Lustre & Ruin: The Launch of Intimate Infinity / Intimität der Unendlichkei

Poets Sylee Gore and Donna Stonecipher and novelist Dilek Güngör will present their wonderful work at Chapters. Intimate Infinity is many things at once: an echo of Berlin Reified, one of the city's very first blogs; a companion to Maximum Summer (2025), Sylee Gore's first collection of poems; and an evocation of light and summer in Berlin. Sylee's photographs and asemic drawings sit alongside essays in German and English by two Berlin writers, the poet Donna Stonecipher and the novelist Dilek Güngör, and the three of them join us for an evening about lustre, ruin and the urban pastoral, a love letter to the city we're lucky enough to call home. About Sylee Gore: Sylee Gore is a literary translator and creative writing mentor based in Berlin, and was a U.S. National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow in Poetry in 2025. About Donna Stonecipher: Donna Stonecipher is the author of six books of poetry, most recently The Ruins of Nostalgia, named by NPR one of the best books of 2023, and of Prose Poetry and the City (2018). Her narrative nonfiction book on Berlin and architectural ornament, The Secret Life and Death of Ornament in Berlin, supported by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, is forthcoming in 2027. About Dilek Güngör: Dilek Güngör studied in Germersheim, Mainz and Warwick before working as an editor at the Berliner Zeitung and deputy editor-in-chief of Kulturaustausch. She has published six books, including Vater und ich (2021), nominated for the Deutscher Buchpreis, and most recently A wie Ada (2024). She leads writing workshops for children and adults.