Sunday June 27 * outside at Rhizome * 5pm * TICKETS
4 POETS AT 5: Berrigan + Lovell + Pieper + Doogan
Four Poets with a range of sensibilities -- from the metaphysical and elegiac, to the playful and ecstatic -- all converge for an afternoon of poetry / performance that engages elements of memory, sound, & song.
Edmund Berrigan is most recently the author of More Gone from City Lights in 2019. Other books include We'll All Go Together (Further and Fewer, 2015) and Can It! (Letter Machine Editions, 2014). Berrigan was the guest blogger for the Poetry Foundation's Harriet Blog in March of 2019, and recently has had essays included in the collections Lovers of my Orchard: Writers and Artists in Frank O'Hara (Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2017) and Joe Brainard's Art (Edinburgh University Press, 2019).
Zack Pieper's work spans poetry, radio, visual art and song. A long sequence from CAMEOS recently appeared at Blazing Stadium 11 (blazingstadium.com). SAME HERE was released by Adjunct Press in 2019. He is the host of ECLOGUES, a program of radio plays on Milwaukee's community-run Riverwest Radio, and is the co-founder of Activities (activitiesarchive.com), an archive of Milwaukee and midwest-based experimental pop music and sound art. Annually, he creates large-scale mosaics of small ghosts drawn on post-it notes in shop front windows & gallery spaces. See many ghosts @zack_pieper.
Mayah Lovell is a Black lesbian latinx from suburban-area D.C. Her artistry roots in carribean transcendence beside Black queer ancestors and awakens by practice in fantasy, neo-erotix, and ritualism. Mayah is also a Biologist researcher in both Genomics and Immunology. Her studies are synthesized by moiling essence through mixed medium—natural, visual, sound, performative, and text. She has exhibited and performed prose art in Connecticut, Philly, Baltimore, and D.C. Her writing lives in Peach Fuzz Mag, Coven Poetry, Stone of Madness Press, etc.
Suzanne Doogan is from Florida and mainly lives in Baltimore, MD. Suzanne does slippy performances of poems, songs, monologues, and other stuff. Their work is inspired by punk rock, the music of walking and riding the bus, and play. She makes zines frequently, released an album on Ehse records a few years ago, and plays with the improv group Mems. They offer their performance in the spirit of liberation for everyone in this world.
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No parking on site — street parking only. 3 blocks from Takoma Metro.
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