Book Launch
Sadé Powell
dontbeabitterbtch

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Please Join us Saturday, October 18th at 4PM-5:30 PM inside Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore for the launch of Sadé Powell's new book dontbeabitterbitch with a reading and conversation between Concrete Poet Sadé Powell and multi-media artist Candace Hill-Montgomery moderated by theorist and poet Fred Moten.Join us in-person or livestream on Instagram @artbookps1RSVP and pre-order signed copies at link in bio ! dontbeabitterbtch layers typewritten poems and monoprints that conceal and defer, tracing interior life through text and image.

Paperback| 96 pgs. | 8.5"x7"x25" | $18.00 

Fred Moten is Professor of Performance Studies at New York University. He has written a number of books of poetry and criticism, including consent not to be a single being (Duke University Press, 2017, 2018); and Perennial Fashion Presence Falling (Wave Books, 2023). Moten is now primarily engaged in a set of ongoing collaborations. He and Stefano Harney are co-authors of three books the most recent of which is All Incomplete (Minor Compositions/Autonomedia, 2021). He is a member of the interdisciplinary arts collective Moved by the Motion and under its auspices is co-author, with Wu Tsang, of Who touched me? (If I Cant Dance, I Dont Want to be Part of Your Revolution, 2016). Moten frequently accompanies bassist Brandon López. Their latest album is Revision (Tao Forms Records, 2025). Moten works on all of this with his comrade Laura Harris and their children Julian and Lorenzo.

Sadé Powell is a concrete poet based in Staten Island, NY. she uses a 1930s royal typewriter and experimental print and paper techniques to explore black feminist poethics, drawing on black vernacularity and dissemblance. her debut, dontbeabitterbtch (selva oscura press, 2025), layers typewritten poems and monoprints that conceal and defer, tracing interior life through text and image. she is also the author of wordtomydead (ugly duckling presse, 2023) and periodluv(belladonna*, 2023), and is the 2025 recipient of the anna rabinowitz award and a jerome hill artist fellow in literature.

Candace Hill Montgomery originally from St. Albans , Queens, NY is a multi media artist. . Having received her BA in Art History and Studio Art from Fordham University studying with both Michelle Stuart and Joel Perlman. Her MA in Art from Hunter College studying with Robert Morris and award winning critic Rosalind Krauss. She received the Guggenheim Fellowships in 1984 in Multi- Media. Her work has been widely exhibited most recently reading at Oto in the UK with poet and publisher David Grundy and Fred Moten at Blank Forms Gallery , Brooklyn , N.Y. 2024 . She is represented by Holly Bush Gardens Gallery , UK. Hill’s most recent books of poetry are Muss Sill , Distance No Object publisher and Short Leash Kept On , published by Materials Press. UK & Berlin and African Voices Fall 2025 edition. Recent multi media exhibitions ,March - June , 2025 at Kettles Yard Museum, Cambridge UK with a solo exhibit scheduled at Holly Bush Gardens in 2026. Her art work may be seen currently on view , London Frieze October 2025 also at the newly reopened Montauk Playhouse , Montauk , NY, through October 2025 , Here and There , The Church , Sag Harbor through December,