Tripwire’s 2nd pamphlet showcases nibia pastrana santiago‘s performance interventions at and around the Whitney Museum of American Art, in collaboration with Eduardo F. Rosario and Daniela Fabrizi, and with performance photos and scores as well as texts by Ren Ellis Neyra, Tung-Hui Hu, and guest curator Greta Hartenstein. pastrana’s practice explores choreography as a demarcation of space, an inherently territorial act. She understands the resulting relationships between choreographer, performer, and audience to be enmeshed in a complex power dynamic—one that, in her work, she relates to the colonial force enacted on Puerto Rico by the United States. Her ongoing practice investigates the history and physical characteristics of San Juan Bay; for the Whitney Biennial, she conducted a similar examination of the Hudson River and the New York waterfront, especially in the area around the Whitney.

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  375+ pages of new poetry & translations, essays, reviews, radical poetries from the archive, a special section on Greek Poetry of the Crisis & more
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A Ballad for Etel Adnan

Join Tripwire editor David Buuck at SFMOMA for an exploration of Etel Adnan’s relationship to Bay Area creative communities at a night of poetry and musical performances. Artist Simone Fattal and poets David Buuck, Nick Hoff, and Denise Newman will share selections from both Adnan’s writing and their own. The evening’s festivities continue with a performance by experimental harpist and composer Zeena Parkins and percussionist William Winant inspired by Adnan’s long relationship to color, abstraction, and the California landscape.

Thursday, September 20, 7-9pm
SFMOMA (free with museum admission)
Floor 4, Gina and Stuart Peterson White Box

Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series:
Jen Hofer & John Pluecker Reading & Presentation

The Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series, a partnership with The Poetry Center, debuts this month with a two-day series by poet-translator-activists Jen Hofer and John Pluecker, who collectively organize Antena, a language justice and language experimentation collaborative focusing on writing, art- and book-making, translating, interpreting, and language justice. Hofer and Pluecker, visiting respectively from Los Angeles and Houston, will read from their own work, then present their work around Antena the following evening; both events are free and open to the public.

Jen Hofer and John Pluecker 
reading from their poetry
Wednesday, September 26, 7pm
EM Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore
410 13^th Street (one block from 12^th Street BART), Oakland
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Antena: a language justice and language experimentation collaborative
Jen Hofer and John Pluecker
Thursday, September 27, 7pm
The Poetry Center
SFSU, HUM 512

Tripwire is looking for critical & creative work on/of contemporary writing & performance for two upcoming special issues. Please email proposals by April 1 to tripwirejournal@gmail.com. Final submissions due May 15.

Yes, please: essays, reviews, interviews, cross-genre, creative-critical writing, translations, poetics statements & experiments, performance texts & documentation.

No, thanks: unsolicited poetry or fiction, conventional academic essays, short “blurby” reviews… if not familiar, please spend some time on our site to get a feel for what we generally publish.