Sara Uribe & Holly Melgard — Contemporary Writers Series

Presented by the Mills College at Northeastern University Literatures and Languages Department, the Contemporary Writers Series and We Are The Voices.

This event is free and open to the public, both in-person in the Mills Hall Living Room and virtually via zoom.

Zoom link will be provided day of the reading.

Registration is required.

Sara Uribe is a Mexican poet who explores the relationship between poetry, body, ethics and politics. Her most recent books are Un montón de escritura para nada (A lot of writing for nothing) (Dharma, 2019), Abroche su cinturón mientras esté sentado (Fasten your seatbelt while seated) (Filodecaballos, 2017) and Antígona González, translated by John Pluecker (Le Figues Press, 2016). Her work has been translated into English, German, Norwegian and French. 

Holly Melgard's Fetal Position (Roof, 2021) is her first book with an outside publisher, after a decade of self-publishing on the experimental platform Troll Thread press, which she designs, co-founded, and co-edits. Jackie Ess named it one of Artforum’s “Best of 2021.” On Troll Thread, she authored Poems for Baby trilogy, The Making of The Americans, and Black Friday, among others. With her fellow co-editor Joey Yearous-Algozin, she also co-authored White Trash and Liquidation (Troll Thread). Having appeared in BOMB Magazine and The Best American Experimental Writing Anthology, her poems have been translated into Spanish, Slovenian, and German. With a PhD from the SUNY Buffalo Poetics Program, she currently lives in Brooklyn where she designs books and teaches writing at New York University and City University of New York. Her new book Read Me: Holly Melgard Selected Works (Ugly Duckling Presse) is forthcoming in June 2023. 

Doors will open at 6:00pm and the reading will begin at 6:30pm. There will be a reception in the Mills Hall Living Room following the reading.