Today You Are Perfect - Suubi, Marchetti, Rose, Harris
In our monthly reading series, "Today You Are Perfect," we bring poets and artists and listeners together to share their words. Afterward, everyone has the option to participate in a small question and answer session.
Hosted by Jennifer MacBain-Stephens // Sponsored by Iowa City Poetry
The Lineup: Tramaine Suubi, Sandra Marchetti, Adrienne Rose, Duriel E. Harris
Date & Time: Tuesday, April 25, 7:00-8:00 pm CT
Location:
- Join us in person for the reading and light refreshments at Porchlight Literary Arts Center, 1019 E. Washington Street, Iowa City.
- Join us virtually via Zoom Webinar by registering for the link at the button below.
Tramaine Suubi
Tramaine Suubi was born in Kampala and speaks four languages. They earned their B.A. in Philosophy and French, and they are currently an M.F.A. candidate at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. While there, they have been awarded the James Patterson Scholarship and the MFA Summer Fellowship. Their poems were most recently published in Prompt Press and longlisted for the Frontier Open Prize. They are an alum of Tin House Summer Workshop and their art is represented by CAA.
Sandra Marchetti
Sandra Marchetti is the author of two full-length collections of poetry, Aisle 228, forthcoming from Stephen F. Austin State University Press (2023), and Confluence from Sundress Publications (2015). She is also the author of four chapbooks of poetry and lyric essays. Sandra’s poetry and essays appear widely in Pleiades, Ecotone, Southwest Review, Subtropics, and elsewhere. Sandy is the Poetry Editor Emeritus at River Styx Magazine. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing—Poetry from George Mason University and now serves as the Coordinator of Tutoring Services at the College of DuPage in the Chicagoland area.
Adrienne Rose
Adrienne Rose has published one chapbook and numerous poems and translations in US and Canadian journals. She is the founding editor of Ancient Exchanges journal of translation, and she directs the undergraduate Translation program at the University of Iowa.
Duriel E. Harris
Performance artist, poet, and scholar Duriel E. Harris is the author of three critically acclaimed
volumes of poetry: Drag (2003); Amnesiac: Poems (2010); and No Dictionary of a Living
Tongue (Nightboat, 2017), finalist for the Audre Lorde Award. Multi-genre works include the
one-woman theatrical performance Thingification, the videopoem collaboration Speleology, and
the conceptual sound-image project Blood Labyrinth. Appearances include performances at the
Greenhouse Theater, the Chicago Jazz Festival, Babylon Cinema (Berlin), Votive (Auckland),
Babel Theatre (Beirut), the University of Ghana, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Festival
Internacional de Poesía de La Habana. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, BAX,
Letters to the Future, Of Poetry and Protest, the &Now Awards, Imagined Theatres, PEN
America, and Poets.org, among others. Harris has served as the University of Chicago Offen
Poet and Teaching Artist at Lynden Sculpture Garden and the Naropa Capitalocene Summer
Writing Program. In partnership with the Poetry Foundation, she is the creator of the O|Sessions
pedagogical initiative and is a Visiting Professor at Iowa Writers’ Workshop for spring 2023.
Professor of English at Illinois State University, Harris is Editor of the award-winning publishing
platform Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora
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