Ghalya Saadawi + Olivia Tapiero

an evening of readings with Ghalya Saadawi + Olivia Tapiero

Can the poem think historically without sacrificing its lyricism? Ghalya Saadawi and Olivia Tapiero both write with and about time. Through different forms—the essay and the poem—they capture the fleshy contractions of what it means to exist at the juncture of disaster and colonial extraction. Whether through cosmological figures, or attending to the granular particularities of history, they both invest the term history with hurt: history is what hurts.