Avgi Saketopoulou + Anh Vo: Psychoanalysis and Poetry

For the third consecutive year, The Poetry Project will host an evening devoted to mining the conceptual and practical resonances between poetry and psychoanalysis. The previous two events in the series have paired a psychoanalytic clinician who works in or around poetry with a poet or writer who works in or around psychoanalysis (in 2024, Nuar Alsadir read alongside Claire Donato and 2025 featured Jamieson Webster and Hannah Zeavin). This year, the evening follows this structure and yet strays slightly from the field of poetry towards more interdisciplinary concerns about performance, language, and corporeality by inviting Avgi Saketopoulou, a leading psychoanalytic clinician, theorist, and author of Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, and Traumatophilia, to read new work alongside a performance and reading from the interdisciplinary choreographer and theorist Anh Vo. Topics may or may not include: confusion and overwhelm, the unconscious and fainting, the performance of vessel-hood, and the musicality of speech.

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