In our last event before summer, Mnemosynes will be hosting American poets Gabrielle Bates and Patrycja Humienik on Saturday, June 8, 2024. Please join us at Rerenga Wines: Cave à vin et Librairie (3 rue de la Fidélité) from 14h-16h to hear from these outstanding poets and Tin House press-mates. A discussion of their work, relationships to image and landscape, and literary paths that attend to displacement will follow the reading.
The reading will begin promptly at 14h15. We encourage you to arrive by 13h45. Seating is limited. If you require a chair, please send an email to verseofapril@gmail.com to reserve.
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Gabrielle Bates is the author of the poetry collection Judas Goat (Tin House, 2023), an NPR Best Book of 2023 and a New York Times Book Review Shortlist pick. Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, Bates currently lives in Seattle, where she works for Open Books: A Poem Emporium and co-hosts the podcast The Poet Salon. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, Ploughshares, the Between the Covers podcast, and elsewhere, and she has served as visiting faculty for a variety of universities, arts organizations, and museums, including the University of Washington Rome Center and the Tin House Writers' Workshops. You can find her on Twitter (@GabrielleBates) and Instagram (@gabrielle_bates_).
Patrycja Humienik is a Polish-American writer, editor, and performance artist. She is the author of We Contain Landscapes, forthcoming with Tin House in 2025. An MFA candidate at UW-Madison, she serves as Events Director for The Seventh Wave and an editor for the Community Anthologies project. Patrycja has developed writing and movement workshops for the Henry Art Gallery, Arts+Literature Laboratory, Northwest Film Forum, in prisons, and elsewhere. You can find her on Twitter & Instagram (@jej_sen).