A week-long summer reading series at the Cornelia Street Cafe.
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Charlotte Mandel - "Marble" and "Aid of the Madonna"
Charlotte Mandel's six books of poetry include Sight Lines (Midmarch Arts Press) and two poem-novellas of feminist biblical revision. She edited the Barnes Award Anthology Saturday's Women. She has published a series of articles on the role of cinema in the life and work of H.D. She teaches poetry writing at Barnard College Center for Research on Women.
Dana Maisel - "Love Songs: Sections I-XIII"
Dana Maisel is a poet and artist living in New York. She is currently working on Entropy and Ocean for Inoculate theater.
E. Tracy Grinnell - "Letters of the Unliving" and "Mass-Production on 14th Street"
E. Tracy Grinnell is the author of Some Clear Souvenir (O Books, 2006), Of the Frame (a duration press ebook), Music or Forgetting (O Books, 2001), Harmonics (Melodeon Poetry Systems, 2000) and with Paul Foster Johnson, Quadriga (gong chapbooks, 2006). She edits Litmus Press and its annual magazine, Aufgabe.
Eléna Rivera - "Time-Bomb" and "Songs to Joannes: Section XVIII"
Eléna Rivera is the author of Mistakes, Accidents and a Want of Liberty (Barque Press, 2006), Suggestions at Every Turn (Seeing Eye Books, 2005), Unknowne Land (Kelsey St. Press, 2000), and a recent pamphlet entitled Disturbances in the Ocean of Air (Phylum Press, 2005). She was a MacDowell fellow (spring 2005), won first prize in the 1998 Stand Magazine International Poetry Competition, and the 1999 Frances Jaffer Book Award.
Evelyn Reilly - "Songs to Joannes: Sections XXV, XXVI, XXVII"
Evelyn Reilly's first book, Hiatus, was published by Barrow Street Press in 2004. She lives in New York and recently taught at St. Mark's Poetry Project. Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs will publish her chapbook, Fervant Remnants of Reflective Surfaces, this fall.
Karen Garthe - "Effectual Marriage"
Karen Garthe’s poetry has appeared in New American Writing, the Chicago Review, American Letters & Commentary, Volt, Fence, etc. Her book Frayed Escort, published in Spring 2006, was the winner of the 2005 Colorado Prize judged by Cal Bedient
Kate Bornstein - "Apology of Genius"
Kate Bornstein's shiny new book from Seven Stories Press is Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws, which can be previewed at http://www.hellocruelworld.net/.
Kiely Sweatt - "Brancusi's Golden Bird"
Kiely Sweatt was born outside Philadelphia and later moved to Dallas, Texas. She studies at The New School for poetry and has lived in New York just shy of a year. She is a member of the Biggs Collective, a publishing collective.
Kristin Prevallet - "International PsychoDemocracy" from "Feminist Manifesto"
Kristin Prevallet is the author of Shadow Evidence Intelligence (Factory School, 2006). She lives in Brooklyn.
Kythe Heller - "The Little Review Questionnaire" and "Der Blinde Junge"
Kythe Heller is the author of Fire Ceremony, a collection of poems forthcoming from Lost Luna in 2006. Her poems have been published in The Southern Review, Lyric, Big City Lit, and elsewhere, and she is currently on the creative writing faculty of Hofstra University.
Laura Elrick - "O Hell" and "Lady Laura of Bohemia"
Laura Elrick's book Fantasies in Permeable Structures is recently out from Factory School (2005) in Vol. 1 of the Heretical Texts series. She is also the author of sKincerity (Krupskaya, 2003) and is one of the featured writers on Women In the Avant Garde, an audio CD produced by Narrow House Recordings in 2004.
Liesel Tarquini - "Three Moments in Paris"
Liesel Tarquini divides her time between her apartment and the MFA program at The New School where she is preparing to begin her 2nd year. When she is not writing she is sleeping or distracting other writers from writing.
Lynne Procope– “July in Vallombrosa” from “Italian Pictures”
Lynne Procope is a poet from Trinidad. She is the co-author of Burning Down the House and a poet-in-residence with the VisionIntoArt performance ensemble. She is one of the founders of the louderARTS Project.
Meghan Punschke - "Poe" and "Joyce's Ulysses"
Meghan Punschke resides in New York City and is currently attending The New School for an MFA in poetry. Her work has appeared in Free Focus. She is the host of “Word of Mouth,” a reading series in the West Village dedicated to poets and fiction writers. Her work will also appear in MiPoesias.
