Raja Lubinetzki: A Poetry Sounding

The US sounding debut of poetry by Afro-German poet, Raja Lubinetzki. Born in Kröpstadt/Anhalt (German Democratic Republic) to Cameroonian and German parents, Lubinetzki developed her first works as part of an underground “Prenzlauer Berg” scene of Berlin-based poets and artists. Trained in typesetting and visual arts, she develops etchings and texts that meditate on music, time, and the potential of lyric subjectivity to mark and redefine boundaries of race, language, and utopia. Her works have appeared in journals across Europe, as well as four officially published collections and artbooks held by special archives in the US and Germany. Her biography and poetry figured into the seminal volume, Farbe bekennen (1986) [Showing our colors (1992)], which established a platform for Black German women’s voices, lives, and scholarship on both sides of the Atlantic.

This event marks the US debut of recordings by Raja Lubinetzki from her first postsocialist collection, Der Tag ein Funke. Aus dem Tagebuch des Logik Verfalls (Gerhard Wolf Janus Press, 2001), and features interactive translation and a concluding performance by kondo+spencer.

Translation by Esther K. Heller (M.F.A. '24 / Comparative Literature, Harvard University), commentary by Dr. Katrina L. Nousek (German Studies), and musical accompaniment by Spencer Hadley (German Studies).

Free and open to the public.

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