Thursday, May 7, 7–9pm, join members of the 2025–2026 Forging journal cohort for a conversation on issues and opportunities facing writers working today hosted at Performance Space New York as part of Forge Project’s year-long installation and residency in PSNY’s OPEN ROOM.

Forging editorial advisory committee member Joseph M. Pierce will moderate a conversation between writers and cohort members Adrienne Keene and Angélica María Cuevas on working across genres, languages, and geographical contexts, from personal histories of displacement on Cherokee Nation to current fights for territorial sovereignty in the Amazon. The writers will also discuss how they engage with and hold themselves accountable to these stories, and the role art plays in mobilizing narratives beyond cultural spaces and into broader political arenas.