S.E. Grant - "Parturition"
S.E. Grant graduated from Princeton in 2005, and is currently pursuing an MFA at The New School in creative writing. By day, she works as a writer at Vault, but by night, she works on her novel, Short Attn. Span Theater.
Sina Queyras - "Crab-angel"
Sina Queyras’ Lemon Hound was published by Coach House Books this spring. Last year she edited Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets. This fall an excerpt from Autobiography of Childhood, her novel-in-progress will appear in translation in the French literary journal Siecle 21. She is one-third curator of the belladonna reading series and still lives tentatively in Brooklyn. This fall she will offer a poetry workshop at Poets House on entering the texts of others.
Soraya Shalforoosh - "The Mediterranean Sea"
Soraya Shalforoosh was recently featured in the Emerging Poets Series, in the Academy of American Poet's magazine, American Poet. Shalforoosh's poems have appeared in journals such as the Marlboro Review, Barrow Street, Columbia Poetry Review, etc. Soraya received her MFA in Creative Writing, Poetry from The New School.
Tree Swenson - "Luna Baedecker" and "Moreover, the Moon -- --"
Tree Swenson is the executive director of the Academy of American Poets. Previously, she was the executive director and publisher of Copper Canyon Press, which she co-founded in 1972, and where she worked for twenty years publishing poetry.
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A. Naomi Jackson - "Stations"
Born and raised in Brooklyn by Caribbean parents, A. Naomi Jackson is a writer of short fiction and poetry. A graduate of Williams College and a recipient of a Fulbright grant to South Africa, her work has appeared in Caribbean Beat and Chimurenga Online and is forthcoming in Mosaic and Sable magazines.
April Biggs - "To the Girl Who Lives in a Tree" and "Movement Song"
April Biggs has lived in New York for eight years and is currently pursuing an MFA in poetry at The New School. She is artistic director/choreographer of Biggs & Company, a modern dance company based in the city. She is also the founder of The Biggs, a writing collective. April resides in Brooklyn with her partner, Cub, and their five four-legged darlings.
Crystal Rodwell - "Harriet" and an excerpt from "Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference."
Crystal Rodwell is an artist who has engaged her physical senses in the aesthetic process; her crochet creations and collages captivate the tactile while her poetry, prose and songs enlist the auditory for a singular experience. She facilitates youth poetry workshops and currently attends City College in pursuit of her MA in English Language and Literacy.
Cynthia Manick - "To the Poet Who Happens to Be Black and the Black Poet Who Happens to Be a Woman"
Cynthia Manick resides in Brooklyn, New York. She is currently attending The New School for an MFA in poetry, and is working on her first book of poetry.
Donna Masini
Hettie Jones - "Now that I am Forever with Child"
Hettie Jones is the author of Drive, which won the Poetry Society of America's Norman Farber Award, All Told, and the forthcoming Doing 70, all from Hanging Loose Press. Her memoir, How I Became Hettie Jones, is available from Grove. She teaches writing at The New School and at the 92nd Street Y Poetry Center.
Jacqueline Johnson - "Between Ourselves"
Jacqueline Johnson is the winner of the 1997 third annual White Pine Press Award for Poetry. Her poetry book A Gathering of Mother Tongues was published by White Pine Press in the spring of 1998. She is at work on two new projects: a poetry book, The Place Where Memory Dwells, and a collection of short stories, Songs of Ikari.
Jen Coleman - "To a girl who knew what side her bread was buttered on" and "The seventh sense"
Jen Coleman lives in Brooklyn, works at Environmental Defense, and edits Pom2 journal with her friends (pompompress.com). You can see some of her poems at http://www.speakeasy.org/~subtext//poetry/jencoleman/ and at http://www.theeastvillage.com/t12/coleman/a.htm.
Karen Swenson - "To My Daughter The Junkie on the A Train"
Karen Swenson has published four books of poetry with Doubleday, The Smith and Copper Canyon. For the last 25 years she has traveled to Asia and has circumambulated the holy mountain, Kailash, in Tibet five times. She has taught at NYU, Denver University, Barnard, Clark, Skidmore, Scripps and the University of Idaho.
Kim Irwin - "Recreation" and "Woman"
When I was born
I didn’t know I was white
or that I would be erotic
or a feminist
or an artist
but never a mother.
I didn’t know I would love a black woman.
I didn’t know James Baldwin would tell me who I am
or I would write poetry
to no longer be white.
