To repair to return: an evening of art and poetry

Please join Songbird Studio (50 Liberty Street, Beacon NY) on Sunday, June 8 at 7:00pm for an evening of art and poetry featuring artist Annabel Daou and poet Jennifer MacKenzie.

MacKenzie and Daou’s works tell stories of life in ruined and ruining empire – set in Beirut, Damascus, Istanbul, New York and other devastated, blossoming human landscapes. The wound will not be put in the past. Its persistence opens the possibility of layering on the residues of new meaning: what lies beneath and between, eruptions of joy, revelations of the queering body, the resonance of a momentary exchange. 

Jennifer MacKenzie’s books are My Not-My Soldier (Fence) and pain survey (Inlandia). She lives in the Bronx and teaches at Lehman College, CUNY. Follow her jwmjwmqwerty

Annabel Daou’s recent solo exhibitions and performances include I will worry for you (as night falls) at Beirut Art Center; and as if they were sure…