Silo City Reading Series: Kenzie Allen, Andrew Grace, Crystal Z Campbell, happygroupppp

Featured Artists

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  happygroupppp band
  

  happygroupppp

  band

  happygroupppp is an ambient-thru-americana musical project based in Buffalo, New York.

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  Kenzie Allen Poet
  

  Kenzie Allen

  Poet

  Kenzie Allen is the author of Cloud Missives (Tin House, 2024). She is a Haudenosaunee poet and multimodal artist, and the recipient of a 92NY Discovery Prize, an inaugural James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poets, the 49th Parallel Award in poetry, and fellowships from Vermont Studio Center, Aspen Writers’ Foundation, and In-Na-Po (Indigenous Nations Poets). A finalist for the National Poetry Series, her work has appeared in Poetry magazine, Boston Review, Narrative magazine, Best New Poets, and other venues. She is a first-generation descendant of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin.

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  Andrew Grace Poet
  

  Andrew Grace

  Poet

  Andrew Grace has published three books of poems: A Belonging Field (Salt Publishing), Shadeland (Ohio State University Press) and SANCTA (Ahsahta/Foundlings) . His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, Boston Review and New Criterion . A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford, he is a Senior Editor at the Kenyon Review and teaches at Kenyon College. His fourth collection A Brief History of the Midwest was published by Black Lawrence Press in May 2025.

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  Crystal Z Campbell Artist
  

  Crystal Z Campbell

  Artist

  Crystal Z Campbell, 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts, is a visual artist, experimental filmmaker, and writer of Black, Filipinx, and Chinese descents whose works center the underloved. Working through archives and omissions, Campbell finds complex­ity in public secrets—fragments of information known by many but undertold or unspoken. Campbell’s recent works use underloved archival material to consider historical gaps in the narrative of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, revisit questions of immortality and medical ethics with Henrietta Lacks’ “immortal” cell line, ponder the role of a political monument and displacement in a Swedish coastal landscape, salvage a 35mm film from a demolished Black activist theater in Brooklyn as a relic of gentrification, or reference traces of US colonialism in the Philippines.

  photo credit Brandon Watson