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Beyond the Page: Lyrics & Line Breaks

  • The Head & The Hand Philadelphia, PA (map)

What happens at the intersection of poetry & music? Join poets Sadie Dupuis, Anni Liu, and Jimin Seo as they discuss craft & process; stay for their readings and performances. We’ll have their books for sale & available to be signed. RSVP on Eventbrite.

Born in the year of the metal goat, Anni Liu is the author of Border Vista (Persea Books), which won the Lexi Rudnitsky Prize and was a New York Times Best Poetry Book of 2022. She’s the recipient of an Undocupoets Fellowship, a Djanikian Scholarship from the Adroit Journal, and residencies at Civitella Ranieri, the Anderson Center, and University of the Arts. She’s an editor at Graywolf Press and lives in Philadelphia.

Sadie Dupuis is the guitarist, songwriter & singer of rock band Speedy Ortiz, as well as the producer & multi-instrumentalist behind pop project Sad13. Sadie heads the record label Wax Nine, edits its poetry journal, and is a regular contributor to Spin, Tape Op, Talkhouse, and more. She holds an MFA in poetry from UMass Amherst, where she also taught writing. Mouthguard, her first book, was published in 2018 (Gramma); Cry Perfume, a second poetry collection, was released in 2022 (Black Ocean). She is an organizer with United Musicians & Allied Workers and its local UMAW Philly.

Jimin Seo was born in Seoul and immigrated to the US to join his family at the age of eight. He is the author of OSSIA, winner of The Changes Book Prize, and the forthcoming chapbook A - 1982 (mercury firs). His most recent projects were Poems of Consumption with H. Sinno at the Barbican Centre in London, and a site activation for salazarsequeromedina's Open Pavilion at the 4th Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism.

 
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