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SUMMARY:“Because of slavery”: The Irreverent Art of Kara Walker and Harryette Mullen
DESCRIPTION:“Because of slavery” is the correct answer to the question: Why did the slaveholding states go to war against the free states of the Union? MONUMENTS reckons with deceptive narratives implicit in the presentation of a defeated Confederacy—not as traitors and losers\, but as objects of hero worship. The Old South lost the Civil War but won the nation’s post-war reconciliation with monuments\, movies\, and textbooks that upheld white supremacy and perpetuated black subordination. Kara Walker’s art and Harryette Mullen’s poetry have in common an irreverent attitude toward oppressive systems and institutions\, from the Lost Cause glorified in the proliferation of Confederate monuments to the ghosts of slavery still haunting American life. Walker and Mullen employ exacting craft to disarm the ugly isms with parody\, satire\, humor\, and surprising remixes of historical and cultural artifacts. \nIn view of Walker’s Unmanned Drone\, Mullen will read from her latest poetry collection\, Regaining Unconsciousness. \nHarryette Mullen’s latest poetry collection\, Regaining Unconsciousness (Graywolf\, 2025) is one of Publishers Weekly’s and California Independent Booksellers Alliance’s Best Books of the Year. Recyclopedia (Graywolf\, 2006) won a PEN Beyond Margins Award. Sleeping with the Dictionary (U of California\, 2002) was a finalist for a National Book Award\, National Book Critics Circle Award\, and LA Times Book Award. The Cracks Between (U of Alabama\, 2012)\, essays and interviews\, received an Elizabeth Agee Award. Other books include Her Silver-Tongued Companion (Edinburgh U\, 2024)\, Open Leaves (Black Sunflowers\, 2023)\, and Urban Tumbleweed (Graywolf\, 2013). She teaches literature and creative writing at UCLA. \nThis program is co-presented by The Brick and the Humanities Division at UCLA in conjunction with MONUMENTS\, an exhibition co-organized and co-presented by The Brick and The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (MOCA). \nQuestions about the event?\nVisit the The Brick for full details.
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/because-of-slavery-the-irreverent-art-of-kara-walker-and-harryette-mullen/
LOCATION:The Brick\, 518 N. Western Avenue\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90004
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SUMMARY:Lunch Poems: A Poetry Reading by Eugene Ostashevsky and Aditya Bahl
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA Department of English for a poetry reading by Eugene Ostashevsky and Aditya Bahl\, followed by a discussion with Danny Snelson about poetics\, experiment\, and politics. Light refreshments will be served. \nEugene Ostashvesky is a Russian-American poet\, translator\, and critic who teaches at New York University. He is the author of numerous books of poetry and translations\, including The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi (2017) and The Feeling Sonnets (2022)\, both published in the NYRB Poets series. He is also the translator of Mayakovsky\, Kharms\, Belorusets\, Dragomoshchenko\, etc. \nAditya Bahl is a poet and critic who teaches at UCLA. He is the author of four chapbooks of poetry\, including Mukt (Organism for Poetic Research\, 2022). He has written for The Nation\, New Left Review\, and London Review of Books\, among others. \nDanny Snelson is a poet and critic who teaches at UCLA. He is the author of numerous books of poetry and criticism\, including RADIOS (Make Now Press\,2016) and The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats (MIT Press\, 2025). \nThe event is sponsored by the Department of English\, the Department of Comparative Literature\, and the Department of Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures.
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/lunch-poems-a-poetry-reading-by-eugene-ostashevsky-and-aditya-bahl/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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