CHEEYEON PARK | DATE 10/21/2023

Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents Jena Osman and Adam Pendleton in conversation for the launch of 'A Very Large Array'

Saturday, October 21, at 4 PM, Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents a conversation between the acclaimed poet Jena Osman and artist and founder of Daba Press, Adam Pendleton, to mark the launch of hew new collection, A Very Large Array: Selected Poems. Osman and Pendleton have been friends and admired one-another's works for more than twenty years, and they are excited to share their collaboration with the world. RSVP for the event and pre-order a signed copy of the book at artbookstores.com. Join in-person or livestream on Instagram at @artbookps1.

From her deep excavations of documentary materials, including maps from nineteenth-century New York and psy-ops leaflets dropped on Afghanistan after 9/11, Jena Osman's poems trace overlooked visual and linguistic incidents across centuries of American history.

A Very Large Array is an extensive collection of poet Jena Osman’s acclaimed work. Spanning more than thirty years, it gathers poems from her published books, as well as from journals and chapbooks long out of print. Osman’s writing is relentlessly inventive, devising countless new formats that combine elements of the poem and the experimental essay.

DABA is a new press for artist’s books, books on art, experimental writing, and visual poetry. DABA seeks to assemble art, language, and ideas from a wide variety of cultural and historical contexts, with an interest in the relationships between conceptual practices, Blackness, and the avant-garde.

Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore
Jena Osman and Adam Pendleton on 'A Very Large Array'
Sunday, October 21 at 4PM EST
22-25 Jackson Ave (at 46th Ave.)
Long Island City, NY 11101
(718) 433-1088
Email: booksmomaps1@artbook.com
RSVP and pre-order signed books here