Jun 21st 2025

Talk | Politics of Poetics: Solmaz Sharif and Wafaa Bilal

@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611

Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 2 PM - 4 PM

On view through Sunday, October 19th

Politics of Poetics is a series of readings and workshops that highlights influential contemporary poets whose practices traverse the political through writing, teaching, and activism. This summer, Solmaz Sharif—winner of the 2017 American Book Award for poetry for her book Look—joins artist Wafaa Bilal for a reading and conversation on shared themes in their work, including investigations of contemporary warfare and its aftermath involving the US, Iran, and Iraq.

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