Saturday January 14 * 7pm * TICKETS

Join us for the inaugural reading in a new monthly poetry series: Forget Why.

Kamal Rahim Tanner Tourgee (he/him/his) is a writer, professor and multimedia artist who creates public art, murals, installations, digital video, and sound art. He has been accepted to prestigious artist residencies including MASS MoCA, Washington Project for the Arts, and he was a PBS American Documentary POV Spark African Interactive Art Residency Finalist. His work has been exhibited at Transformer Gallery, School 33 Art Center, the Katherine and Tom Belk Visual Arts Center, ICA Baltimore, the Harn Museum of Art, and has been screened in numerous exhibitions and festivals. As a descendent of enslaved Africans, Free Blacks, and Cherokee Indians, his creative practice is informed by cultural, social, and technological literacies of the Black Radical Tradition. His research interests interrogate identity and community formation in local, national, and diasporic contexts focusing on Blackness, experimental storytelling, resistance movements, and technological structures. Kamal is an electronic musician, DJ and composer via his stage name KAMAL ERRORR. Follow him on Instagram @kamalerrorr and on SoundCloud here.

Amy Eisner teaches creative writing at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), helping visual artists develop as poets and integrate writing into their art practices. Her poetry, noted by Joshua Corey for its "beauty and strife," has appeared in American Literary Review, Fence, Poet Lore and dozens of other journals, as well as a few galleries. Her poems have been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and a foray into book arts was acquired by the University of Richmond library.