CarL Hancock Rux

APPEARING: My Words are Music: A Celebration of Sun Ra’s Poetry @ Nublu

Tuesday, January 16

Carl Hancock Rux is an American poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, recording artist, actor, theater director, radio journalist, as well as a frequent collaborator in the fields of film, modern dance, and contemporary art. He is the author of several books including the Village Voice Literary Prize-winning collection of poetry, Pagan Operetta, the novel, Asphalt, and the Obie Award-winning play, Talk. His music has been released internationally on several labels including Sony/550, Thirsty Ear, and Giant Step. Mr. Rux is also co-Artistic Director of Mabou Mines and Associate Artistic Director/Curator In Residence at Harlem Stage. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Doris Duke Award for New Works, the Doris Duke Charitable Fund, the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Prize, the Bessie Award and the Alpert Award in the Arts, and a 2019 Global Change Maker award by WeMakeChange.Org. Mr. Rux's archives are housed at the Billy Rose Theater Division of the New York Public Library, the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution as well as the Film and Video/Theater and Dance Library of the California Institute of the Arts.

Recent works include Rux’s three-part poem The Baptism (2020), a tribute to the legacies of civil rights leaders John Lewis and C.T. Vivian, commissioned by Lincoln Center, was made into a short abstract film directed by Carrie Mae Weems; I Dream a Dream that Dreams Back at Me, a site-specific Juneteenth celebration as part of Lincoln Center Restart Stages program; Archer Aymes Lost and Found Retrospective: A Juneteenth Exhibition at the Park Avenue Armory and San Juan Hill: A New York Story (2022) at Geffen Hall with Etienne Charles.