Jamiah Lincoln, Elisa Wouk Almino, Gabrielle Civil
Thursday, May 2
Doors: 7pm
Reading: 7:30pm
at 2220 Arts+Archives
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RAD! Residencies and the Poetic Research Bureau presents a reading with Jamiah Lincoln, Elisa Wouk Almino, and Gabrielle Civil
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Jamiah Lincoln is a poet, writer, and filmmaker who often eats ice cream for dinner. As an MFA graduate from California Institute of the Arts, Jamiah's work is interested in exploring the intersection of the personal and the political. With a practice born from spoken word, hip-hop, and slam poetry, their work is centered in performance and splatters into visual arts. Their work can be found in anthologies such as Get Lit Rising (2016), or online through platforms such as Teen Vogue (2016), HuffPost (2017), and The EE! (2022).
Elisa Wouk Almino is a writer, editor, and literary translator from Portuguese. She is the translator of THIS HOUSE by Ana Martins Marques (Scrambler Books), and the editor of ALICE TRUMBULL MASON: PIONEER OF AMERICAN ABSTRACTION (Rizzoli). She is currently the deputy editor of Image, the style magazine at the Los Angeles Times. She was formerly a senior editor at Hyperallergic.
Gabrielle Civil is a black feminist performance artist, poet, and writer, originally from Detroit, MI. She has premiered over fifty performance artworks worldwide including Black Weirdo School (Pop Up Critique) (2023), the déjà vu—live (2022) and Jupiter (2021). Her performance memoirs include Swallow the Fish (2017), Experiments in Joy (2019), (ghost gestures) (2021), the déjà vu (2022) and In & Out of Place (2024) Her writing has also appeared in Migrating Pedagogies, New Daughters of Africa, Poem-a-Day, Kitchen Table Translation, and Experiments in Joy: a Workbook. She teaches at the California Institute of the Arts. The aim of her work is to open up space.