Poetry Reading by Asiya Wadud with introduction by Sky Hopinka

Friday, November 8th, 6:30 - 8:00pm

Asiya Wadud is a writer whose latest poetry collections are Mandible Wishbone Solvent and No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body. Other recent work can be found in Interlude Docs, POETRY, e-flux journal, BOMB Magazine and elsewhere. Wadud’s work has been supported by Foundation for the Contemporary Arts, the Foundation Jan Michalski, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Danspace Project, Finnish Cultural Institute of New York, Madhouse Helsinki, Beirut Arts Center and Kunstenfestivaldesarts, among others. She teaches poetry at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn, New York and Pacific Northwest College of Art. (https://www.asiyawadud.com/)

Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) was born and raised in Ferndale, Washington and spent a number of years in Palm Springs and Riverside, CA, Portland, OR, and Milwaukee, WI. In Portland, he studied and taught chinuk wawa, a language indigenous to the Lower Columbia River Basin. His video, photo, and text work centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and landscape–designs of language as containers of culture expressed through personal and non-fictional forms of media. ( https://www.skyhopinka.com/)