S193. Celebrating Ten Years of Argos Books

Room 210B, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
Saturday, March 7, 2020
12:10 pm to 1:25 pm

 

Argos Books celebrates ten years of publishing innovative poetry and interdisciplinary work that subverts established conventions of genre, form, function, and audience. This reading features poets and fiction writers who span Argos' decade of making chapbooks, writing in translation, full-length poetry collections, cross-genre works, and gatherings that bring diverse literary communities together. 


Participants

Moderator:

Marina Blitshteyn is the author of the full-length collection Two Hunters, published by Argos Books with a CLMP Face-Out grant. Prior chapbooks include Russian for Lovers, Nothing Personal, $kill$, and Sheet Music. She works as an adjunct instructor of composition and literature in NYC.

Sade LaNay (fka Murphy) is a poet and artist. They are the author of ​Härte, ​self portrait, ​Dream Machine, and ​I love you and I’m not dead​. @dichterin.

Luis Othoniel Rosa wrote in Spanish two experimental novels, and a research book on anarchist aesthetics. He studied in Puerto Rico, has a PhD from Princeton and currently teaches at the University of Nebraska. Argos will publish his second novel translated to English, Down with Gargamel!

Poet, publisher, translator, and audio producer Noel Black is the author of three full-length collections: Uselysses, La Goon, and The Natural Football League.

Bianca Stone is a poet and visual artist. Her books include Someone Else’s Wedding Vows, Poetry Comics from the Book of Hours, and The Mobius Strip Club of Grief. She is creative director at the Ruth Stone Foundation in Goshen, Vermont.

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