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Office Hours Broadside Exhibition Artist Conversation (virtual event)

September 24, 2022 @ 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Join us for the Office Hours Poetry Broadside Exhibition Artists’ Conversation! Poets will read their broadside work and then dialogue with their visual artist about the process of designing a unique broadside from concept to design to installation at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division (9/14-9/18/22).

View and purchase the broadsides here!

You can join on Zoom (and engage with the speakers) by registering on Eventbrite. AFTER you’ve registered, please return to the Eventbrite page at the event time (Saturday, 9/24, at 3 PM EDT) and click on “Access the event” (at right, below Tickets ).

This event will also be live-streamed via the Bureau’s YouTube Channel.

It’s free and open to the public!

Office Hours is a community-based writing workshop for poets who show a demonstrated commitment to writing. We office free Craft Classes, Manuscript Editing Workshops, and a weekly writing workshop for fellows. The workshop culminates in a public reading each fall and spring to showcase sizzling new work. For more, visit us at: http://sarahmsala.com/office-hours

 

Participants:

Jardley Jean-Louis is an NYC born award-winning artist, animator, art director, and filmmaker based in Queens, NY. Their work leans on their intersectional identities in Blackness, queerness, and the First (or Second) generation American experience.

 

Born in Arkansas, Lee Maxey lives and works in Brooklyn. Recent exhibitions include Be Not Afraid, a solo show at Olympia, NYC. Lee is an alumna of the Fire Island Artist Residency and the Hercules Studio/Art Program. She received her MFA in 2016 from Boston University and her BFA in 2011 from the University of Central Arkansas.

 

Brandon Menke is a queer poet, designer, and postdoctoral fellow in English at the University of Notre Dame. He received his Ph.D. from Yale and his MFA in poetry from NYU. His work appears or is forthcoming in The Yale Review, Court Green, Post45: Contemporaries, Columbia Journal, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere.

 

Meesh Nah is a multi-disciplinary artist currently working with flowers, watercolor, ink, and acrylic. She draws inspiration from the ground, the skies above, and the spaces in between. She’s currently based in London.

 

Shangyang Fang grew up in Chengdu, China. A Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, his works appeared in The Nation, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, The Best American Poetry, and The Pushcart Prize Anthology. He is the author of the poetry collection, Burying the Mountain (Copper Canyon Press, 2021).

 

James Fujinami Moore’s work has appeared in Barrow Street’s 4×2, The Brooklyn Rail, Guesthouse, The Margins, the Pacifica Literary Review, and Prelude. He has received support from Poets House, Bread Loaf, and the Frost Place, and received his MFA from Hunter College in 2016. He lives in Los Angeles.

 

Holly Mitchell is a poet from Kentucky, now based in New York. Holly’s debut collection, Mare’s Nest, is forthcoming from Sarabande Books in Spring 2023.

Details

Date:
September 24, 2022
Time:
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Venue

Online event
New York, NY United States

Organizer

Bureau of General Services—Queer Division
Email
contact@bgsqd.com
View Organizer Website