Draw Me After: Book Launch with Peter Cole, Terry Winters, Claire Gilman, and Joshua Cohen

Join The Drawing Center’s Chief Curator Claire Gilman, artist Terry Winters, novelist Joshua Cohen, and poet Peter Cole to celebrate Cole’s new collection of poems Draw Me After, out November 22 from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. In a wide-ranging conversation about art and literature, they’ll consider the ways that drawing, desire and deep-translation come together, especially in Draw Me After’s central poem in which Cole “translates” a series of drawings by Winters. The evening will be moderated by Cohen and will include readings by Cole.

“Peter Cole shows himself in Draw Me After to be our great master of ekphrasis. Visually, sonically, rhythmically, semantically, his are some of the most inventive, witty, profound, and genuinely beautiful lyric poems of our moment.”—Marjorie Perloff, author of Infrathin: An Experiment in Micropoetics

Peter Cole was born in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1957. The author of six books of poems, he has also translated widely from Hebrew and Arabic—medieval and modern. He is the recipient of many honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, a PEN Translation Prize for Poetry, a National Jewish Book Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He divides his time between Jerusalem and New Haven.

Terry Winters (b. 1949) lives and works in New York City and Columbia County, New York. He has had one-person exhibitions at numerous museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London, the Kunsthalle Basel, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The Drawing Center in New York organized a survey of his drawings in 2018.

Joshua Cohen was born in 1980 in Atlantic City. His books include the novels Moving Kings, Book of Numbers, Witz, the nonfiction collection Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction, and most recently, The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family, which won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. He lives in New York City.