Please join us at Tibet House US on Saturday for the latest evening in our reading series, a gathering of literature and music. This will be a musical event, with performance woven through the evening from all three performers.
Molly Roden Winter is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir More: A Memoir of Open Marriage. Her essays, appearing in Time, The Cut, The Guardian, examine intimacy, freedom, and the evolving architecture of modern relationships with rare candor and intelligence.
Davide Balula, artist and animal trainer based in New York, works at the threshold between art and living systems. His projects unfold in collaboration with algae, fungi, A.I., fire, chefs, and dancers, constructing strange ecologies where the organic and the synthetic meet. Since 2018 he has trained A.I. surrogates alongside philosophers, artists, critics, and poets, and he is co editor with Julia Trotta of the online poetry publication Viseu.
Music from Tierra del Fuego, the project of Elizabeth Hart (Psychic Ills) and Argentine producer Iván Diaz Mathé (Nairobi). Formed during a sweltering New York summer in 2017, their collaboration moves between New York, Texas, and Buenos Aires. Their debut album Dinner for Ghosts blends rock and country into a drifting, haunted sound written at the edge of modern civilization.
Please join us at Tibet House for another evening of readings.
Several writers will share new work, distinct voices and sensibilities gathered in one room for the simple act of speaking aloud what was first written alone.
Four of us crossing Fifth Avenue—
my mother, my husband, my son, and I—
entering the distilled light of the The Frick Collection
The carpets hold their centuries without complaint.
Roman walks ahead, serious in his noticing,
counting frames, measuring shadow,
as though each object might answer him back.
He pauses before an El Greco—
the same elongated saint he stood before yesterday
at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Two days, two rooms, one body drawn thin with longing.
He recognizes it the way children recognize a face
they have decided to trust.
My mother watches him watching,
only blocks from where she once carried me home in her arms,
when the city seemed stern but survivable.
It has not grown gentler.
Yet it allows this small mercy:
three generations paused in the same breath,
while traffic passes beyond the glass like indifferent weather.
For a moment we are not striving,
not proving,
not afraid of what time will take.
We are simply gathered—
inside a house of looking,
held in the quiet fact
that love, like paint,
endures by being seen.
We are deeply grateful to everyone who joined us for the return of our reading series at Tibet House, and especially to Eileen Myles and Lynne Lawner for an evening of uncommon intellectual and artistic force. Eileen’s work continues to reconfigure contemporary literature through a radical permeability between poetry and prose, self and polis, rendering language a site of both insurrection and intimacy. Their writing refuses abstraction, insisting instead on the charged textures of lived experience as the ground of political thought. Lynne’s practice, marked by moral lucidity and historical attentiveness, models a poetics of witness in which clarity becomes an ethical act. Together they enacted what serious literature at its best affords: a disciplined gathering of attention, a shared respiration of thought, and a reminder that such rooms are not cultural luxuries but civic necessities. @tibethouse.us@eileen.myles@lynnelawner
We are back with the reading series at Tibet House and hope you can join us. The world needs this gathering of voices, attention, and shared breath.
Lynne Lawner is a poet, writer, and longtime advocate for the literary arts whose work is marked by clarity, emotional precision, and deep ethical intelligence. Her writing moves between the personal and the political, attentive to history, memory, and the moral weight of witness. In addition to her own literary practice, she has played a vital role in fostering creative communities and sustaining spaces where serious thought and artistic risk can flourish.
Eileen Myles is a poet, novelist, and cultural figure whose work has reshaped contemporary literature through its radical intimacy, humor, and candor. Emerging from the downtown New York poetry scene, Myles has built a body of work that dissolves boundaries between poetry and prose, public life and private experience. Their writing is fearless and tender, politically alive, and grounded in the everyday textures of love, sexuality, class, and belonging, offering readers a vision of language as both resistance and refuge.
Jonah Freeman’s knockout show: Soft Math (Cloud In The Eyes) closes in a few days - if you’re in Mexico City come and check it out - his son Roman flew all the way from New York ! @jonahfree@lago_algo@galeriaomr
Roman at Jonah’s show knowing the film like a lullaby … reciting it back into the room gently and without effort as if the work had taken root inside him. @jonahfree@lago_algo@galeriaomr
