[New York]

Collection Processed by Poets: Five Writers Repond to the Wagner Labor Archive
March 25, 2015, 6:00 pm
at Tamiment Library (NYU)

Five poets and writers—Robert Fitterman, Paolo Javier, Maryam Parhizkar, Eléna Rivera, Johannah Rodgers—are tasked with visiting the Wagner Labor Archive over three months. As word workers attuned to lyric and subtext, they “un-process” and “process” its holdings. On March 25 they gather to read their works: texts that engage the archive’s history and extend the archive’s future. Curated by Jill Magi, whose book LABOR (Nightboat, 2014) responds to the Wagner Labor Archive, this initiative situates poets within the history and language of labor, and it brings the archive’s holdings out into the world of literature. Co-sponsored by Nightboat Books.The event will take place on the 10th floor. More information here.