The reading brings together old and new works by Logan February and Otis Mensah, both participants of Displayed Words. Logan February is a poet, essayist, singer, songwriter and LGBTQ activist. After attending school in Ibadan, Nigeria and studying at Purdue University in the US, February currently lives in Berlin as a Literature Fellow of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program. Their new bilingual poetry collection, Mental Voodoo, was published by Engeler Verlag in 2023. The German translation is by Christian Filips, who will also take part in the reading.

Otis Mensah is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist whose work spans across fields of literature and sound, exploring the aesthetic fabric of language and cadence to evoke ethereal portraits of the body, family and notions of the Black church. Drawing inspiration from a rich lineage of sampling as an approach to their poetic-sonic practice, Mensah derives musicality and multidimensional text from childhood, dreaming and nature. Mensah's poem where the country could not follow was on display at Rathaus Tiergarten in early 2024. The performance will feature live accompaniment from Monica Mussungo, El Congo Allen, and Tim Granbacka.

The event is part of Displayed Words by CCA Berlin and takes place as part of Eine Tafel im Grünen - Erntedankfest auf dem Kulturforum, in cooperation with Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. The reading is in English and German. Free entry.