Bad Omens by Luke Roberts is out now and he will be out and about reading and in conversation to launch the book this month.

On 2 July he was in conversation with Holly Pester at the London Review Bookshop to launch her new collection, Cafés (Fitzcarraldo, 2026).

Then on 7 July at Pages of Hackney, Luke will be in conversation with with T. S. Eliot Prize-winner Anthony Smith about his new book, Haunting the Black Air. Tickets here.

And at Housmans on 10 July we will launch Bad Omens with readings from Luke and special guest Peter Gizzi, as part of the Housman’s Poetry Series. The event is free but please RSVP (and you can preorder the book) here.

More events TBA!

8 July 2026, 6.30pm
192 Books, 192 10th Ave, New York, NY 10011
Free but please register here.

Following a series of events in London to celebrate the publication of Robert Frost, Stacy Skolnik has curated a poetry reading in NYC with the extraordinary poets and artists, Courtney Bush, Rob Fitterman, Shanzhai Lyric, and Otis Houston Jr., hosted by the Brooklyn Rail.

Doors open at 6:30 pm and the reading begins at 7 pm.

11 September – 21 November 2024
Artists Space, 11 Cortlandt Alley, New York 10013

“My video and performance work are explorations of language structures inherent in written and spoken material, photographic and filmic images —the creation of new relationships and meanings in the simultaneity of these forms.” – Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Artists Space presents Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings, the first retrospective in twenty-five years dedicated to the groundbreaking work of the artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. Cha produced an expansive range of works across text-based media, video, and performance, including her genre-defying book, Dictée (1982). The artist’s interdisciplinary practice contributed to experimental art scenes in New York City, San Francisco, Paris, and beyond.

After emigrating from South Korea to the United States, Cha enrolled at UC Berkeley in 1969, where she studied art practice, comparative literature, and film. Keenly attuned to the active role that audiences play in the creation of meaning, she prioritized nonlinear narratives to allow for more open-ended forms of interpretation—what she termed a method of “Multiple Telling with Multiple Offering.” This retrospective adopts her framework to allow for a range of entry points into the work, guiding visitors through the themes—memory, displacement, and the mutability of language, among others—that recur in Cha’s oeuvre.

Cha moved to New York City in 1980, where she supported herself with several jobs while pursuing her artistic career. She worked as an administrative assistant in the European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, taught video art at Elizabeth Seton College in Yonkers, and served as an editor at Tanam Press, a publishing imprint dedicated to artists’ books that was founded by her friend and collaborator Reese Williams.

On November 5, 1982, Cha’s short but prolific career came to an end when she was murdered just weeks before her planned exhibition at Artists Space. At the time of her death, Cha was producing a new photographic series inspired by her time working at the Met. Multiple Offerings presents that unfinished series of black-and-white prints alongside nearly one hundred artworks and archival materials from across her career, highlighting the inventive, playful, and meditative methods of Cha’s practice.

In 2025 Book Works published distinguish the limit from the edge, an artists book containing work by Cha and Jimmy Robert, edited by Jacob Korczynski.