Join the Rail’s November 2023 Critics Page contributors and Guest Critic Pamela M. Lee for a conversation with Rail Managing Editor Charles M. Schultz. We conclude with a poetry reading by Anselm Berrigan.
Joshua Aiken is a doctoral candidate in Law, History, and African-American Studies at Yale University and a former research affiliate at the Duke Center for Firearms Law. He is the winner of the inaugural Palette Poetry Chapbook Prize for his collection to be in & of (2023).
Mary Ellen Carroll / MEC, studios is a conceptual artist/activist. Carroll lives and works in New York City. Her career survey exhibition will open in 2025 at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston with other venues to be announced in the United States, Asia and Europe. In 2018, Carroll cofounded DYKWTCA (Do You Know Where the Children Are?) with Lucas Michael to address critical issues in migration and climate affecting the most vulnerable.
Joseph Mizhakiiyaasige Zordan is a doctoral candidate in the History of Art and Architecture department at Harvard University. His work examines the affectual and political afterlives of colonial violence within Indigenous and American architecture, decorative arts, and painting.
The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we’re fortunate to have
Anselm Berrigan
reading.
Anselm Berrigan
Anselm Berrigan is the poetry editor for the Brooklyn Rail, and author of a number of books of poems, most recently Pregrets, from Black Square Editions.
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