SEGUE reading series at Artists Space, 11 Cortlandt Alley, NYC
Fall/Winter 2026-27 Series begins October 3, 2026
Saturdays, 5:00 – 6:30 pm ET
Live at Artists Space and live-streaming on Zoom
Event starts promptly! Door at 4:30. Arrive early to catch the art exhibits.
Admission: $5 via Paypal, Venmo or Zelle. Proceeds go directly to the readers.
Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 – Launch Zoom Webinar
Archive of readings: https://www.youtube.com/@ArtistsSpace/videos
See below calendars for links to individual reading videos.
October 10 // Stine An & Antonio Ochoa
Stine An is a poet, translator, and performer based in New York City. Her publications include Today’s Morning Vocabulary by Yoo Heekyung, Winter Night Rabbit Worries by Yoo Heekyung, S_MMER CR_SH, and Comet & Star written by Lee Juck and illustrated by Lee Jinhee. Her debut poetry collection, B-Dragon Suite, won the Nightboat Poetry Prize.
Antonio Ochoa was born in Mexico City. He is the author Small Sargasso Mountains / Pequeñas cordilleras de sargazo, as well as two previous collections of poetry, pulsos and El toro de Hiroshima. He is the host of the podcast Texts For Nothing: Conversations with Poets.
October & November curated by NIGHTBOAT BOOKS
October 3
Ken Chen & Cici Wu with Ju Ly Ban
Ken Chen is an Assistant Professor and the Associate Director of Creative Writing at Barnard College. His poetry collection, Juvenilia, was selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award by Louise Glück. He is currently working on his next book, tentatively titled The Encounters, which follows his journey to the underworld to rescue his father and his encounters there with those destroyed by colonialism.
Cici Wu is a New York based artist who was born in Beijing and grew up in Hong Kong. Reducing filmmaking to its most humble and elemental components, she creates drawings, objects, videos, and installations which extend the imaginative and structural premises of cinematic language across a wide range of media.
Ju Ly Ban is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the CUNY Graduate Center and teaches composition at Baruch College. Her research brings Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s archives into conversation with Black feminism and queer kinship.
October 10
Stine An & Antonio Ochoa
Stine An is a poet, translator, and performer based in New York City. Her publications include Today’s Morning Vocabulary by Yoo Heekyung, Winter Night Rabbit Worries by Yoo Heekyung, S_MMER CR_SH, and Comet & Star written by Lee Juck and illustrated by Lee Jinhee. Her debut poetry collection, B-Dragon Suite, won the Nightboat Poetry Prize.
Antonio Ochoa was born in Mexico City. He is the author Small Sargasso Mountains / Pequeñas cordilleras de sargazo, as well as two previous collections of poetry, pulsos and El toro de Hiroshima. He is the host of the podcast Texts For Nothing: Conversations with Poets.
October 17
julie ezelle patton & Cecilia Vicuña
julie ezelle patton is the author of the chapbooks Notes for Some (Nominally) Awake, “Car Tune,”& Not So Bella Donna, and The Flower Poem. In 2024, a special issue of Chicago Review was devoted to her four-decade poetic, performative, and visual practice. A significant collection of her work, J Walking Through the Alphabet, will be out in early 2027.
Cecilia Vicuña is a poet, artist, activist, and filmmaker whose work addresses pressing concerns of the modern world, including ecological destruction, human rights, and cultural homogenization. The author of more than 30 volumes of art and poetry published in the United States, Europe, and Latin America, including Educate, Libro Venado/ Deer Book, and Saborami. She received the Gold Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2022 at the 59th Venice Biennale.
October 24
Joon Oluchi Lee & imogen smith
Joon Oluchi Lee lives and writes in femininity and feminism. He is the author of Tricyclist, Neotenica, which won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction, 94, and Lace Sick Bag. He is Professor in Literary Arts & Studies at Rhode Island School of Design, and, with his partner Roddy, co-parent of their rescue dogs Nella and Sami.
imogen smith is a poet and transsexual. She is the author of raw & zero and stemmy things, both published by Nightboat Books. Her writings have appeared in this journal and that, and she is the recipient of fellowships from The Poetry Project and NYFA. imogen loves true punks, hates cops of all denominations, and believes in a free Palestine.
October 31
Tisa Bryant & Soham Patel
Tisa Bryant is the author of Residual, a nonfiction assemblage of the interiors of grief, the home as archive, and the mystery of mothers, published in 2026 by Nightboat Books. She is also the author of Unexplained Presence and co-editor of the three-volume, cross-referenced literary journal, The Encyclopedia Project. She is Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa.
Soham Patel is the author of The Daughter Industry, as well as all one in the end/water, ever really hear it, winner of the Subito Prize, and to afar from afar. They serve as associate editor at FENCE Magazine.
November 7
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge & Jay Gao
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge is the author of thirteen books of poetry, including A Treatise on Stars; Hello, the Roses; Empathy; and I Love Artists. Her collaborations include Endocrinology with Kiki Smith and Hiddenness with Richard Tuttle. In 2021, she was awarded Bollingen Prize for Poetry, and in 2026 she was the recipient of the Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry. She lives in northern New Mexico and New York City.
Jay Gao is a poet from Edinburgh, Scotland, living in New York City. He is the author of The Dead One, The Unconscious One, Thundering in Your Ear, Thriving Slumber. His debut collection, Imperium, was the winner of the 2023 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize, an Eric Gregory Award, and a Somerset Maugham Award.
November 14
Benjamin Krusling & Chang Yuchen
Benjamin Krusling is a writer and artist based in Brooklyn. He is the author of Glaring, and his second poetry collection, Fear of God Essentials, is forthcoming in the spring. Recent criticism has appeared in The Paris Review and Screen Slate, and recent sound and video work has been performed and screened at Anthology Film Archives, Public Space One, SculptureCenter, Storefront for Art and Architecture, and other venues.
Chang Yuchen works in an interdisciplinary manner—writing as weaving, drawing as translation, teaching as hospitality, commerce as social experiment (see Use Value, 2016–2026), and publishing as a dandelion spreading its seeds. Her ongoing project Coral Dictionary (2019–) is a writing system based on coral debris. Through reading visually, associatively, and emotively, a feral literacy takes shape.
November 21
Valerie Hsiung & Matt Longabucco
Valerie Hsiung is a poet who writes between worlds, where language meets ritual and abolition meets afterlife. She is the author of eight full-length books, including The pedestrian, The Naif, The only name we can call it now is not its only name, To love an artist, and outside voices, please. She teaches writing at the limits of language at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University.
Matt Longabucco is the author of poetry collections The Hummingbird and Heroic Dose, and of M/W: An essay on Jean Eustache’s La maman et la putain. He teaches writing, innovative pedagogy, and critical theory at New York University’s Liberal Studies Program, and at Bard College’s Institute for Writing and Thinking.