On Monday, April 17th, at 5PM, the Centre for Expanded Poetics at Concordia University will host a reading by the American poet, essayist and playwright Carla Harryman, in collaboration with Montréal-based author Gail Scott, who will introduce and open a conversation on her work.

From Litmus Press: “Known for her boundary breaking investigations of genre, non/narrative poetics, and text-based performance, Carla Harryman is the author of twenty-four books and chapbooks including the collection of poetry and performance writings published in French and English editions Sue in Berlin and Sue á Berlin (2017); the epistolary essay, Artifact of Hope (2017); the diptych W—/M— (2013), the Essay Press collection Adorno’s Noise (2008), Gardener of Stars: A Novel (2001), and two volumes of selected writing: Animal Instincts: Prose, Plays, Essays (1989) and There Never Was a Rose without a Thorn (1995). Her most recent book, A Voice to Perform (Split/Level 2020) includes a second edition of Memory Play, originally published by O Books. An active collaborator, she is one of ten co-authors of The Grand Piano, an Experiment in Collective Autobiography: San Francisco, 1975-1980 (2006-2010). Open Box, a CD of music and spoken text performance created with composer and musician Jon Raskin was released on the Tzadik label in 2012. Her Poets Theater plays and music/text collaborations have been performed nationally and internationally, including at dOCUMENTA 13, Outsound Music Summit in San Francisco, The Stone in New York, the Hölderlinturm in Tübingen, Germany, and Beton Salon in Paris. She is the editor of two critical volumes: Non/Narrative, a special issue of the Journal of Narrative Theory (2012) and Lust for Life: On the Writings of Kathy Acker (with Avital Ronell and Amy Scholder, Verso, 2006).”