A reading with Samuel Ace with music by Ira Khonen Temple and AANI
Thursday, November 17 at 7:00 PM
CBE Chapel, 274 Garfield Place
As part of our Jewish Queer & Trans Writers class, we are excited to welcome poet Samuel Ace and musician Ira Khonen Temple for an evening of poetry and music.
Samuel Ace is a trans/genderqueer poet and sound artist. He is the author of several books, most recently Our Weather Our Sea (Black Radish), Meet Me There: Normal Sex & Home in three days. Don’t wash. (Belladonna* Germinal Texts), and Stealth with poet Maureen Seaton (Chax Press). He is the recipient of the Astraea Lesbian Writer Award and the Firecracker Alternative Book Award in Poetry, as well as a repeat finalist for both the Lambda Literary Award and the National Poetry Series. Recent work can be found in Poetry, We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetry; Home is Where You Queer Your Heart, PEN America, Best American Experimental Poetry, Vinyl, and many other journals and anthologies.
Ira Khonen Temple is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and embedded cultural organizer. Recent credits include accordionist for Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish, and music director of Indecent at the Weston Playhouse, Great Small Works’ Muntergang and Other Cheerful Downfalls, the Aftselakhis Spectacle Committe Purimshpil, and Zoe Beloff’s Days of the Commune. Ira is a founder of the radical-traditional Yiddish music group Tsibele.
AANI's "ElectraBrassPop" builds a sanctuary amidst rubble. The brainchild of NYC-born vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer Aaron "Aani" Kisslinger, AANI infuses Independent Pop music with live brass, mystical poetry, Klezmer, and Jewish sacred musics. Their work explores memory and ritual, aiming to create meaningful, queer, diasporic cultural practice, and construct a space for joyful liberation.