Join us for a reading by poet and choreographer Harmony Holiday. Holiday is the author of Negro League Baseball (Fence Books, 2011), Go Find Your Father/A Famous Blues (Ricochet, 2014), and Hollywood Forever (Fence Books, 2016). She also curates the Afrosonics archive of jazz poetics and audio culture, a collection of rare and out-of-print LPs and soundbites featuring poetry and poetics from the African diaspora, which is housed in analog form at Columbia University’s music library and digitally as a Tumblr site. Holiday’s reading takes place within the exhibition Mickalene Thomas: Do I Look Like a Lady?
Mickalene Thomas, Do I Look Like a Lady? (Comedians and Singers) (video still), 2016, two-channel video projection (color, sound), dimensions variable, 12:34 minutes, courtesy of the artist, Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong, and Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Poetry Reading: Harmony Holiday
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Sunday, Oct 30, 2016 3pm
Poetry Reading: Harmony Holiday
Join us for a reading by poet and choreographer Harmony Holiday.