Talk

SVA Library presents readings by prominent writers, poets and art critics John Yau and Wayne Koestenbaum. A selection of MFA Art Writing and MA Critical Theory and the Arts students, Sahar Khraibani, Mike Cavuto and Irene Villaseñor, will open up the event by reading their own work. Note: the event will take place in the SVA Library West branch, at 133/141 West 21st Street, lower level.

John Yau has published books of poetry, fiction and criticism. His newest book, Bijoux in the Dark, will be published in April, and his recent poetry publications include a book of poems, Further Adventures in Monochrome (Copper Canyon Press, 2012), and the chapbook, Egyptian Sonnets (Rain Taxi, 2012). His most recent monographs are Catherine Murphy (Rizzoli, 2016), the first book on the artist, and Richard Artschwager: Into the Desert (Black Dog Publishing, 2015). He has also written monographs on A. R. Penck, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol. In 1999, he started Black Square Editions, a small press devoted to poetry, fiction, translation and criticism. He was the arts editor for the Brooklyn Rail (2007 – 2011) before he began writing regularly for Hyperallergic Weekend. He is a professor of critical studies at Mason Gross School of the Arts (Rutgers University).

Wayne Koestenbaum has published 18 books of poetry, criticism and fiction, including Notes on Glaze, The Pink Trance Notebooks, My 1980s & Other Essays, Humiliation, Hotel Theory, Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films, Andy Warhol, Jackie Under My Skin and The Queen’s Throat (a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist).  His new book of poems, Camp Marmalade, will be published in March 2018. He has had solo exhibitions of his paintings at White Columns (New York), 356 Mission (L.A.) and the University of Kentucky Art Museum. His first piano/vocal record, Lounge Act, was issued by Ugly Duckling Presse Records in 2017. He is a Distinguished Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and French at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City.