<em>You See What You See</em>: Book Launch & Archival Conversation for Lois Elaine Griffith
Fri, Mar 7, 2025
6:00 PM–8:00 PM
Martin E. Segal Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave, NYC. Free and open to all. Registration required.
Join Lois Elaine Griffith with Joseph Cáceres, and M.C. Kinniburgh and Conley Lowrance of Granary Books
Granary Books and the Center for Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center, in collaboration with Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, are pleased to present a book launch and archival conversation in honor of the work of Lois Elaine Griffith. Griffith is a poet, author, and artist, who is a cofounder and longtime organizer for the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. She will be in conversation with Lost & Found Archival Fellow Joseph Cáceres, a scholar of her work and collaborator on her archive, along with M.C. Kinniburgh and Conley Lowrance (her archivists and publishers), to celebrate her newest book: You See What You See, a limited edition artists’ book published by Granary Books.
Join us for a festive book launch featuring conversation between Griffith and her collaborators, spanning archives, artists’ books, the shapes of poetic knowledge, and more. Free broadsides will be available to event attendees; reception to follow from 7:30 to 8:00.
Participants:
Lois Elaine Griffith: Artist/writer Lois Elaine Griffith, one of the founders of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, has initiated the NPC Founders Archive Project from which these picture/poems – You See What You See – are a part. At present, she is working on – Come To Terms/Llegar A Un Acuerdo – a project about knowledges and naming – evidencing for archive.
Joseph Anthony Cáceres: Joseph Anthony Cáceres is a queer Nuyorican writer and scholar. An alumnus of the Yale Writers’ Workshop, he is also the recipient of the Bronx Council of the Arts’ Bronx Recognizes Its Own (BRIO) Grant for Fiction, and LAMBDA Literary Writers Residency for Emerging LGBTQ Voices. Joseph is an English Ph.D. candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center and a senior archivist for the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Founders Archive Project. He is currently working on three book projects revolving around the Cafe’s aesthetic, featuring unpublished works and other archival artifacts that also records the forgotten contributions of the Cafe’s founders and associating artists.
M.C. Kinniburgh: M.C. Kinniburgh is co-director of Granary Books, where she manages the press’s rare books and archives sales, publications, and projects. She is the author of Wild Intelligence: The Politics of Knowledge and Postwar American Poets’ Libraries (University of Massachusetts Press, 2022), and also publishes Subseries (formerly TKS Books), a small edition imprint whose works are held in special collections libraries throughout North America. She is a member of the Grolier Club, the Bibliographical Society of America, and the Society for Textual Scholarship. She holds a Ph.D. from The Graduate Center, CUNY in English, where she edited Lost & Found chapbooks on Mary Korte and Gregory Corso.
Conley Lowrance: Conley Lowrance is a fiction writer, poet, and archivist/rare books specialist at Granary Books. He specializes in post-war avant-garde American poetry, New York counterculture, and digital archives, and his work has been published in Bombay Gin, Brokelyn, Empty Mirror, and the Stockholm Review of Books, among others. Artificial Respiration, an alchemical poem-collage sequence created in collaboration with the artist Sarah Monks, was published by TKS in 2020. He lives in Brooklyn.
This event is co-presented by Granary Books and Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative from the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center.
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