Artist Robin Coste Lewis joins Rail editor Joan Kee for a conversation. We end with a poetry reading.
The new social environment #809
Recorded on Friday May 12, 2023 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern / 10:00 a.m. Pacific
https://brooklynrail.org/events/2023/05/12/robin-coste-lewis-intimacy
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In this conference:
Robin Coste Lewis —— Robin Coste Lewis is the author of Voyage of the Sable Venus, winner of the National Book Award for Poetry and a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, among other honors. A former poet laureate of Los Angeles, she holds a doctorate in poetry and visual studies from the University of Southern California. His work has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review and numerous other journals. Lewis, who has taught at Hampshire College, Hunter College, Wheaton College, and the NYU MFA in Paris, is writer-in-residence at USC. Lewis is the author, most recently, of To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness, winner of the 2023 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry.
• https://www.instagram.com/robincostelewis
Joan Kee —— Professor Joan Kee teaches art history at the University of Michigan and is a Ford Foundation Fellow in Residence at MoMA. His upcoming book, The Geometries of Afro Asia: Art Beyond Solidarity, focuses on Black and Asian artists and the dynamic worlds they initiate through their works and will be published by the University of California Press in April. Kee's other books include Models of Integrity: Art and Law in Post Sixties America (2019) and Contemporary Korean Art: Tansaekhwa and the Urgency of Method (2014). An occasional public interest attorney in Detroit, she is an editor at the Brooklyn Rail.
• On the rail: https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/joan-kee
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