Language Garden

Saturday, August 30
6pm
David Horvitz’s 7th Ave. Garden

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Language Garden presents, from Chicago, scholar and poet S. Yarberry, with Rosie Stockton and Anahid Nersessian, performing a “live collage” celebrating the life and work of William Blake.

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Smith "S." Yarberry (he/they) is a trans poet and scholar. Smith is a PhD candidate in literature at Northwestern University, where he is finishing his dissertation, "Trans Impossibilities & the 1790s: The Imaginative Bodies of William Blake." Their articles on Blake can be found in  European Romantic Review and  Studies in Romanticism, while his poems have appeared in AGNI, Guernica, Tin House, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, among others. S. completed a MFA in poetry at Washington University in St. Louis and is the author of  A Boy in the City (Deep Vellum, 2022) as well as the two forthcoming collections,  The Robert Poems (Deep Vellum, 2026) and  Urgent, Stars (Deep Vellum, 2028). They are currently based in Chicago, where Smith runs the little magazine Tyger Quarterly and serves as the graduate assistant in the Public Humanities for Northwestern's Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities.

Rosie Stockton is the author of  Fuel (Nightboat Books 2025) and  Permanent Volta (Nightboat Books 2021), They hold an M.A. in Creative Writing from Eastern Michigan University and are currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Gender Studies Department at UCLA. 

Anahid Nersessian is a writer living in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in  The New Yorker,  The New York Review of Books,  The London Review of Books,  Bookforum,  Bidoun,  Mousse, and elsewhere. She's written three books and is finishing her fourth, which is called  How to Have Sex in a Poem. 

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The Language Garden Reading Series is programmed by Corina Copp, Sophia Le Fraga, & Joseph Mosconi, with interventions/germinations from David Horvitz.