Lee Schwartz - excerpt from The Cancer Journals
Lee Schwartz lives a few blocks away and used to come to this spot when it was the Cafe Cino. She has published in several journals including Hidden Book Press and the Villager newspaper. She just completed an Artist in Residency at the 92nd Street Y.
Marie Ponsot– “Bicentennial Poem # 21,000,000,” “Equinox,” “Viet-nam Addenda”
Native New Yorker Marie Ponsot was born in 1921. She has published numerous works, including Springing (Alfred A. Knopf, 2002); The Bird Catcher (1998), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; The Green Dark (1988); Admit Impediment (1981); and True Minds (1957). Ponsot, who also translates books from the French, has taught in graduate programs at Queens College, Beijing United University, the Poetry Center of the YMHA, and New York University. Among her awards are a creative writing grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Prize, and the Shaughnessy Medal of the Modern Language Association. Marie Ponsot teaches in the graduate writing program at Columbia University in New York City.
Meena Alexander - "Diaspora"
Meena Alexander was born in India and raised there and in the Sudan. Her volumes of poetry include Raw Silk (2004) and Illiterate Heart ( winner of the 2002 PEN Open Book Award). Her memoir Fault Lines (in which she writes of teaching with Audre at Hunter) appeared in a new expanded edition in 2003. She is working on a new volume of autobiographical poems and a volume of essays on migration, memory and poetry.
Meghan Punschke - "A Woman Speaks"
Meghan Punschke resides in New York City and is currently attending The New School for an MFA in poetry. Her work has appeared in Free Focus. She is the host of “Word of Mouth,” a reading series in the West Village dedicated to poets and fiction writers. Her work will also appear in MiPoesias.
Nicole Sealey - "Separation" and "Revolution Is One Form of Social Change"
Nicole Sealey is a poet as well as a freelance writer and editor. Her poem, "Roots, Rock, Race," is forthcoming in Feeding the Soul: Black Music, Black Thought, an anthology published by Third World Press.
Patricia Spears Jones - "Mahalia" and "Solstice"
African American poet and playwright, Patricia Spears Jones is the author of two collections: Femme du Monde (Tia Chuca Press, 2006) and The Weather That Kills (Coffee House Press, 1995) and the play 'Mother'. She was co-editor of the ground-breaking, multi-cultural anthology: Ordinary Women in 1978
Rashidah Ismaili - "Song in Many Movements
Rashidah Ismaili is a writer of poetry, short stories and plays. Her works appear in journals and anthologies widely. She has two collections of poems in print a play and a collection of short stories is due out this fall. She teaches in an MA program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University in PA and is working on a memoir.
Samiya Bashir - "Who Said It Was Simple"
Samiya Bashir is the author of the Lammy-Award nominated poetry collection Where the Apple Falls, editor of Best Black Women's Erotica 2 and co-editor of Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Literature & Art. Bashir is a graduate of the Cave Canem Poetry Workshop and a founding organizer of Fire & Ink: Writer's Festival for LGBT Writers of African Descent.
Siobhan Ciminera - "A Litany for Survival"
Siobhan Ciminera is about to start her second year as a poetry MFA student at The New School. When she isn’t being a poet, she’s working at Penguin Young Readers Group where she edits children’s books.
Susan Brennan - "From the House of Yemanja" and "Vigil"
Susan Brennan's poetry appears in Terra Incognita (translated), Unpleasant Events Schedule, Calabash Journal, Painted Bride Quarterly, Cake Train and Margie. She is the producer and host of Radio Poetique, an on-line audio archive.
Suzanne Gardinier - "Power" and "Today Is Not the Day"
Suzanne Gardinier is the author of a long poem called "The New World" and a book of essays on poetry and politics called A World That Will Hold All the People. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence and lives in Manhattan.
Tara Betts - "School Note" and "jessehelms"
Tara Betts, an MFA candidate at New England College and Cave Canem graduate, has worked as an educator, performer, freelance writer, arts administrator and activist. Her work has appeared in several anthologies, Women's Studies Quarterly, Essence, FEMSPEC, at the National Poetry Slam and on HBO's Def Poetry Jam.
Terri Muuss - "Coal" and "Electric Slide Boogie"
Terri Muuss is an actor, poet, teacher, director, and social worker. She is the writer and performer of the one-woman show Anatomy of a Doll, which she has appeared in at numerous theaters, conferences, high schools and universities throughout New York City and Long Island, as well as in Washington DC, California, and Canada. The show received The Daily News’ “Best Theatre-Pick of the Week” for its initial run in the city. But Terri's most challenging and rewarding role is being mother to her beautiful 7 month old son, Rainer.
