Mita Mahato (left) and Lara Mimosa Montes (right) will share practical and poetic strategies that shape their respective writing lives on February 10.
In his essay collection My Trade Is Mystery, poet Carl Phillips writes: “To shape for oneself a writing practice is to commit to an apprenticeship in readiness. In order to write, we need to be ready to write, which means being informed, curious, fluent, patient, disciplined, and open to possibility however strange…” In conversation, Mita Mahato and Lara Mimosa Montes will share practical and poetic strategies that shape their respective writing lives.
Hosted by Sheryda Warrener.
Audience & Location
- Everyone is welcome to attend this free event.
- The event will be live-streamed on Zoom.
Speakers
Mita Mahato is the author and artist of Arctic Play (The 3rd Thing, 2024) and the collection In Between (Pleiades, 2017). Her poetry comix have been published in PRISM, Ecotone, Iterant, Shenandoah, Coast/NoCoast, ANMLY, and Drunken Boat, and her practice has been supported by Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK), Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB), Loghaven, Storyknife, Black Earth Institute, Short Run Seattle, Mineral School, Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, and The Arctic Circle. She teaches comix and poetry at all levels and currently lives in Seattle.
Lara Mimosa Montes is a writer, editor, and teaching artist whose practice and experiences span the fields of alternative publishing and experimental writing. She is the author of THRESHOLES (Coffee House Press, 2020) and The Somnambulist (Horse Less Press, 2016). Her writing has appeared in BOMB, Fence, The Brooklyn Rail, The Institute for Studies on Latin American Art, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of artist residencies and fellowships from MacDowell, Marble House Project, Jentel, and Headlands Center for the Arts. Lara holds a PhD in English from The Graduate Center, City University of New York. She teaches in XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement Master’s program at NYU. She was born in the Bronx.
