The Drift's first poetry reading
Indignation, curiosity, and pain
For the first time ever, The Drift is hosting a poetry reading!
We’ll be hearing from three poets whose work, like the most vital poetry of any era, sounds a little deranged when you try to gloss it. Sasha Debevec-McKenney writes obsessive, deadpan lyrics about U.S. presidents. Grace Nissan’s forthcoming book conjures a world almost entirely out of language borrowed from Thomas More’s Utopia. Benjamin Krusling wraps white space around punctuation, and the glitches somehow, improbably, make the everyday violence of the present feel both realer and less imaginable at the same time.
Different as their work is in form and tone, these poets are all restless and wholly committed to raiding the materials we’ve inherited — archives, argot, urban landscapes, political fact, political fiction — and repurposing them in fresh acts of indignation, curiosity, and pain.
Join us at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 20 at Karma gallery in the East Village. Debevec-McKenney, Nissan, and Krusling will read, then have a conversation moderated by The Drift’s poetry editor, Zoë Hitzig. The event is free and open to the public.
