The Poetry & Poetics Cluster & Transnational Cultural History Workshop would like to invite you to a poetry reading featuring Aditya Bahl & Jose–Luis Moctezuma on Tuesday Nov. 23rd at 5:30pm in the Hagstrum Room at Northwestern University. 

Aditya Bahl is a poet and PhD candidate in English at Johns Hopkins University. His dissertation focuses on literary magazines and poetry published in Punjab, India, during the 1960s-70s Mao-inspired Naxalite insurgency. His essays about literature and politics have appeared in The Nation, The New Inquiry, and New Left Review Sidecar, and elsewhere. He will be reading from his latest chapbook MUKT (Organism for Poetic Research, 2021). Building on the work of G.M. Muktibodh (1917-1964), the foremost Indian Marxist poet and thinker of the twentieth century, MUKT assembles a startling new poetics that fuses Marx and Mira, the Indian epic and the workers’ inquiry, the Avant-Garde and the Third World. (website)

Jose-Luis Moctezuma is a xicano poet, essayist, and researcher. He received a PhD in English from the University of Chicago. After his chapbook Spring Tlaloc Seance (Projective Industries, 2016), he published his first full-length book, Place-Discipline (Omnidawn, 2018), which was selected by Myung Mi Kim as the winner of the 2017 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Prize. Begun as a project exploring the psychogeography and metahistory of the formation of Chicago, Place-Discipline lyricizes 21st century subjectivity as the byproduct of, and resistance to, global capitalism’s necropolitics and the encroachment of occult financial industries and vectoralism on the human’s right to chaotic embodiment and trans-formation. His poetry and criticism have been published in Postmodern Culture, Modernism/modernity, Fence, Jacket2, and elsewhere. Born in San Gabriel, CA, he now lives and teaches in Chicago. (website)