Ari Banias and Brandon Som, reading at Medicine for Nightmares (Part 1 of 2) -The Poetry Center 

OUR APOLOGIES FOR LACK OF IMAGE FOR MUCH OF PART ONE.
Edited full-program video recording will be posted at Poetry Center Digital Archive: diva.sfsu.edu/...
Co-presented by The Poetry Center and Medicine for Nightmares.
Ari Banias, Mazza Writer in Residence Fall 2022 for The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University is the author of A Symmetry (2021), winner of the 2021 Publishing Triangle Award for Trans & Gender Variant Literature, and Anybody (2016), both from W. W. Norton. Recent poems have appeared in bæst, Georgia Review, Hyperallergic, The Nation, The New Republic, Triple Canopy, Verse, Washington Square, and The Yale Review. He is the recipient of numerous fellowships and residencies including at Yaddo, Headlands Center for the Arts, MacDowell, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Currently, Ari lives in Chicago. aribanias.com
Brandon Som is the author of The Tribute Horse (Nightboat Books), winner of the 2015 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and the chapbook Babel's Moon (Tupelo Press). His new book Tripas is forthcoming with the University of Georgia Press in 2023. He lives on the unceded land of the Kumeyaay Nation and teaches literature and creative writing at the University of California San Diego.