Andy Warhol, Arnulf Rainer, John Chamberlain and Dan Flavin
On September 21, 2024 Monira Foundation and Jersey City Reads Poems presented Discovering: Poetry in the Galleries. Audience members had the opportunity to participate in a multi-sensory experience while touring the galleries at Mana Contemporary.
Jersey City Reads Poems is a poetry series amplifying marginalized voices in Jersey City. Sara Munjack, Sam Circle, Idris, and Shannon Pulusan will present poetry works in dialogue with the long-term settings of artists Dan Flavin, Arnulf Rainer, Andy Warhol, and John Chamberlain, exploring the connections between art and language through ekphrastic poetry.
Collaborators:
Sara Munjack
Sara Munjack is the Founder of Jersey City Reads Poems and holds an MFA from Rutgers-Newark. She is currently Director of DEI at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Her poems appear in Cosmonauts Avenue, Pigeon Pages, BOAAT, Gandy Dancer, ISO Magazine, tele-art mag, The Common and Grist Journal. You can follow her Substack HYBRID MACHINE.
Shannon Pulusan
Shannon Pulusan is a Fil-Am writer, illustrator, plant tita, and arts education administrator based in Jersey City. Her poetics explore how foodways, superstition, and the natural world can offer reparative insight and joy. Her poems appear in Ecotone, SRPR, underblong, and more. She has received support from ARTS by the People, Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, and Brooklyn Poets and holds an MFA in Poetry from Rutgers University-Newark.
Idris
Idris, AKA Mizi Maré is a rapper out of Jersey City, NJ. Mizi is the embodiment of many whimsical characters with maniacal minds, all of which with the goal to usher you into the many worlds said minds race through.
Sam Circle
Sam Circle is a writer and artist based in Jersey City. They recently graduated from New Jersey City University with an MFA in Integrated Media Arts Production. They publish the biweekly newsletter Last Week’s New Yorker Review, which is what it sounds like.
This program is made possible by a generous grant by the Hudson County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs.
