I Want a President: Transcript of a Rally, November 6, 2016

Zoe Leonard

• Other Authors Eileen Myles (Contributor), Sharon Hayes (Foreword), Zoe Leonard (Introduction), Pamela Sneed (Contributor), Malik Gaines (Contributor), Alexandro Segade (Contributor), Wu Tsang (Contributor), Fred Moten (Contributor), Morgan Bassichis (Contributor), Mel Elberg (Contributor), Layli Long Solider (Contributor), Justin Vivian Bond (Contributor), Stefano Harney (Contributor), Nath Ann Carrera (Contributor), Dancing Foxes Press (Editor)
• Title

  I Want a President: Transcript of a Rally, November 6, 2016

• Date 2017
• Publisher Brooklyn, NY: Dancing Foxes Press
• Description 50 p; 11 in
• Language English
• Collections Permanent Collection, BAM Reading Room (2017), MoMA Reading Room
• Summary

  I Want a President: Transcript of a Rally documents the November 6, 2016 reading on New York’s High Line. In advance of the 2016 general election, the event convened artists, writers, and poets to reflect upon political leadership and community action in relation to Zoe Leonard’s text from 1992. The Transcript is published by Art Resources Transfer, a nonprofit organization committed to documenting and disseminating artists' voices and work to the broadest possible public, and Dancing Foxes Press, an independent publishing platform whose mission is to render into distinctive form ideas that emerge from the minds of artists, writers, and scholars.

• Tags Poetry, Politically engaged, Transcript, MoMA Reading Room, Bam 2017, Artist’s book