Just Buffalo Presents: Ariel Yelen, Laura Marris, and Whitetails (solo)

Featured Artists

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  Laura Marris Writer & Translator
  

  Laura Marris

  Writer & Translator

  Laura Marris is a writer and translator. Her writing has appeared in The Believer, The Yale Review, The Paris Review Daily, The Common, The TLS, The New York Times, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. Her work has been supported by fellowships from MacDowell, a Katharine Bakeless Fellowship from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and a grant from the Robert B. Silvers Foundation. Her first solo-authored book, The Age of Loneliness, was published in August 2024 by Graywolf Press.

  (Photo credit: Pat Cray)

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  Ariel Yelen Poet
  

  Ariel Yelen

  Poet

  Ariel Yelen is the author of I Was Working  (Princeton University Press, 2024), selected by Rowan Ricardo Phillips for the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. She received a 2023-2024 Creative & Performing Arts Fulbright to Greece, as well as fellowships / grants from Fine Arts Work Center, Vermont Studio Center, The Yiddish Book Center, Art Farm & Arte Studio Ginestrelle. She’s taught poetry and interdisciplinary courses for Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers New Brunswick, The Loft Literary Center, & Mana Contemporary. As a former editor for the NYC-based publishing collaborative Futurepoem Books, she founded their digital space futurefeed. She studied sculpture & video at SUNY Purchase & poetry at Rutgers-Newark. She lives and works in New York City.

  photo credit: Theo Cote

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  Whitetails
  

  Whitetails

  Driven by the soul-rending words and music of Jonathan Bobowicz, Whitetails weaves groovy storytelling with sonic, moving melody. Bobowicz is a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who has gigged in bands (Chylde, White Bison, Black Canyon Lights) for more than 20 years including features on stages at South-by-Southwest to the working class beer halls of Buffalo, NY.