Join us for a reading and conversation on the value of experimental and challenging art with Fonograf Editions authors Jaydra Johnson and Jessica Pedrosa. We’ll also be celebrating Fonograf’s Give!Guide fundraising campaign and the one-year anniversary of Jaydra Johnson’s award-winning debut, Low: Notes on Art and Trash
This event is part of the Give!Guide fundraiser. Support independent literature, experimental publishing, and the artists who make it possible!
A sliding-scale donation of $5-$20 is suggested; no one will be turned away for lack of funds
About Fonograf Editions
Fonograf Editions brings life to works that resist, bend, and break expectations while ensuring they remain accessible to the public. They do this by making a portion of each release available for free (such as streaming audio online), and by hosting multiple free community events each year.
Established in 2016, Fonograf Editions is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit press and literary record label based in Portland, Oregon. The Paris Review Daily and Poets & Writers have written about Fonograf’s creation and development, and its books and records have been featured, reviewed, and named “best of the year” by publications including The New York Times, Artforum, The New York Times Book Review, Frieze, Harper’s, and The London Review of Books.
About the Authors
Jaydra Johnson is a writer, visual artist, and educator. Her writing has appeared in Oxford American, Epoch Review, Guernica, and Sedition, among others, and her visual work has been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Portland, and Columbus, Ohio. Johnson is the author of Low: Notes on Art and Trash (Fonograf, 2024) and Refuse Report, a bi-monthly newsletter exploring the tension between high and low art, currently hosted on Substack. She divides her time between New York City and Portland, Oregon.
Jessica Pedrosa is the author of the forthcoming Encircle (Fonograf, 2026), the novel Waves, and the poetry chapbooks Scorch Blush and Death Sprouts. Originally from the Arizona desert, she now lives in Portland, Oregon.