Brenda Iijima works at the conjunctions of poetry, research movement, playwriting, visual art, and floral-fauna-mineral consciousness. She’s currently collaborating with Janice Lee on ecstatic, genre-defiant writing. Her first play will be published in the spring by elis press and a book of poems, Bionic Communality, is just out from Roof Books.
Simone White is the author of or, on being the other woman (forthcoming from Duke University Press), Dear Angel of Death, Of Being Dispersed, and House Envy of All the World. Her writing has appeared in publications including Artforum, BOMB, e-flux journal, the Chicago Review, and the New York Times Book Review. She teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
This reading is presented as part of the Segue Reading Series.