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White Columns, with artist S*an D. Henry-Smith, is pleased to present the second in a series of virtual readings and conversations in celebration of the artist’s exhibition, “in awe of geometry & mornings”.
For this event Henry-Smith will come together in sonic kinship with writer and self-taught craftswoman Joselia Rebekah Hughes, poet Imani Elizabeth Jackson, author Taylor Johnson, writer and literary radio experimentalist Gabrielle Octavia Rucker, and author Nikki Wallschlaeger.
Joselia Rebekah Hughes is a writer and artist based in the Bronx. Her writing has appeared in Ocean State Review and The Poetry Project’s Poems and Texts.
Imani Elizabeth Jackson is from Chicago. Her first book, Flag, is forthcoming from Futurepoem in 2022, and her writings have appeared in Apogee, BOMB, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. She lives in Providence now, where she’s an MFA candidate at Brown.
Taylor Johnson is from Washington, DC. They are the author of Inheritance (Alice James Books, 2020), and their work appears in The Paris Review, The Baffler, Scalawag, and elsewhere. Johnson is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and a recipient of the 2017 Larry Neal Writers’ Award from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. They live in New Orleans where they listen.
Gabrielle Octavia Rucker is a writer & literary radio experimentalist from the Great Lakes. In her writing, waking, and dream lives, she is currently interested in layman earth sciences & ecopoetics. Her debut poetry collection is forthcoming from The Song Cave in 2022.
Nikki Wallschlaeger is the author of Crawlspace (Bloof Books, 2017), Houses (Horseless Press 2015), and the graphic book I Hate Telling You How I Really Feel (Bloof Books, 2019). She lives in the Driftless region of Wisconsin.
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