Danielle LaFrance, Anna Moschovakis, Amanda Ackerman
Saturday, March 4
6pm
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Danielle LaFrance authors the poetry-research books (often accompanied by an essay-form) species branding (Capilano University Editions, 2010), Friendly + Fire (Talonbooks, 2016), JUST LIKE I LIKE IT (Talonbooks 2019), and #postdildo (Talonbooks 2022), a component of a larger project that thinks and writes through the limitlessness and limitations of sexuality, communication, and desire. Other poetry and critical writing have appeared in such magazines and journals as ASAP/Journal, The Capilano Review, LESTE, Tripwire, and Organism for Poetic Research. Their FLOG is an online space for new writing, old musings, and nascent concatenations. She collaborated on a feminist materialist co-reading and journal making endeavour About a Bicycle (with Anahita Jamali Rad) and currently on an intertextual sound project Yes, Sydo (with Josh Rose).
Anna Moschovakis works with poetry and prose as a writer, editor, translator, publisher, teacher, and designer. Her books include the novels Participation and Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love, and poetry books They and We Will Get Into Trouble for This and You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake. Her long poem in process, Preliminary Notes on Risk, was excerpted in a chaplet from Belladonna* and in folder magazine online. She has translated David Diop, Annie Ernaux, Marcelle Sauvageot, Albert Cossery, Robert Bresson and others, and is at work on a collaborative translation (with the author) of Mihret Kebede’s #evolutionarypoems. She is a student of plants and herbalism, a member of Ugly Duckling Presse and of Bushel Collective, an experimental mixed-use storefront space in Delhi, NY, near where she lives.
Amanda Ackerman’s publications include the Book of Feral Flora, the scented pamphlet Air Kissing, and the collaborative book Man's Wars and Wickedness: A Book of Proposed Remedies and Extreme Formulations for Curing Hostility, Rivalry, and Ill-Will, co-authored with Harold Abramowitz. Her work focuses largely on the feralscape, divining techniques that allow for communication across species boundaries and interspecies art-making. With Dan Richert, she has worked with biofeedback and multi-sensory techniques that allow plants to create poems. Their olfactory installation Unknown Giants was part of The Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology’s A New We in Norway’s Kuntshall Trondheim gallery.