POETRY READING BY KIM ROSENFIELD AND MÓNICA DE LA TORRE
5:00P SATURDAY, NOV 9
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ORGANIZED IN CONJUNCTION WITH SUZANNE BOCANEGRA: WARDROBE TEST
Poets and long-time friends Kim Rosenfield and Mónica de la Torre will each read from their individual work followed by a debut collaboration, inspired by Suzanne Bocanegra’s Wardrobe Test, on the nature of vulnerability and the plasticity of structures of femininity, collaboration, and friendship.
ABOUT KIM ROSENFIELD
Kim Rosenfield is a poet and psychotherapist living and practicing in New York City. She is the author of five books of poetry, including Good Morning - Midnight (Roofbooks, 2002); Tràma (Krupskaya Books, 2004; re: evolution (Les Figues Press, 2009); USO: I’ll be Seeing You (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013). She has read and performed for the past three decades in the U.S. and abroad. She is a recipient of a Fund For Poetry grant and is a founding member of the international artist collective, Collective Task. Her clinical writing can be found in Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and in Reconsidering the Moveable Frame in Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2017). Her work has been included in the anthologies Against Expression (Northwestern University Press, 2011), The Gurlesque (Saturnalia, 2010), I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women (Les Figues Press, 2012), and The Unexpected Guest: Art, writing and thinking on hospitality (Liverpool Biennial, ART/BOOKS, 2012).
ABOUT MÓNICA DE LA TORRE
Mónica de la Torre works with and between languages. Her latest book, The Happy End/All Welcome, was published by Ugly Duckling Presse, which also put out her translation of Defense of the Idol by Chilean modernist Omar Cáceres in 2018. Recent writing appears in Artforum, A Public Space, The Literary Review, and Folder. She teaches poetry at Brooklyn College. Repetition Nineteen, her new book of poems, is forthcoming from Nightboat in 2020.
Image: Mónica de la Torre (left) and Kim Rosenfield (right). Photograph by Nikolas Koenig.