Thursday, November 16

7-8pm, FREE!

John Yau. Photo credit: Ron Kessler circa 1992

A Highpoint First! Please join us on Thursday, November 16 at Highpoint for Highpoint’s first ever poetry reading featuring John Yau. John will be reading from his recently published book of poetry, Tell It Slant.

This event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited to the first 30 people so it is recommended you arrive early.

About John Yau: Poet, fiction writer, essayist, art critic, and publisher of Black Square Editions, John Yau has written across genres and worked in different mediums. Starting in the mid-1980s, he began collaborating with American and European artists, from the widely celebrated to the young and emerging. The collaborations took the form of paintings, drawings, artist books, prints, postcards, objects, clothing, and jazz compositions. Starting in the late 1970s, he began writing reviews and essays for art magazines, galleries, and museums in. Since 2002, he has taught contemporary art history in the art department of the Mason Gross School of the Arts (Rutgers University). He has written monographs on many artists, most recently, Liu Xiaodong (2021) and Joe Brainard: The Art of the Personal (2022). His most recent book of essays is Please Wait by the Coatroom: Reconsidering Race and Identity In American Art and his most recent book of poetry is Tell it Slant. In 2012, he began writing reviews regularly for the online magazine, Hyperallergic. He has published more than 20 books of poetry.

You can purchase a copy of Tell it Slant here. Use the code PRSLANT30 to recvive 30% off your purchase. Offer valid through the end of October.

This event is generously supported by the McKnight Foundation. John will be in town for studio visits with the 2023 McKnight Printmaking Fellows.