Find out what happens behind the scenes when poetry and film meet. Join us for a screening of award-winning short poem films and discussion between filmmakers and poets who’ve collaborated with the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation’s ongoing Read By poem film series, featuring poets Moncho Ollin Alvarado, Sarah Sala, and Adeeba Shahid Talukder and directors Eric Felipe-Barkin and Matthew Thompson.
This event is presented in partnership with the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation.
Screenings and conversation: 2-3pm, Kray Hall
Refreshments: 3-4pm, Viscusi Reading Room
By attending or participating in this program, you agree to abide by Poets House Community Agreement. Events at Poets House are popular, and seating is first-come, first-seated. We have several seats reserved for people with access needs. If events reach capacity, seating will be available in an overflow viewing room.
About the Poets:
Moncho Ollin Alvarado is a sister in residence in air, a Cihuayollotl trans Xicanx poet, translator, visual artist, and educator. She is the author of Greyhound Americans (Saturnalia Books, 2022), which was the winner of the 2020 Saturnalia Book Prize, selected by Diane Seuss. She has been published in Poets.org, and other publications. She has fellowships and residencies from LAMBDA Literary, The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Troika House, and others.
Sarah Sala is a poet, educator, and native Michigander. She is the author of Devil’s Lake (Tolsun Books 2020), a Distinguished Favorite for the Independent Press Awards, and a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry, among others. As well as the chapbook, The Ghost Assembly Line (Finishing Line Press 2016). Her poem “Hydrogen” was featured in the “Elements” episode of NPR’s hit show Radiolab in collaboration with Emotive Fruition.
Adeeba Shahid Talukder is a Pakistani and Bengali-American poet, vocalist, and translator of Urdu and Persian poetry. She is the author of What Is Not Beautiful (Glass Poetry Press, 2018) and her debut collection, Shahr-e-jaanaan: The City of the Beloved (Tupelo Press, 2020), is a winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Washington Square Review, Gulf Coast, World Literature Today, Aleph Review, and various other publications.
About the Directors:
Eric Felipe-Barkin is a Cuban-American filmmaker, writer, and artist from South Florida. His work has been published by The New York Times, NowThis, the Ford Foundation, and Duke University Press, and his films with the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation have screened in the US, Denmark, Ireland, and Italy. He is currently in pre-production on the return of a very stupid and very beloved streaming show. He serves as senior creative director at VNCS and the head of eStudio VNCS.
Matthew Thompson is an Irish photographer and filmmaker. His films have been exhibited in Dublin and Galway, Ireland, and New York City and Los Angeles, USA. His portrait of Andrew Hozier-Byrne was shortlisted for the Zurich Portrait Award 2020. His personal work primarily concentrates on how conditioning influences perception and has been exhibited in New York, Paris, London, Shenzhen, Helsinki, Belfast, and Dublin.