Forget Why Poetry Series - Edwin Torres, Cathy Eisenhower, Vivek Narayanan
Sat, Nov 14 · 7:00 PM Rhizome DC · Takoma
Saturday November 14 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS Edwin Torres is a multidisciplinary poet and performance artist from New York City, and the author of many books of poetry including, "Quanundrum: i will be your many angled thing" (Roof Books, American Book Award winner), Ameriscopia (University of Arizona Press), and editor of "The Body In Language: An Anthology" (Counter path Press). Recent recordings include "sublingual infinities" and "parallel infinities" on Room 40 Records, and his newest book, " Feel Recordings in the Evershift, " was just released by Wave Books this fall. Cathy Eisenhower lives and works as a psychotherapist in Washington, DC, and is the author of Language of the Dog-heads (Phylum 2001), clearing without reversal (Edge 2008), would with and (Roof 2009), distance decay (Ugly Duckling 2015), and animalitos (Primary Writing 2017). She has translated the selected poems of Argentine poet Diana Bellessi and co-curates a reading series at Rhizome DC. Vivek Narayanan’ s honours include a 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry as well as fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute and the New York Public Library. His books of poems include After (New York Review Books, 2022) and The Kuruntokai and its Mirror (Hanuman Editions, 2024). He teaches in the MFA Poetry program at George Mason University.
