Torsdag 22 februari 17:00, Anti, Stora Nygatan 18
– putting the lyric on pause with the ethical bedrock of debt.
We welcome American poet Wendy Lotterman to Anti on Thursday 22 February for a reading of her new book A Reaction to Someone Coming In (Futurepoem, 2023). The reading will be followed by a conversation with Matthew Rana.
Free entry. Reading begins at 17.00. The program will be held in English.
Wendy Lotterman is a postdoctoral researcher in literature at the University of Oslo and associate editor of Parapraxis, a magazine of psychoanalysis and politics. Lotterman’s first book, A Reaction to Someone Coming In, was published in 2023 by Futurepoem. Other writing can be found in BOMB, The Chicago Review, and The Brooklyn Rail.
Matthew Rana is the author of Ardour: Poems from the Daud (Nion Editions, 2022). His writing has appeared in Jacket2, OEI, and The Poetry Project Newsletter, among others. He is a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis and lives and works in Stockholm.
The lyric mode of A Reaction to Someone Coming In is intimate like an appendectomy is intimate, only your ex and your mom are watching, which definitely makes it better, even exquisite.
—Kay Gabriel