Tracey McTague - Selections from the Epilogue of A Burst of Light
Tracey McTague lives at the geographic apex of Brooklyn on Battle Hill where she curates a reading series of the same name, co edits Lungfull! Magazine and cooks up covers for the Poetry Project Newsletter. She is a writer and visual artist whose work includes a number of chapbooks. She vandalizes private property on a regular basis.
Vickie Karp - "Never to Dream of Spiders" and "For Each of You"
Vickie Karp’s first book, A Taxi to the Flame, was published in 1999. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and anthologies including David Lehman’s Best American Poetry series. Her forthcoming documentary play on W. H. Auden and Carson McCullers – “Venus Will Now Say A Few Words” -- will premiere in 2007/2008.
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Ada Limón - "Waiting for Icarus" and "Resurrection of the Right Side"
Ada Limón is originally from Sonoma, California. A graduate of the Creative Writing Program at New York University, she has received fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, New York Foundation for the Arts, and won the Chicago Literary Award for Poetry. Her first book, lucky wreck, was the winner of the 2005 Autumn House Poetry Prize and her second book, this big fake world, was the winner of the 2005 Pearl Poetry Prize and is due out in the fall.
Amanda Lichtenberg - "Effort at Speech Between Two People"
Born and raised in New York City, Amanda Lichtenberg’s poetry has been published in journals and anthologies, most recently in Lungfull. Amanda was a first place recipient of the Amy Award in 2001 and received her MFA from New England College in 2005.
Betsy Andrews - "Waking this Morning" and "Despisals"
Betsy Andrews' book, New Jersey, winner of the University of Wisconsin's Brittingham Prize in Poetry, comes out in February 2007.
Bonnie Rose Marcus - "Artifact"
Bonnie Rose Marcus is Director of the Readings/Workshops and Writers Exchange programs at Poets & Writers. A poet and theatre artist, she has read and performed at a variety of venues including ABC NO RIO, Cornelia Street Cafe, Playwright's Horizon, Night and Day, Tony N' Tina's Wedding and Synaethestic Theatre. She is presently working on a book of poetry based on her experiences working in hospice.
Carley Moore - "In Hades, Orpheus" and "Boy With His Hair Cut Short"
Carley Moore' s poetry has been published in Fence, La Petite Zine, and Painted Bride Quarterly. She teaches writing and cultural studies in the General Studies Program at New York University and is finishing a book entitled A Subscription to Trouble: Seventeen Magazine and the Girl Writer 1963-1999.
Cynthia Kraman - "Gradus ad Parnassum," "Ms. Lot," "Salamander," and "The Flying Red Horse"
Cynthia Kraman is the author of three collections of poetry as well as short stories, essays, plays and articles on Medieval literature. She was part of the punk/no wave music scene in Seattle as lead singer and songwriter for Chinas Comidas (CD available on cd baby). She is currently an associate professor of English. Her work is online at Speechless, the magazine.
Dana Maisel - "Wreath of Women" and "Suicide Blues"
Dana Maisel is a poet and artist living in New York. She is currently working on Entropy and Ocean for Inoculate theater.
Elinor Nauen - "The Road" and "The Refuges"
Elinor Nauen is the author or editor of American Guys; CARS and Other Poems; Ladies, Start Your Engines: Women Writers on Cars & The Road; Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend: Women Writers on Baseball; and So Late into the Night, a recently completed booklength poem in ottava rima.
Gina Myers - seventh poem from "Nine Poems for the Unborn Child"
Gina Myers lives in Brooklyn where she co-edits the tiny with Gabriella Torres.
Jan Freeman– “Among Grass” and “The Poem as Mask”
Jan Freeman is the author of three collections of poetry: Simon Says, Hyena, and Autumn Sequence. She is publisher of Paris Press, which she founded in order to re-issue Rukeyser's The Life of Poetry. She lives in Ashfield, MA.
Jeanne Marie Beaumont - "Recovering," "Fable" and "Looking at Each Other"
Jeanne Marie Beaumont is the author of two collections, Curious Conduct and Placebo Effects, and coeditor of The Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales. She teaches at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y.
Jennifer Bartlett - "Three Sides of a Coin"
Jennifer Bartlett was a 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow. Her first collection, Derivative of the Moving Image, is forthcoming from the University of New Mexico Press.
