Movietelling: Writing at the Edge of Word + Image
Nair, Marilyn Nelson, Paolo Javier
Frank O’Hara famously said most poets were worse than the movies, but then he’d never heard of Movietelling. It’s a multimedia literary performance genre that’s as new as Youtube and video art and as old as 1920s Japan, where storytellers would “talk” over silent films in lieuof intertitles. Meera Nair (Video), Marilyn Nelson (The Homeplace and The Fields of Praise), and Queens Poet Laureate Paolo Javier (60 lv Bo(e)mbs) read pieces they’ve written in response to the moving image.
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April 24 7:00 PM
Join us for an event at The Strand with San Franciscan attorney and Cartoonist-in-Residence, Eddie Ahn, for a discussion of his debut graphic memoir Advocate: A Graphic Memoir of Family, Community, and the Fight for Environmental Justice. Joining Eddie in conversation is critically acclaimed writer Kristen Radtke.
April 30 6:30 PM
Join McNally Jackson and AAWW to celebrate Sejal Shah's HOW TO MAKE YOUR MOTHER CRY, a collection of genre-queer short stories braided with images and ephemera explore the experiences of growing up and living as a diasporic Gujarati woman searching for home. Sejal will be in conversation with writer, translator, and editor Minna Proctor!
April 30 7:00 PM
Join us for an in-person event at The Strand Book Store to celebrate award-winning author Patricia Park's new young adult novel, What's Eating Jackie Oh? Joining Patricia in conversation is film and television actor, Brian Tee.