Sometimes There's Cake! | Reading Series @ WFG
Sometimes There’s Cake!
Join us for a reading with the authors & artists:
Yanara Friedland reads from Thanatographies
Danielle Vogel reads from A Library of Light
with poetry reading by Chanelle Allesandre
Danielle Vogel is a poet and interdisciplinary artist working at the intersections of queer and feminist ecologies, somatics, and ceremony. She is the author of the hybrid poetry collections A Library of Light (Wesleyan University Press 2024), Edges & Fray (Wesleyan University Press 2020), The Way a Line Hallucinates Its Own Linearity (Red Hen Press 2020), and Between Grammars (Noemi Press 2015). Her installations and site-responsive works have been displayed at RISD Museum, among other art venues, and adaptations of her work have been performed at such places as Carnegie Hall in New York and the Tjarnarbíó Theater in Reykjavík, Iceland. Her work has been supported by the Poetry Foundation, the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, and The Nordic House in Reykjavík, among other arts and ecology organizations. Vogel is Director of Creative Writing at Wesleyan University where she teaches workshops in innovative poetics, memory and memoir, and composing across the arts. She makes her home in the Connecticut River Valley where she also runs a private practice as an herbalist and flower essence practitioner through with/in herbals. Learn more at: danielle-vogel.com.
Yanara Friedland is a writer, translator, and educator born in Berlin. She is the author of Uncountry: A Mythology (2016) winner of the Noemi Press Fiction Book Award and Groundswell (2021) selected by Jill Magi for Essay Press's Book Award. Both books have recently appeared in German translation with Matthes & Seitz Berlin. Her third book Thanatographies is forthcoming from FC2/University of Alabama Press. She is the recipient of research grants from the DAAD and Arizona Commission on the Arts. Her work explores the effects of dislocation on memory and language, engaging with multilingual and transhistorical spaces through archival research, nocturnal imagination, and in collaboration with other artists. She teaches creative writing and literature at Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies and co-runs the reading series Mutter Courage in the Pacific Northwest.
Chanelle Allesandre is an experimental musician, écrivaine, and flower essence devotee. She makes spatial and atmospheric soundscapes with various pedals, field recordings, instrumentation, cassette tapes, and a mixer. She is always writing, mostly poems and sometimes prose and oftentimes, letters. All of her work relies heavily on chance and channeling and mystery and devotion and translation. She currently resides near the Long Island Sound in the Northeastern United States.
@chanelle.allesandre on instagram
Yanara Friedland (portrait of artist)
Danielle Vogel with Arctic Angelica
Chanelle Allesandre - Martime Skin,
Chanelle Allesandre, self portrait
