Friday 6 October 2023, 7pm
the87press invites you to celebrate the launch of 5 new collections of poetry. Spanning translations from French, Spanish and Taino, alongside English Language poetry, these collections combine the flair of class solidarity, revolutionary poetics, and sharp tongued decoloniality. This event is a must attend! the87press also welcomes Jwarn on the decks, an independent label co-founder and Subtle Radio regular. All books will be on 25% discount and sold directly by the87press. Each poet will read for 15 minutes.
Poets:
Juana Goergen and Silvia Tandeciarz
Emné Nasereddine and Stuart Bell
David Grundy
Sabeen Chaudhry
Aaron Kent
DJ: Jwarn
Juana Iris Goergen (Puerto Rico). Poet and Emerita Professor at DePaul University, Chicago. Visiting Professor at InterAmerican University, Arecibo, Puerto Rico. She has published La sal de las brujas (finalist of Letras de Oro Awards, Betania 1997,) La piela medias (2003,) Las Ilusas/Dreamers (in Desarraigos, contratiempo, 2008) and Mar en los huesos (Pandora/Lobo estepario, 2017.) Her poetry has been published in numerous anthologies, most recently, LatinUsa (Mexico, 2018). She was initiator and co-organizer for eleven years of the Chicago International Poetry Festival Poesía en abril. She has edited nine poetry anthologies, among them: Susurros para disipar las sombras, Rapsodia de los sentidos and Ciudad Cien en (Erato Poesía, Poesía en abril Chicago). She has been awarded contratiempo Poesía/Cultura Award, 2014 and the José Revueltas Poetry Award, 2018. At the moment she is working on two poetry collections La celda del iris/ Iris prison cell (under review) and Requiem al sueño americano: otro “Canto general”/ Requiem to the American Dream: another “Canto general.” In 2019 she was honoured by the International Poetry Festival Poesía en Abril Committee and at DePaul University with a poetry award that bears her name, the Juana Iris Goergen Poetry Award.
Silvia R. Tandeciarz holds a B.A. and M.A. in English from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Literature from Duke University. She is Chancellor Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures and Vice Dean for Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies at William & Mary, where she has worked since 1999. A translator, poet, and scholar in the field of Latin American Cultural Studies, she has published widely on the intersections between memorial and human rights initiatives in postdictatorship Argentina. Her most recent book, Citizens of Memory: Affect, Representation, and Human Rights in Postdictatorship Argentina (2017,Bucknell University Press) appeared in Spanish in 2020. In addition to the poems of Puerto Rican poet Juana Goergen, her work in translation includes the book-length critical treatises Masculine/Feminine (Duke University Press, 2004) and The Insubordination of Signs (Duke University Press, 2004), both by the Chilean theorist Nelly Richard. She is the author of the poetry collection Exorcismos (Betania, 2000).
Emné Nasereddine was born in France in 1990 and grew up in Lebanon where she studied French literature at the Saint Joseph University in Beirut. Her poetry explores her experiences of immigration, loss and mourning, the lives of Lebanese women, and the customs and traditions of southern Lebanon. The Dance of the Fig Tree is her first book and was runner-up in the 2021 Émile-Nelligan Prize. She lives in Montreal.
Stuart Bell is a translator of French literature. He studied Modern Languages at the University of Cambridge where he was later Translator in Residence (2021). His previous publications include Bird Me (2021), which was shortlisted for the 2022 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize, and Yo-yo Heart which was selected by the Poetry Book Society as their 2022 Winter Translation Choice. He also edited the 2021 collection Moving Impressions: Essays on Art and Experience, the inaugural issue of The South London Cultural Review.
David Grundy is a poet and scholar based in London. He is the author of Present Continuous (Pamenar Press), and A Black Arts Poetry Machine: Amiri Baraka and the Umbra Poets (Bloomsbury Academic) and co-editor, with Lauri Scheyer, of Selected Poems of Calvin C. Hernton (Wesleyan University Press). He co-runs the small press MATERIALS/MATERIALIEN.
Sabeen Chaudhry writes poetry, theory and fiction. She has been published in magazines such as Worms, Gutter and SPAM, and in journals including Chiasma, and Journal for Cultural Research. She regularly collaborates with artists, most recently for the Singapore Biennale 2022-23, and with collectives like Foreign Objekt and DEMO Moving Image. She also co-edits Deleuzine. Rimming the Event Horizon is her first collection.
Aaron Kent is a working-class writer and publisher from Cornwall. His work has been praised by J. H. Prynne, Gillian Clarke, Andrew McMillan, Andre Bagoo, Anthony Vahni Capildeo, Abdul Kadeer El-Janabi, Ian Duhig, and John McCullough. His poetry has been translated into Latvian, French, Persian, and Kernewek (Cornish). Aaron was awarded the Awen medal from the Bards of Cornwall for his poetry pamphlet The Last Hundred.
Forever a humble student of the dancefloor, Jimmy Two Shoes is inspired by music and its capacity for creating those magical moments. As a Subtle Radio resident and multi-genre label boss of Sub Merchants, Jwarn seamlessly navigates an array of bass-infused flavors, delivering the flows to wriggle your toes to.
