Harmony Holiday & Jackie Wang

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

Harmony Holiday & Jackie Wang

Sunday, October 3, 5pm

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Harmony Holiday is a writer, dancer, archivist, and the author of 5 collections of poetry including Hollywood Forever and the forthcoming Maafa (Winter 2021). She curates an archive of griot poetics and a related performance series at LA’s MOCA. She has received the Motherwell Prize from Fence Books, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, a NYFA fellowship, a Schomburg Fellowship, a California Book Award, and a research fellowship from Harvard. She’s currently showing a film commissioned for Made In LA 2020-21, and working on a collection of essays and a biography of Abbey Lincoln, in addition to other writing, film, and curatorial projects.

Jackie Wang is a poet, scholar, multimedia artist, and Assistant Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, where she researches race, surveillance technology, and the political economy of prisons and police. She is the author of Carceral Capitalism (Semiotext(e), 2018), the poetry collection The Sunflower Cast A Spell To Save Us From The Void (Nightboat Books, 2021), and the forthcoming experimental essay collection Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun (Semiotext(e), 2022).

This is an all ages event.

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Readings are supported by a Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts 2021 Organizational Support Grant.