Wednesday, March 18: Nikki Darling & Jibade-Khalil Huffman

Nikki Darling is a student in the Creative Writing/Literature PhD program at USC. Her poetry, performance, and experimental essays are based around subjectivity, persona, and post-structuralist methods of deconstructing literary form and meaning. She is a columnist at KCET Artbound and is currently finishing her first novel, Fade Into You, a story of mixed-race identity in the San Gabriel Valley during the 1990s. Her criticism has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, Art Book Review, Tomorrow Magazine, and Public Books, among others. Her essay “Appropriate For Destruction” was included in Best Music Writing 2010.

Jibade-Khalil Huffman is an artist and the author of three books of poems: 19 Names For Our Band (2008), James Brown is Dead (2011), and Sleeper Hold (2015). His art and writing projects, which span performance, photography, poetry, and video, have been presented at galleries and museums, including MoMA/PS1, Marianne Boesky and the Hammer Museum as part of Made in LA 2014.

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Wednesday, March 18 2015, 8pm

Poetic Research Bureau
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA