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Old Pal Issue 2 Reading
May 24, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
FreeThree contributors to Old Pal, Jac Nelson, Rose Swartz, and Jenessa Vanzutphen, read from their work across genres at a friendly, private residence. All are welcome to join! Please email editors@oldpalmag.com for the address. You can find our readers’ work in Issue 2 of Old Pal and / or learn more about them below.
JAC NELSON is a multimedia poet living between the ancestral lands of the Nisqually people (at Puget Sound) and of the Očeti Šakówiŋ (at the Minnesota River). Their work begins with art and artist as ethical questions that emerge from inherited context: ancestry, language, land, trauma, coercion, and decision activate their aesthetic search for multigenerational healing and connection. Jac continues to learn about, engage with, and resist the ways they benefit from white supremacy originating in genocide, slavery, and other violences. Recent work was shown at Gay City in Seattle Wa, published in Black Warrior Review, Fanzine, Blackbox Manifold and Otoliths, and is forthcoming in soft surface. Gram them @jacxnelson
ROSE SWARTZ is a writer-photographer-painter-musician-carpenter living in Portland, Oregon. Her last chapbook, Panhandle, came out on Abandon Press (Nehalem, OR) in 2016. Most of her other recent work involves sheet rock and steel studs and is visible/invisible in various commercial buildings in the Portland area. Early next year, she plans to display a series of large-scale paintings based on Polaroid photos found at the Goodwill bins. Follow her film photography on Instagram: @roseswartz
JENESSA VANZUTPHEN’s work has appeared or is forthcoming.
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