Fred Moten and Nathaniel Mackey, with Hafez Modirzadeh

Saturday, March 5, 2016, 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Photos of Fred Moten, Hafez Modirzadeh and Nathaniel Mackey
This 2016 highlight in the Bay Area's literary scene features two of the more acclaimed and influential poets at work today. Fred Moten joins us from Los Angeles. Nathaniel Mackey gives his first Bay Area reading since moving to North Carolina in 2010. He'll be joined by longtime friend and collaborator, musician Hafez Modirzadeh on reeds. Tickets at door: Free - $10.
Location: 
The Third Floor, McRoskey Mattress Company, 1687 Market Street (at Gough Street), San Francisco
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Website: 
The Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives
Sponsor: 
The Poetry Center, The Green Arcade, McRoskey Mattress Company
Contact: 
The Poetry Center
E-mail: 
poetry@sfsu.du
Phone: 
415-338-2227
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Fred Moten

Fred Moten is author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition, Hughson’s Tavern, B. Jenkins, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (with Stefano Harney), The Feel Trio, and The Little Edges. A new poetry collection, The Service Porch, and a new collection of essays, consent not to be a single being, will appear in 2016. Moten lives in Los Angeles and teaches at University of California, Riverside.

Nathaniel Mackey

Nathaniel Mackey is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Blue Fasa (New Directions, 2015); an ongoing prose work, From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, whose fourth and most recent volume is Bass Cathedral (New Directions, 2008); and two books of criticism, the most recent of which is Paracritical Hinge: Essays, Talks, Notes, Interviews (University of Wisconsin Press, 2005). Strick: Song of the Andoumboulou 16-25, a compact disc recording of poems read with musical accompaniment (Royal Hartigan, percussion; Hafez Modirzadeh, reeds and flutes), was released in 1995 by Spoken Engine Company. Mackey is the editor of the literary magazine Hambone and coeditor, with Art Lange, of the anthology Moment's Notice: Jazz in Poetry and Prose (Coffee House Press, 1993).

Mackey’s awards and honors include the National Book Award for poetry, Stephen Henderson Award from the African American Literature and Culture Society, a Guggenheim Fellowship, Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation and Bollingen Prize for American Poetry. He is the Reynolds Price Professor of English at Duke University.

Hafez Modirzadeh

Saxophonist/theorist Hafez Modirzadeh has performed, recorded, published and lectured internationally on original cross-cultural musical concepts which include “Convergence Liberation” (in Critical Studies in Improvisation, 2011), “Compost Music” (in Leonardo, 2009), “Aural Archetypes” (in Black Music Research, 2001), as well as “Chromodality” (for Wesleyan University, 1992). Twice a National Endowment for the Arts jazz fellow, Modirzadeh was granted a 2006 Senior Fulbright Award to work with Flamenco and Gnawan traditions in Andalucia and Morocco. He is a professor of world cultures in music at San Francisco State University. His 2012 release, Post-Chromodal Out!, is available on Pi Records.