Ace AIR: Morgan Parker

Ace Hotel New York

Program: AIR
Location: Ace Hotel New York
Date of Stay: 08/16/15 
Artist: Morgan Parker

For her residency night at Ace Hotel New York, author / poet / artist Morgan Parker created 13 Ways of Looking at a Blk Girl. Pictured above, the original document is 8.5″ x 11″, pencil on hotel stationary (bond). You can download a PDF for free here. 

Morgan Parker is the author of Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night(Switchback Books 2015). A Cave Canem fellow, editor at Little A, and poetry editor for The Offing, Morgan lives in Brooklyn where she also co-curates the Poets With Attitude (PWA) reading series with Tommy Pico.

This August, our Artists in Residence have been curated by Oyster, one of our favorite ways to read on a smartphone or tablet. Oyster allows folks to discover new books, download them and even read them offline, say if you’re tunnel bound and so on. 

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