FEB 28 | 7:00pm at McNally Jackson Seaport
Brave, Unbodied Scheme featuring
charles theonia, Kimberly Alidio, Bianca Rae Messinger, and Sahar Khraibani
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Join us at the McNally Jackson Seaport, manhattan’s own coastal refuge, as we present an evening featuring a range of brilliant minds from NYC's poetry scene.
The title for this new monthly series comes from Herman Melville’s poem “Art”. Poetry, wine, and the sea have always been inextricably intertwined. This reading series seeks to highlight poets from all over the city, and give them a backdrop of McNally Jackson’s bar to read their new work. Join us to hear poems, drink wine, and enjoy the “pulsed life”.
This month's reading features charles theonia, Kimberly Alidio, Bianca Rae Messinger, and Sahar Khraibani.
charles theonia is the author of Gay Heaven Is a Dance Floor but I Can't Relax (Archway Editions), If a Piece Falls off the Poem, Keep It (Belladonna*) and other writings on zits, piss, and disco.
Kimberly Alidio is the author of Traceable Relation (Fonograf Editions, 2025); A Teaching Summer (Spiral Editions, 2024); Teeter (Nightboat Books, 2023), winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize and the Lambda Literary Award; and others. Her essays have appeared in e-flux, Poetry Foundation, American Quarterly, Social Text, Journal of American History, and Filipino Studies: Palimpsests of the Nation and Diaspora. She lives on the unceded territories of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians along the Mahicannituck River, otherwise known as New York’s Hudson Valley, and supports collective resistance, collective refusal, and collective flourishing to dismantle settler colonialism everywhere.
Sahar Khraibani is a writer and artist whose work has appeared in Montez Press, the Brooklyn Rail, Magnum Foundation, the Poetry Foundation, the Poetry Project, and Hyperallergic among others. Sahar is a recipient of the Creative Capital / Andy Warhol Arts Writers Grant, an Emerge—Surface—Be Fellowship at The Poetry Project, a MacDowell Fellowship, and is a 2024 artist in residence at Mass MoCA. Sahar teaches at Pratt Institute and is a Critical Studies Fellow at the Whitney ISP. Their first book is forthcoming from 1080Press.
Bianca Rae Messinger is a poet and translator living in New York State. Her most recent chapbooks include “The Love of God” (Inpatient Press, 2016) and “parallel bars” (Center for Book Arts, 2021). Her first full length book of poems, pleasureis amiracle, was recently published by Nightboat.