Imago to host three poets reading and conversing about ‘Passages(s)’ on March 2
Imago Foundation for the Arts (IFA) will host three poets at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 2 at Imago Gallery, 36 Market Street in Warren, RI., as Kevin McLellan, Antonio Ochoa and Chloe Garcia Roberts read their poetry and converse about “Passages(s)” as part of IFA’s ongoing Poetry Reading and Conversation series.
All are welcome at this free event as the poets talk with each other and the audience and invite attendees to consider the connections and differing perspectives about movement through time, memory, relationships and more.
Kevin McLellan is the author of: Sky. Pond. Mouth. (winner of the 2024 Granite State Poetry Prize selected by Alexandria Peary); in other words you/ (winner of the 2022 Hilary Tham Capital Collection selected by Timothy Liu); Ornitheology; Tributary; Round Trip and the book objects, Hemispheres and [box] which reside in several special collections including the Blue Star Collection at Harvard University. Kevin also makes videos which have appeared in numerous film festivals including: the Berlin Short Film Festival; Flickers’ Rhode Island Film Festival; the LGBTQ+ Los Angeles Film Festival ("Dick" won Best Short Form Short); the Vancouver Queer Film Festival, and others. Kevin lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. https://kevmclellan.com/
Antonio Ochoa is the author of the poetry collections pulsos (Mexico: Libros de Umbral) and El toro de Hiroshima (Mexico: Mangos de Hacha). His book Small Sargassum Mountains/Pequeñas montañas de sargazo is forthcoming from Nightboat. The host of the podcast Texts For Nothing: Conversations with Poets, Ochoa was born in Mexico City and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Chloe Garcia Roberts is a poet and translator from the Spanish and Chinese. She is the author of a book of poetry, Fire Eater: A Translator's Theology and The Reveal, which was published as part of Noemi Press’s Akrilika Series for innovative Latino writing. Her work has appeared in such publications as the Yale Review, BOMB, Conjunctions, and the Kenyon Review. Chloe lives outside Boston and works as deputy editor of Harvard Review, translation editor for the Harvard Library Bulletin, and as a lecturer of poetry at MIT.
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