Notes Towards a Definition of Kinship: Poetry reading and Open Mic with Maya Caspari and Filipa da Rocha Nunes
Words together make a sound, a sentence, a poem. People together make a gathering, a family, a home.
UK-based poet Maya Caspari and Lisbon-based artist Filipa da Rocha Nunes join us in-store for an evening of bilingual poetry readings, followed by an open mic. We invite you to share your chapbooks, unfinished drafts, notes app screenshots.
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Maya Caspari is a a researcher, writer, and curator, based in London and York. Her poetry has appeared in journals including The Poetry Review, Ambit and Butcher’s Dog. She has been Highly Commended in the Forward Prizes, longlisted in the National Poetry Competition and Mslexia Poetry Prize, and shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award. Her pamphlet Almost, With Tenderness (Out-Spoken Press) is available now.
Filipa da Rocha Nunes (b. 1993) is a writer and curator, author of the book Couro Fresco, published in April 2023 by Guerra e Paz. Cartography, word repetition, variations of light, and the recognition of domestic rituals of popular organization are essential elements in her literary and curatorial research. She earned a degree in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon in 2016 and holds a master's degree in Cultural Management from the International University of Catalonia, a program she completed in 2019 in Barcelona. Her next book, Curtume, will be published in May 2025 by Traça Editora.
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