Creating Living Archives: On Contemporary Trans Poetics

11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
Lobby Stage

PARKING
https://www.bsomusic.org/visit-joseph-meyerhoff-hall/

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Creating Living Archives is a poetry reading and panel discussion that centers the works of queer and trans-Asian diasporic poets curated by LAWRENCE-MINH BUI DAVIS. Held in a time of major anti-trans legislation and censorship efforts sweeping the country, three trans poets: CHRYSANTHEMUM, NOAH ARHM CHOI, and RIVER 瑩瑩 DANDELION gather to share their work, as well as discuss how they use poetry and the literary arts to document, sustain, and imagine trans futures. They will discuss poetry as possibility. Poet, performance artist, and public historian Chrysanthemum is a recipient of the 2023 Justin Chin Memorial Scholarship from Lambda Literary and a Kundiman fellow. Noah Arhm Choi’s Cut to Bloom, poetry collection won the 2019 Write Bloody Prize. They were nominated for Best of the Net in 2022, shortlisted for the Poetry International Prize, and work as the Director of the Progressive Teaching Institute at a school in New York City. As a practitioner of ancestral medicine through poetry, teaching, energy healing, and creating ceremony, River 瑩瑩 Dandelion is the author of remembering (y)our light. He has performed and presented his work globally from the Dodge Poetry Festival to the University of Havana.

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CityLit Project and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in partnership with Chesapeake Shakespeare Company present CityLit Festival: Dismantling the Culture of Silence. This celebration of the arts showcases a bevy of leading poets and writers on April 20, 2024. We’re talking fiction, nonfiction, poetry galore, and ways to up the ante on your craft.

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