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the87press presents HUMMINGBIRDS 2.0: a literary salon with Edgar Garcia, John Wilkinson and Calliope Michail
Saturday August 3, 2024 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Housmans are thrilled to be collaborating with the inimitable 87press to present Hummingbirds 2.0, a literary salon.
The hummingbird is a surrealist motif that symbolises love and dialogue, something which we wish to foster further within poetry and literature. Each salon event offers an intimate space for live poetry readings and discussion.
Hummingbirds 2.0 features Edgar Garcia, John Wilkinson, and Calliope Michail; discussion will be chaired by Azad Ashim Sharma.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
Edgar Garcia is a poet and scholar of the hemispheric cultures of the Americas. He is the author of Skins of Columbus: A Dream Ethnography (Fence Books, 2019), Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu (University of Chicago Press, 2020), and Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis (University of Chicago Press, 2022). He is associate professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Chicago.
John Wilkinson’s most recent books are the poem clusters Wood Circle (The Last Books 2021) and Fugue State (Shearsman 2023). His absentee memoir Colours Nailed to the Mast was published by Shearsman in 2023. An emeritus professor in the Department of English, University of Chicago, he now lives in Cambridge.
Calliope Michail is a London based poet and translator. Poems, collages, watercolour erasures, translations, etc., have appeared in various publications including Snow Lit Rev, Penteract Press, The Hythe, Datableed, Pamenar Press, Lumin and Prototype. She is also the author of the poetry chapbook Along Mosaic Roads (the87press, 2018). She enjoys collaborating with other poets and artists, often for performances at the European Poetry Festival and Camarade series. In the fall, she will start working on a PhD on the poet Iliassa Sequin.
Tickets are free, but advanced booking is strongly recommended.
