Poetry Reading: Dolores Dorantes, Tim Johnson, and Lynn Xu

Thu May 09 2024 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm UTC-05:00

Woodland Pattern Book Center, Inc. | Milwaukee

Woodland Pattern Book Center
Publisher/HostWoodland Pattern Book Center
Poetry Reading: Dolores Dorantes, Tim Johnson, and Lynn Xu
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Poetry Reading & Conversation featuring Dolores Dorantes and poet, artist, and editor, Tim Johnson. Curated and hosted by Lynn Xu.
About this Event

Dolores Dorantes is the Executive Director of Mujer Migrante, publisher of Hoja Frugal, a journalist, writer, therapist, poet, performer, and sacred animal. She is a Mexican born in the mountains of Veracruz in 1973 but raised in Ciudad Juárez, right next door to El Paso, which is just across the US border. In 2011, she fled her country and was granted political asylum in Los Angeles. Dorantes is Black and Nahua Indigenous on her mother's side, Spaniard and mestiza on her father's side. Recent books translated into English are Copy (Wave Books, 2022), The River, a collaboration with the artist Zoe Leonard (Gato Negro Ediciones, 2019), and Style (Kenning Editions, 2016). Her socio-cultural writings and political-social reflections, along with the majority of her books, are part of the commons at www.doloresdorantes.blogspot.com. She believes in a United Latin America.

Tim Johnson is a poet, artist, and editor based in Marfa, Texas. With his partner Caitlin Murray he owns and operates the Marfa Book Company through which he oversees an exhibition, publication, film, music, and performance series. His poems and translations have appeared in many publications, including the Paris Review; Eights, a survey of experimental writing; and Adventures, edited by David Senior. He has curated and presented exhibitions by Rosa Barba, Santa Barraza, James Benning, Luis Camnitzer, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Van Hanos, Roni Horn, Aaron Flint Jamison, and Charles Mary Kubricht. He edited Sensuous Thoughts: Essays on the Works of Donald Judd, a selection of essays by the art historian Richard Shiff, for Hatje Cantz in 2020; and he coedited the publication, The Present Order: Writings on the Work of Ian Hamilton Finlay, with Caitlin Murray in 2010.

Born in Shanghai, Lynn Xu is the author of (Wave, 2022) and (Omnidawn, 2013) and the chapbooks: June (Corollary Press, 2006) and Tournesol (Compline, 2021). She has performed cross-disciplinary works at the MOCA Tucson, Guggenheim Museum, The Renaissance Society, Rising Tide Projects, and 300 S. Kelly Street. She teaches at Columbia University, co-edits Canarium Books, and lives with her family in New York City and West Texas.

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Woodland Pattern Book Center, Inc., 720 East Locust Street, Milwaukee, United States

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