Tickets
General Ticket: $10
Members: Free with RSVP
Join us in the Garden for a Sunday morning reading with writers, David Grundy, poet and author of A Black Arts Poetry Machine: Amiri Baraka and the Umbra Poets, and Hugh Ryan curator and author of The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison. Dive into the impetus behind the work and gain insight into their practices as the two discuss their inspirations and share excerpts from their current work in process. Explore two different genres as David reads from his poetry in process, and Hugh reads from his memoir-in-essays currently underway. A Q&A with those in attendance will take place after the discussion.
This reading has been programmed as part of David and Hugh’s 2024 residency at The Church. For a full line-up and schedule for our upcoming artists-in-residence, visit our website here.
ABOUT THE WRITERS
DAVID GRUNDY
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DAVID GRUNDY is a poet and scholar. He is the author of A Black Arts Poetry Machine: Amiri Baraka and the Umbra Poets (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019), Present Continuous (Pamenar Press, 2022), and A True Account (The 87 Press, 2023), and co-editor, with Lauri Scheyer, of Selected Poems of Calvin C. Hernton (Wesleyan University Press, 2023). Never by Itself Alone: Queer Poetry in Boston and San Francisco, 1943–Present is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2024, and he is currently working on a project on free jazz entitled Survival Music. He co-runs the small press Materials/Materialien.
HUGH RYAN
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HUGH RYAN is a writer and curator, and most recently, the author of The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison, which won the Israel Fishman Stonewall Book Award from American Library Association and the biennial William A. Percy award from the Warren Johansson Foundation. His first book, When Brooklyn Was Queer, won a 2020 New York City Book Award, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice in 2019, and was a finalist for the Randy Shilts and Lambda Literary Awards. He was honored with the 2020 Allan Berube Prize from the American Historical Association.