Talking Pictures: Jill Moser, Major Jackson, & Elena Karina Byrne

Join us in celebrating New York painter Jill Moser’s latest project, Talking Pictures: Collaborations (H.J. Imprint). Her unique image/text catalogue-come-to-life, Talking Pictures, features an exhilarating chorus of 40 voices: writers, artists, journalists, critics, curators, historians, novelists, scientists, poets, and psychoanalysts. Poets Major Jackson and Elena Karina Byrne with artist Jill Moser will discuss collaboration as a process of reciprocity, outside traditional settings of ekphrasis and in relation to their associative experiences with visual media. There will be a slideshow of the painting collages, alongside a few recordings. After the conversation, there will be a Q&A with the audience.
Book Signing & Reception to follow.

Doors Open 2:30 PM I Readings: 3:00 PM

About the artist & authors

Jill Moser’s paintings, drawings, prints, and artist’s books have been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States and Europe, and featured in prominent collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The National Gallery of Art, The Yale University Art Gallery, The Fogg Art Museum, and The National Library of France. Over the past two decades, Moser has made numerous print editions with Jungle Press, Burnet Editions, Wingate Studios, Landfall Press, Brand X, Collaborative Art Editions, Manneken Press and Bleu Acier. She continues to engage in other collaborative projects with writers, artists, designers, and architects. She has taught at Princeton University, Virginia Commonwealth University, SUNY, and The School of Visual Arts and lectured across the United States. She lives and works in New York.

Major Jackson is the author of six books of poetry, most recently, Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected Poems. He is also the author of A Beat Beyond: The Selected Prose of Major Jackson edited by Amor Kohli. Major lives in Nashville, Tennessee where he is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and serves as the Poetry Editor of The Harvard Review. From 2023–2025, he hosted the award-winning podcast The Slowdown. He is the inaugural recipient of the Patricia Cannon Willis Prize for American Poetry from Yale Library.

A Pushcart Prize recipient and author of five poetry collections, Elena Karina Byrne received an MFA in screenwriting (Writing & Contemporary Media) from Antioch University during COVID. Her poetry and non-fiction work can be found in POETRY, Best American Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Paris Review, APR, Los Angeles Review of Books, Plume Anthologies, Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, Verse Daily, Reel Verse: Poems About the Movies, The Eloquent Poem: 128 Contemporary Poems and Their Making, Adroit Journal, BOMB, and elsewhere. Elena works as a freelance editor, lecturer, screenwriter, and Programming Consultant & Poetry Stage Manager for The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, and Director of Poetry & Interdisciplinary Programs for the historic Ruskin Art Club.

About Beyond Baroque

is one of the United States' leading independent Literary | Arts Centers and public spaces dedicated to expanding the public's knowledge of poetry, literature and art through cultural events and community interaction. Founded in 1968 as an experimental literary magazine, Beyond Baroque is based out of the original City Hall building in Venice, California. The Center offers a diverse variety of literary and arts programming including readings and workshops. The building also houses a bookstore with a large collection of new poetry books for sale.

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