On the Other Hand: Poets and the Practice of Drawing
June 10 - July 11, 2022
Detail from "The Sea (II)" by Lynn Xu and drawing by Tim Johnson
GEORGIA is excited to announce the first show of 2022. Works by Kazim Ali, Cynthia Arrieu-King, Sommer Browning, Tim Johnson, Khadijah Queen, Aram Saroyan, Kit Schluter, Brandon Shimoda, giovanni singleton, Jeffrey Pethybridge, and Lynn Xu, curated by Joshua Edwards and Sommer Browning.
Thoreau wrote, “The art of life, of a poet’s life, is, not having anything to do, to do something.” This might mean at times turning the line away from letters and toward images, as each of the poets represented in On the Other Hand have done. These ten artists—through drawings, sketches, scores, doodles, cartoons, contours, calligrams, and other mark-making—give shape to visions and concerns in ways that show the brilliance of the creative spirit finding its forms.
This show is on view from June 10 to July 11 and will be accompanied by three nights of readings.
(NB: Closed Saturday June 25 & Sunday June 26 | Saturday July 2 & Sunday July 3)
An opening reception and reading with Michael Joseph Walsh and Jeffrey Pethybridge is on Friday, June 10, 6-9 pm.
On Thursday, June 30 at 7pm, we will be celebrating Kelly Krumrie's new collection Math Class with HR Hegnauer.
A closing reception and celebration for Hillary Leftwich's newest book, Aura, is on July 8th at 7pm. She will be joined by Serena Chopra.
Hours
Friday, June 10
Opening Reception & reading with Michael Joseph Walsh and Jeffrey Pethybridge | 6-9 | Reading at 7pm
Thursday, June 30
Book Celebration for Kelly Krumrie with HR Hegnauer | 6-9 | Reading at 7pm
Friday, July 8
Closing Reception & Book Celebration for Hillary Leftwich with Serena Chopra | 6-9 | Reading at 7pm
Saturdays & Sundays | June 11 to July 10 | 1-5pm Closed Saturday June 25 & Sunday June 26
I am very happy to accommodate other times by appointment, please contact me!
Michael Joseph Walsh (he/him) is a Korean American poet and translator. He is the author of Innocence (CSU Poetry Center, 2022) and co-editor of APARTMENT Poetry. His poems, translations, and reviews have appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Guernica, FOLDER, Fence, jubilat, and elsewhere.
Jeffrey Pethybridge is the author of Striven, The Bright Treatise (Noemi Press 2013). His work appears widely in journals such as Chicago Review, Volt, Poor Claudia, Best American Experimental Writing, The Iowa Review, LIT, New American Writing and others. He teaches in the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University where he is Director of the Summer Writing Program. He is also the North American Editor for Likestarlings, a web-archive of collaborative poetry and poetics.
Kelly Krumrie is a writer and teacher based in Colorado. Math Class (Calamari Archive, 2022) is her first book. Other creative and critical writing appears in journals such as DIAGRAM, La Vague, Black Warrior Review, Full Stop, and The Explicator. She also writes a column for Tarpaulin Sky Magazine called figuring on math and science in art and literature. She holds a PhD in English & Literary Arts: Creative Writing from the University of Denver, and she was the 2021-22 Visiting Writer at Western Colorado University.
HR Hegnauer is the author of When the Bird is Not a Human and Sir, as well as two chapbooks. She has read from her work widely at universities, conferences, bookstores, and in numerous reading series. She is a book designer specializing in working with independent publishers as well as individual writers, translators, and artists. She has also taught writing and literature courses at the University of Colorado, Johnson & Wales University, and Naropa University in addition to guest lecturing at many other universities. She received her MFA in Writing & Poetics from Naropa University and her MBA in Business from the University of Denver.
Hillary Leftwich is the author of three books: Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock (CCM Press, 2019), Aura, a memoir (Future Tense Books, 2022), and Saint Dymphna’s Playbook (PANK Books, 2023). She is the owner of Alchemy Author Services & Writing Workshop and Community Coven, teaches creative writing at Lighthouse Writers, and is a creative writing professor at University of Denver’s College for Professional Studies and Colorado College in Colorado Springs. She lives in Denver with her partner, son, and their cat, Larry, where she also hosts/organizes At the Inkwell Denver, a literary reading series and liberated space for all voices.
Serena Chopra is a teacher, writer, dancer, filmmaker and a visual and performance artist. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Denver and is a MacDowell Fellow, a Kundiman Fellow and a Fulbright Scholar. She has two books, This Human (Coconut Books 2013) and Ic (Horse Less Press 2017), as well as two films, Dogana/Chapti (Official Selection at Frameline43, Oregon Documentary Film Festival, QueerX and Seattle Queer Film Festival) and Mother Ghosting (2018). She was a featured artist in Harper's Bazaar (India), Revry, as well as in the Denver Westword’s “100 Colorado Creatives” and has recent creative publications in Sink, Foglifter as well as in the anthology Alone Together: Love, Grief and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19 (Central Avenue Publishing, 2020). She also has critical work in Matters of Feminist Practice (Belladonna Collective) and Rehearsing Racial Equity: A Critical Anthology on Anti-Racism and Repair in the Arts (forthcoming 2023). Serena is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Seattle University.