November 20: Terrence Arjoon-The Disinherited
Terrence Arjoon reads from his new book The Disinherited (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025) joined by poets Rainer Diana Hamilton, Wayne Koestenbaum, and Rachelle Rahmé
This event will take place in person at 192 Books at 192 10th Ave on Thursday, November 20th at 7:00 PM ET. Seating is limited and will be first come, first served. This event will not be livestreamed.
Books will be available for sale after the conversation.
Terrence Arjoon - The Disinherited, (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025)
Composed of partial translations from Gérard de Nerval, pastoral pastiches, slant rhymes, off-sonnets, and malapropisms, The Disinherited inhabits a world spanning the olive groves of old Europe to spills of ink in the renegade printing studios of New York, as Arjoon and his merry wanderers take a meandering stroll through diaspora and exile, the Romantic and surreal, reaching towards something richer, denser, and stranger.
Credit: Colin Reilly
Terrence Arjoon is the author of The Disinherited (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025) and Acid Splash, or Into Blue Caves (1080PRESS, 2023). His work can be found in Annulet, Tagvverk, The Poetry Project Newsletter, and Smooth Friend, among other publications. He is an editor at 1080PRESS and a bookseller.
Credit: Jan Rattia
Rainer Diana Hamilton’s fourth book of poetry, Lilacs, is out this fall on Krupskaya Books.
Wayne Koestenbaum—poet, critic, fiction writer, artist, filmmaker, performer—has published 23 books, including Stubble Archipelago, Ultramarine, The Cheerful Scapegoat, Figure It Out, Camp Marmalade, My 1980s & Other Essays, The Anatomy of Harpo Marx, Humiliation, Hotel Theory, Circus, Andy Warhol, Jackie Under My Skin, and The Queen’s Throat (nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award). His next book, a novel, My Lover, the Rabbi, will be published by FSG and Granta in March 2026. He has exhibited his visual art in solo shows at White Columns, 356 Mission, the University of Kentucky Art Museum, Millennium Film Workshop, Gattopardo, and “B” Dry Goods, as well as in many group shows, including at Air de Paris, Essex Flowers, Wege Center for the Arts, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Gordon Robichaux, Klaus von Nichtssagend, Yossi Milo Gallery, FIERMAN, Jeff Bailey Gallery, Geoffrey Young Gallery, and the Fashion Institute of Technology. His first piano/vocal record, Lounge Act, was released by Ugly Duckling Presse Records; he has given musical performances of improvisatory Sprechstimme soliloquies at The Kitchen, REDCAT, Centre Pompidou, The Walker Art Center, The Artist’s Institute, the Renaissance Society, the Hammer Museum, The Poetry Project, and the Francis Kite Club. His first feature-length film, The Collective, premiered at UnionDocs (New York) in 2021. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, and a Whiting Award. Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library has acquired his literary archive. He is a Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at the City University of New York Graduate Center.
Rachelle Rahmé is a writer and translator interested in collaborative liberation methodologies. Her translations of the occupation poetry of Georges Bataille were published as 27 Poems on Death by o-blēk in 2021 and in the journals Fieldnotes, Hot Pink, and Anus. Rahmé is a recipient of The Poetry Project's Emerge-Surface-Be Fellowship and has published chapbooks with 72 Press, Blush, Wonder Press, and Belladonna Collective, among others. Rahmé holds an MA in Philosophy from The New School and an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University. Born in Lebanon, she currently resides in the Hudson Valley. Mercurial, or Is that Liberty?, released in October of this year by Fonograf, is her first full-length collection of poems.