language: Essays and Stories and Making Water was selected from the 2019 Open Reading Period by guest editors Anne Boyer, Alissa Quart, and Wendy S. Walters.
Laura Jaramillo is a poet and critic from Queens, New York living in Durham, North Carolina. Her previous books include Material Girl (subpress). She holds a PhD in critical theory from Duke University. She co-runs the North Carolina-based reading and performance series, Paradiso.
Mirene Arsanios is the author of the short story collection The City Outside the Sentence (Ashkal Alwan). She has contributed essays and short stories to the e-flux journal, Vida, The Brooklyn Rail, The Rumpus, and Guernica, among others. Arsanios co-founded the collective 98weeks Research Project in Beirut and is the founding editor of Makhzin, a bilingual English/Arabic magazine for innovative writing. She teaches at Pratt Institute and holds an MFA in Writing from the Milton Avery Graduate School for the Arts at Bard College. Arsanios currently lives in New York where she was a 2016 LMCC Workspace fellow, and an ART OMI resident in the fall of 2017. Rachel Valinsky, coordinated the Friday night reading series at the Poetry Project from 2017–19.
The livestream link will be shared with registered Eventbrite users just prior to the event. Autocaptioning will be available.
For accessibility information or accommodations for this event, please visit the Accessibility page for Artists space.
Futurepoem events are supported in part by the National Endowment on the Arts Literary Arts Program, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul, and the New York State Legislature. It is also supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, as well as by the Literary Arts Emergency Fund (2020, 2021), Tamaas, The New York Community, The Leaves of Grass Fund, and Futurepoem’s Individual Donors, Subscribers, and Readers.
Time: 7:00 PM — 9:00 PM EDT
Free!
