Over his six decade-long career, Ed Ruscha has created images of words. Join us for an intimate evening of conversation with acclaimed poets Rae Armantrout and Mónica de la Torre, who have chosen works from MoMA’s retrospective ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN to reflect on the groundbreaking artist’s long-standing fascination with language in all of its graphic, associative, and phonic aspects.
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Rae Armantrout is the author of more than 10 collections of poetry. Her recent collections include Finalists (2022), Conjure (2020), and Wobble (2018), a finalist for the National Book Award. Versed (2009) won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and a 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award. She is professor emerita at University of California, San Diego, where she directed the New Writing Series.
Mónica de la Torre is a poet, translator, and scholar, and a frequent collaborator with visual artists. Born in Mexico City, she often writes across Spanish and English. Her poetry collections include Repetition Nineteen (2020), Public Domain (2008), and Talk Shows (2007). She has edited BOMB magazine and the Brooklyn Rail and is the Madelon Leventhal Rand Endowed Chair in Literature at Brooklyn College.