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Shin Yu Pai is the author of 12 books of poetry, including most recently No Neutral. In 2020, Entre Rios Books published Ensō, a 20-year survey of her work across poetry, photography, performance, installation, and public art. She is currently Civic Poet for The City of Seattle.

In the spring of 1976, Val Klink and I formed a legal collective downtown with Kingsley Clarke from the Sojourner Truth Organization (STO), the revolutionary communist group that we were close to. Kingsley had a law office on 88th and Commercial in South Chicago as well.

Brittany Adames is a Dominican-American writer. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and featured in Palette Poetry, Up the Staircase Quarterly, and elsewhere. She has an MFA in poetry from Brooklyn College.

The book is anchored by the homes, landscapes, and countries that defined Carrington, richly illustrated with her paintings and archival material. Moorhead’s writing is at its most gorgeously sensorial when she visits these locations for herself.

The Brooklyn Rail is a journal committed to providing an independent forum for visual arts, culture, and politics throughout New York City and beyond.

The Brooklyn Rail is a journal committed to providing an independent forum for visual arts, culture, and politics throughout New York City and beyond.

Curated by Veronica Melendez, Connected Diaspora: US Central American Visuality in the Age of Social Media is a celebration of multimedia artistic contributions of US Central American artists who too often are excluded from contemporary art world conversations.

With this exhibition, the Art Institute builds on its institutional commitments to collecting, exhibiting, and contributing to the research on Surrealist work. It also reaffirms the museum’s commitments to recent vital collaborations with Mexican art institutions such as the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City.

Two students at a Catholic university in Houston, Texas, start a band that eventually records one of the most experimental albums of the psychedelic era. After the band breaks up, one of the founders moves first to New York to work as the assistant of a famous artist, then to London, where he teams up with a highly politicized art collective with whom he makes audio and video recordings featuring the artists awkwardly chanting political tracts to a basic rock backing.

In anticipation of The Quail Who Wears the Shirt’s November 2023 publication by Tortoise Books, Jeremy and I spoke recently via email about the Allman Brothers, the sublime Georgia peach, the Coen Brothers, and humans who are mysteriously transformed into quails.