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Together with a cast of diasporically encountered collaborators, S*an D. Henry-Smith presents an improvised reading-performance in celebration of the release of their newest collection of poems, PACES THE CAGE.

PACES THE CAGE, S*an D. Henry-Smith’s second collection of poems, engages voice, sound, and improvisation as collaborative language-making, and method in the arsenal of collective autonomy. The poem and score; stage, audience, and performer; all are boundaries the poet, artist, and performer aims to articulate, and then fog again over, making us all active and implicit witnesses to what unfolds.

Accompanying their voice, the poet plays their divined instrument: Cadence Player 001, a microphonic guitar fictionalized from their poems, later made material.

As if it were an improvised performance itself, PACES THE CAGE actively tunes personal and historical narratives of oppression and adversity with the act of speaking, and what it means to be truly heard by a community of one’s fellow creators and collaborators.