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Poet Simone White and theologian Ruby Sales discuss faith in institutions and faith as an institutionPublished on the occasion of Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen? at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the book series Who Is Queen? adapts conversations between pairs of notable writers, theorists, philosophers and musicians into contrapuntal texts intertwined with archival photographs and additional writings.Ruby Sales (born 1948) is a social critic, educator, public theologian and the founder and director of the SpiritHouse Project. Her work appears in journals and books and is cited in films and documentaries.Simone White (born 1972) is a poet and critic. Her most recent work is the book-length poem or, on being the other woman (2020). Also the author of Dear Angel of Death (2018), Of Being Dispersed (2016) and House Envy of All the World (2010), she is Stephen M. Gorn Family Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.

Composers and musicians Matana Roberts and Tyshawn Sorey discuss the collaborative nature of solo music and composing as an embodiment of the selfPublished on the occasion of Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen? at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the book series Who Is Queen? adapts conversations between pairs of notable writers, theorists, philosophers and musicians into contrapuntal texts intertwined with archival photographs and additional writings.Matana Roberts (born 1975) is a sound experimentalist, musician, composer and alto saxophonist who works in many performance and sound mediums, including improvisation, dance, poetry and theater.Newark-born composer and multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey (born 1980) is celebrated for his virtuosity, his mastery of highly complex scores and an ability to blend composition and improvisation. He has performed nationally and internationally with his own ensembles and with artists such as John Zorn, Roscoe Mitchell, Muhal Richard Abrams, Wadada Leo Smith, Marilyn Crispell, George E. Lewis, Jason Moran, Evan Parker, Anthony Braxton and Myra Melford, among others.

Poets and writers Susan Howe and Alexis Pauline Gumbs read each other's work and discuss reading and being read as an act of intimacyPublished on the occasion of Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen? at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the book series Who Is Queen? adapts conversations between pairs of notable writers, theorists, philosophers and musicians into contrapuntal texts intertwined with archival photographs and additional writings.Alexis Pauline Gumbs (born 1982) is the author of several books, most recently Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (2020), and the cofounder of the Mobile Homecoming Trust, an "intergenerational experiential living library of Black LBGTQ brilliance."Susan Howe's (born 1937) most recent poetry collection was Concordance, published in 2020 along with a reissue of Spontaneous Particulars (2014), a prose meditation on her research in rare book collections. Her selected essays, collected in The Quarry, were published in 2015, and a poetry collection, Debths (2017), won Canada's Griffin Award for Poetry in 2018.

Performance studies scholar Joshua Chambers-Letson and political philosopher Michael Hardt discuss the politics of love and the composition of social movementsPublished on the occasion of Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen? at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the book series Who Is Queen? adapts conversations between pairs of notable writers, theorists, philosophers and musicians into contrapuntal texts intertwined with archival photographs and additional writings.Joshua Chambers-Letson (born 1980) is professor of performance studies at Northwestern University, author of After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life (2018) and A Race So Different: Law and Performance in Asian America (2013), and coeditor with Tavia Nyong'o of José Esteban Muñoz's The Sense of Brown (2020).Michael Hardt (born 1960) teaches at Duke University, where he is codirector of the Social Movements Lab. Among the books he has coauthored with Antonio Negri are Empire (2000) and, most recently, Assembly (2017).

Oscar the Mouse is a joyful story about a mischievous little mouse, who becomes a little girl''s first pet, and the adventures they share. This book was created to make reading fun for young children and "help them engage their imagination and creativity," says Sam Baker, the 99-year-old author.