Flier design: Claire Zhang

We're chuffed to announce the third reading of the 2024 Belladonna* reading series! GIST is a series of readings in public spaces co-curated by Emily Bark Brown and Ayaz Muratoglu. The third reading will feature Lindsey Pannor and Jay Gao.

When: Sunday, April 28th at 2pm
Where: Vale of Cashmere, Prospect Park and on zoom.

Lindsey Pannor is an artist and poet. Current and forthcoming work can be found in bæst: a journal of queer forms & affects, DIAGRAM, FENCE Digital, Tagvverk, 240p by 1080press and elsewhere. They are currently an MFA Candidate in Literary Arts at Brown University.

Jay Gao is a poet from Edinburgh, Scotland, living in New York City. His debut poetry collection Imperium (Carcanet Press, UK, 2022) is a winner of the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize, an Eric Gregory Award and a Somerset Maugham Award. His writing has received support from Bread Loaf, Tin House, Civitella Ranieri, Community of Writers, and he earned his MFA in Literary Arts (Poetry) from Brown University. Currently, he is a reader for Poetry magazine and a PhD student in English at Columbia University where he studies experimental poetics and race.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Belladonna’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.