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Emmanuel Iduma & Zahra Patterson

Emmanuel Iduma is the author of A Strangers Pose, a book of travel stories, and The Sound of Things to Come, a novel. Born and raised in Nigeria, his stories and essays on art appear frequently in journals, magazines, artists books, and exhibition catalogues. He received a 2017 Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation grant in arts writing, and is a faculty member at the School of Visual Arts, New York.

Zahra Patterson is the author of Chronology (Ugly Duckling Presse 2018) and a Community of Literary Magazines and Presses Face Out Fellow. Her short pieces have appeared in Kalyani Magazine and The Felt, and her work has been supported by Mount Tremper Arts. She is a youth educator, and previously directed the community arts project Raw Fiction. Her current research is an investigation of the history of de/segregation in Americas schools. She holds an MFA in Writing from Pratt Institute.

Collaboratively curated, the Friday night series brings writers, artists, critics, performers, and audiences together in an uncontainable assembly. We host readers from here and elsewhere to invite resonances across practices, open and press urgent dialogues, and build a space for shared struggles. Were holding out for writing which has the potential to make things otherwise.