Please join us for the launch of the eighth issue of diSONARE, devoted to film, poetry and alchemy. With readings and performances by Francisca Benítez, Anne Waldman, No Land, Christopher Rey Pérez, Kaitlyn A. Kramer, Chloe Zimmerman, Zazil Alaíde Collins, and a bilingual reading of the poetry of Jonas Mekas.

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Francisca Benítez is a New York based artist. She was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1974. Her work looks into the relationships between space, politics, and language, building close relationships with place and the communities she works with. Her work has been exhibited in biennales, international events, museums and galleries.

Anne Waldman. Poet, performer, curator, activist, and author of over 40 books of poetry. Her most recent book is Trickster Feminism from Penguin 2018. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim, and the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for long-life achievement. A founder and former Director of The Poetry Project, she also cofounded the Jack Kerouac School with Allen Ginsberg at Naropa University.

No Land is an artist, poet, and photographer, born and working in New York City. As a poet & vocalist, she has performed in collaborative works at Jazzfest Berlin, LaMaMa Galleria, & other venues. In 2018, she released Authentic Artifice, an art-book of poetry and photographs, published by Newest York. Her photojournalistic work has been published by Levy Gorvy Gallery, The Brooklyn Rail, The Village Voice, The Indypendent, Bill Moyers and others. In November 2018, her cinema-poem, Crepuscular, a collaboration with poet Anne Waldman premiered at The Poetry Project.

Christopher Rey Pérez is a poet working from within a matrix of opaque folklore, violence, and language in order to incorporate the liminality of a type of “border thinking” into his writing. He is the author of gauguin’s notebook, along with a number of other works that have been published in Lebanon, Cyprus, Mexico, and Brazil. Since 2012, he has edited a nomadic publication in, of, and around Latin America, called Dolce Stil Criollo.

Kaitlyn A. Kramer is the author of the essay collection Very Like a Whale (des pair books, 2019). Her writing has appeared in BOMB Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, and Degree Critical, among other publications. She lives in New York.

Chloe Zimmerman is an artist, writer and educator engaging with ecologies and documentary poetics across disciplines.

Zazil Alaíde Collins is the author of the books Junkie de la Nada, No Todas las Islas, El Corazón, Tan Cerca de la Boca, Sipofene, and Pink. She is a poet, musical curator and broadcaster, and coedits the bilingual project Musicians in Mexico City.

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Edited by Lucia Hinojosa and Diego Gerard, diSONARE is a bilingual editorial project founded in Mexico City in 2013 focusing on hybrid artistic processes in the intersection between poetry, art, fiction, experimental essays, and translations.