Segue Reading Series

A Gathering of the Tribes Executive Director Regie Cabico and poet Drew Pisarra co-curate this fall's lineup in the Segue Reading Series at Artists Space. 

OCT 5

Joan Larkin’s newest book, Old Stranger, is her sixth collection of poems. Previous titles include My Body: New and Selected Poems, winner of the Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde award. A lifelong teacher and poet, she has recently begun publishing short fiction.

Malcolm Tariq is a poet and playwright from Savannah. He is the author of Heed the Hollow, winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, and the 2020 Georgia Author of the Year Award in Poetry. He lives in Brooklyn and is the senior editorial manager for PEN America's Prison and Justice Writing Program.

OCT 12

Nancy Mercado received the American Book Award for Lifetime Achievement. She has been featured at Lincoln Center, The Whitney Museum, and the University of Nantes in France, among others. Mercado has authored two books, seven theater plays, and has edited three anthologies. For more info: Nancy-Mercado.com.

Sloppi Chulo is an actor, playwright, rapper, burlesque performer, and model who has been posing for drawing workshops and bachelorette parties for over a decade. There Once Was a Muse..., a collection of limericks and figurative art based on these adventures in the buff, is his first book of poems.

OCT 19

Xavier Cavazos is a grand slam champion of the NuYoRican Poets Cafe. He is the author of three collections: Barbarian at the Gate, Diamond Grove Slave Tree, and The Devil’s Workshop (Editor’s Choice Award from Cleveland State University Poetry Center). Cavazos is a senior poetry editor for Poetry Northwest and directs the Liberal Studies Program at Central Washington University.

Pamela Booker is 2024 NJ State Council on the Arts / Mid Atlantic Arts Prose Fellow for the manuscript Dill’s Mirrors and the Lizzies. An interdisciplinary writer, her publications are featured in various outlets, including the Duke University Press. She’s in the Teaching-Faculty in Writing Studies / Theater Arts at Montclair State University.

OCT 26

Cheryl Boyce-Taylor is the author of seven collections of poetry. In 2021 her verse memoir, Mama Phife Represents, won The Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. It is about her son, Malik, aka Hip Hop Legend, Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest. Her latest collection, The Limitless Heart: New and Selected Poems, won the 2024 CLMP Firecracker Award in Poetry.

Thomas Fucaloro has won grants from the Staten Island Council of the Arts, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, NYC Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes, and NYC Commission of Human Rights. He holds an MFA from the New School and is a founding editor of Great Weather for Media and NYSAI press. He is an adjunct professor at Wagner College, BMCC and CSI.  

NOV 2

LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs is the author of Village and TwERK. She is co-editor of Coon Bidness/SO4. Diggs received a 2020 C.D. Wright Award for Poetry from the Foundation of Contemporary Art, a Whiting Award (2016), and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship (2015). She lives in Harlem and teaches at Brooklyn College.

Modesto Flako Jimenez is an artist who loves creating DOPE work with DOPE people. Stay tuned to upcoming work such as Reconstructing (Still Working but the Devil Might Be Inside) and Mercedes, Part 1 at BAM – via oyegroup.org and/or flakojimenez.com.

NOV 9

Norman Fischer is a poet, essayist, and Soto Zen Buddhist priest. Poetry titles are Nature, There Was a Clattering As…, The Museum of Capitalism, Men in Suits, and most recently Through a Window. His Selected Poems 1980-2013 came out in 2022. He lives in Muir Beach CA with his wife Kathie, also a Zen priest. He is the founder of the Everyday Zen Foundation (wwww.everydayzen.org)

The New York Neo-Futurists are an ensemble that writes and performs work rooted in our lived experiences. In our 20th year, they are best known for our high-energy late-night show, THE INFINITE WRENCH, that fuses elements of poetry, game, and performance art. Currently based in the West Village, to date they have premiered 7,100 plays.

NOV 16

Jee Leong Koh is the author of Steep Tea, named a Best Book of the Year by UK’s Financial Times. His Snow at 5 PM won the Singapore Literature Prize. He heads the literary nonprofit Singapore Unbound, the press Gaudy Boy, and the journal SUSPECT.

Thaddeus Rutkowski is the author of eight books, including two of poetry: Border Crossings and Tricks of Light. His most recent book is Safe Colors, a novel. He teaches at Medgar Evers College, Columbia University, and a YMCA. He received a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

NOV 23

Anne Waldman is the author of over 60 plus volumes of poetry, poetics, and anthologies including The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in The Mechanism of Concealment which won the Pen Center Literary Prize. Waldman co-founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics program at Naropa University with the most celebrated poets in America, the Beat Generation. Recent books include Bard,Kinetic,  Tendrel: A Meeting of Minds, Mesopotopia and the album “Astral Omens.”

No Land’s art & poetry books include Authentic Artifice and The Velvet Wire, co-authored with Anne Waldman. She has performed at The Poetry Project, Giorno Poetry Systems, Rewire Festival, Jazzfest Berlin, Tribes Gallery, Roulette, and with the Ginsberg Estate. Her art & cinema works are in the Whitney Museum digital collection, Fotografiska Museum, Zebra Poetry Film Festival, and on the street corners of NYC.

Joey De Jesus authored HOAX Limited Artist Set and the chapbooks We Animate the Dream: A Poet’s Run for Public Office  and NOCT-  The Threshold of Madness. Recipient of a BRIC ArtFP Project Room Commission, Joey is co-editor at Apogee Journal and lives in Ridgewood, Queens where they ran for NY Assembly District 38 in 2020.