Reading and performance featuring poupeh missaghi’s Sound Museum, with Bo Hwang, Brian Alarcon, Valerie Hsiung, and Neshat Sadatmansoori, Thursday, November 14, 2024, 7pm

Join us on Thursday, November 14, 7pm for author poupeh missaghi joined by artists and writers Brian Alarcon, Bo Hwang, Valerie Hsiung, and Neshat Sadatmansoori, to celebrate the publication of Sound Museum, a Theory Fiction (Coffee House Press, October 2024). The event invites the audience to a live sound performance that deconstructs the concept of the Sound Museum by creating a collage of sounds, music, and images in conversation with the book.

With special thanks to Shreeya Shrestha for production assistance and set build.

Brian Alarcon is a Colombian-American poet, performance and visual artist from Queens, New York, currently an Allen Ginsberg fellow at the Jack Kerouac School. His poetry crosses the borders between mediums and industries, having performed at art galleries, for media clients such as Versace and Drome Magazine, non-profits like the Queer | Art Foundation and City Artists Corps, and so on.

Bo Hwang is an artist and writer working with poetry, movement and stories. Her work leans surreal and explores mundane dross, mongrels, and other tropical fecundity. She taught movement workshops at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics where she was the 2022 Anselm Hollo Fellow and has performed across The Front Range. Her essay work, Squat Practice, was a Finalist for the 2024 Essay Press Chapbook Contest. She was born in the U.S. and raised in Indonesia.

Valerie Hsiung is a poet and the author of eight collections of poetry, prose, and hybrid writing, including The pedestrian (Nightboat Books, forthcoming), The Naif (Ugly Duckling Presse), The only name we can call it now is not its only name (Counterpath), and To love an artist (Essay Press). Born in the Year of the Earth Snake and raised by Chinese-Taiwanese immigrants in Cincinnati, Ohio, she now lives in the mountains of Colorado where she teaches at Naropa’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.

Neshat Sadatmansoori is an Iranian writer with a BA in cinema. She is invested in interdisciplinary work and explores themes of nihilism, death, and transgression. She left Tehran to retranslate her country in a new language without censorship, a task she is starting to think is impossible. She is currently an Anne Waldman fellow at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.

poupeh missaghi is a writer, editor, translator (between English and Persian) and educator. Her books include Sound Museum (2024) and trans(re)lating house one (2020), both with Coffee House Press. Her translations include Boys of Love by Ghazi Rabihavi (University of Wisconsin Press, 2024), In the Streets of Tehran by Nila (Bonnier Books, 2023), and I’ll be Strong for You by Nasim Marashi (Astra House, 2021). She is currently an assistant professor of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver, and a faculty mentor at the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR.