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🔶🔶🔶This Saturday, June 21st @agit.berlin 🔶🔶🔶Visiting Poets + Local Poets 🔶🔶🔶
🌕Alan Gilbert is the author of four books of poetry, including the ongoing epic poem, The Everyday Life of Design, published in 2024 by Winter Editions. He is also the author of a collection of essays, articles, and reviews entitled Another Future: Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight.
🌕Karla Kelsey is the author of Transcendental Factory: For Mina Loy, a lyric-documentary rendezvous with iconoclastic writer and visual artist Mina Loy (1882–1966), published in 2024 by Winter Editions. She is also the author of five books of poems and a collection of essays entitled Of Sphere.
🌕Christian Hawkey’s most recent full-length book of poetry is Sift (Action Books, 2021). His co-translation (with Marouane Zakhir)of essays by the Moroccan philosopher Abdessalam Benabdelali, titled Writings on Translation, is due out in fall 2025 with Seagull Books’ Elsewhere Texts series, edited by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Hosam Aboul-Ela.
🌕Sylee Gore is a poet who translates German texts on contemporary art and culture. She has lived in Berlin since 2001.
🌕Andy Young teaches at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. Her second full-length collection, Museum of the Soon to Depart, was published in October 2024 from Carnegie Mellon University Press. She and her partner, Khaled Hegazzi, translate poems from Arabic that have been published in Southern Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and the Norton Anthology Language for a New Century. Together, they founded Meena, a bilingual series aimed at creating a port-of-entry from the cities of New Orleans and Alexandria.
🌕Winifred Wong is a Singaporean poet, writer, and performer based in Berlin. Her poetry has appeared in SAND Journal, Softblow, and SingPoWriMo, among others. As a journalist, she covers cultural events and has written for arts institutions such as Esplanade Theatres and news outlet Yahoo!.
Nicola Caroli and Yessica Klein from the Berlin Poetry Collective invite you to co-create their celebration of American poet Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), aka “The Garden Master“.
From 4–7 PM the garden at Found in Wedding will be open for a poetic pop-up ritual, where you can write some poetry using Roethke-inspired prompts, read some of his work and add your own flowers and plants to a greenhouse sketch by artist Kuan Yu Chou, evoking Roethke’s upbringing around his father’s flower business.
There will also be homemade cake & drinks.
After 7 PM, poets and artists take to the stage to share their inspirations and the Garden Master’s words and images.
It’s Gemini season! Join us for the 3rd annual Gemini Show!
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TWINGO
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Each artist remade an existing work of their own. It will be a full exhibition with at least 40 works!
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Join us Friday, 6 June from 19h onward.
There will be a big Gemini birthday cake as well!
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The following artists are participating:
Natalia Bernal
Anči Jovanovic
Susannah Garden
Geoffrey Garrison
Emanuel Geisser
April Gertler
Paulina Gimpel
Gisèle Gonon
Sylee Gore
Geoffroy Grison
Hulda Rós Guðnadóttir
Pierre Etienne Morelle
Océane Moussé
Joe Neave
Steinunn Onnudóttir
Jean Peerbolte
Cornelia Renz
Christopher Sage
Daria Shapovalova
Eva Busch Verni
Witte Wartena