Karen Swenson - "The Ballad of Orange and Grape"
Karen Swenson has published four books of poetry with Doubleday, The Smith and Copper Canyon. For the last 25 years she has traveled to Asia and has circumambulated the holy mountain, Kailash, in Tibet five times. She has taught at NYU, Denver University, Barnard, Clark, Skidmore, Scripps and the University of Idaho.
Lee Briccetti– “Poem White Page White Page Poem” and and excerpt of “Kathe Kollwitz”
Lee Briccetti is Executive Director of Poets House, a 45,000-volume poetry archive and meeting place for poets and poetry readers in New York City. She has received a New York Foundation for the Arts Award for Poetry and has been a Poetry Fellow at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Herf irst book of poems, Day Mark, has just been released from Four Way Books.
Maggie Balistreri - "Seventh Avenue"
Maggie Balistreri is the author of The Evasion-English Dictionary. She has appeared on NPR's "All Things Considered" and C-SPAN's BookTV. With Jen Benka, Maggie co-hosted the 24-hour marathon reading of the complete poems of Emily Dickinson at the Bowery Poetry Club.
Michael Carman - "M-Day's Child Is Fair of Face"
Michael Carman is a poet and writer who teaches poetry at Sing Sing Prison and enjoys leading writing workshops for Poets & Writers whenever she can. She’s currently working on a chapbook and a family memoir.
Nicole Steinberg - "What I See" and "Poem"
Nicole Steinberg is the Associate Editor of BOMB Magazine and an Associate Poetry Editor of LIT. She hosts and curates the Earshot Reading Series in Brooklyn, dedicated to promoting the work and presence of emerging writers. She recently received her MFA in poetry from The New School.
Salita Bryant
Sarah Ruth Jacobs - "The Children's Orchard"
Sarah Ruth Jacobs is an MFA candidate in poetry at The New School and a 2006 recipient of the Poets & Writers' Amy Award. Her first poetry collection, Valence, was published by Flarestack Press in 2005.
Soraya Shalforoosh - "This House, This Country"
Soraya Shalforoosh was recently featured in the Emerging Poets Series in the Academy of American Poet's magazine, American Poet. Shalforoosh's poems have appeared in journals such as the Marlboro Review, Barrow Street, Columbia Poetry Review, etc. Soraya received her MFA in Creative Writing, Poetry from The New School.
Stephanie Strickland - "Statement: Philippa Allen"
Stephanie Strickland is both a print and electronic poet. Her fourth book V: WaveSon.nets/Losing L’una, has a web component. Award-winning works include V, True North, The Red Virgin, and Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot.
Susan Brennan - "Sounds of Night in the Country of the Opposites"
Susan Brennan's poetry appears in Terra Incognita (translated),Unpleasant Events Schedule, Calabash Journal, Painted Bride Quarterly, Cake Train and Margie. She is the producer and host of Radio Poetique, an on-line audio archive.
Susan Thomas - "College Radicals," "What Do We See," and "I Make My Magic"
Susan E. Thomas works as a librarian at BMCC/CUNY and previously worked at the Pratt Institute Library. Her publications include work in Red China Magazine, Cream City Review, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency. She is working on collection tentatively called Camellia vs. Azalea.
Suzanne Gardinier - "The Conjugation of the Parmecium" and "St. Roach"
Suzanne Gardinier is the author of a long poem called "The New World" and a book of essays on poetry and politics called A World That Will Hold All the People. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence and lives in Manhattan.
Tamara Fishman - "Bubble of Air" and "Myth"
Tamara Fishman is a guitar-playing singer-songwriter with "an unrivaled voice" (according to Audio Venus, Women in Music & Media) who has performed at various venues in New York City, including CB's 313 Gallery and Pianos. Her songs of loss and longing--often imbued with a defiant search for a resonant life--can be heard on her debut CD, The Hunger and the Silence. Please visit her website at http://www.tamarubi.com/.
Tara Betts - "The Blood is Justified," "It Is There," and "Trinity Churchyard"
Tara Betts, an MFA candidate at New England College and Cave Canem graduate, has worked as an educator, performer, freelance writer, arts administrator and activist. Her work has appeared in several anthologies, Women's Studies Quarterly, Essence, FEMSPEC, at the National Poetry Slam and on HBO's Def Poetry Jam.
Vivian Gornick - "This Place In The Ways" and "To Enter That Rhythm Where The Self Is Lost"
Vivian Gornick is a non-fiction writer of memoirs, personal essays and literary criticism. Among her books are Fierce Attachments, Approaching Eye Level and The End of the Novel of Love. She lives in New York City.
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