a series of video recordings of contemporary poets reading from their work, prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent cancellations, shut-downs and isolations; a reading series you can enjoy in the safety of your own protected space,
Emily Murman : “for grace” and “for grace no. 2”
Emily Murman is a poet and educator from Chicago. She holds a Bachelor’s of Arts in Writing from Lake Forest College and graduated in 2018. She is currently pursuing her MFA in poetry via National University. Her debut chapbook, SHRIVEL + BLOOM, is forthcoming via Dancing Girl Press in 2020. As of July 2020, she is a reader for Monstering Magazine. Emily can be found on Twitter @emilymurman.
Tony Iantosca : “To the Attic,” “Legible Heights” and “Untitled”
Tony Iantosca is a poet and educator living in Brooklyn, NY. His poems can be found in A Glimpse Of, Second Factory, 6x6, Lungfull!, a Perimeter, among other publications. He is the author of two chapbooks—Naked Forest Spaces (Third Floor Apartment Press, 2013) and Team Burnout (Overpass Books, 2013)—and a full length collection, Shut Up, Leaves. (United Artists Books, 2015). His most recent collection of poems, To the Attic, is just out from Spuyten-Duyvil Publishing. He is a lecturer in the English department at Kingsborough Community College (CUNY) in Brooklyn, NY.
Jennifer Hasegawa : “Rockets With Rear-View Mirrors,” “Queen of Needles” For Philip Seymour Hoffman and “After the Islands, c. 1961,” For Agnes Martin
Jennifer Hasegawa is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet who has sold funeral insurance door-to-door and had her suitcase stolen from a plastic surgery clinic in Asunción, Paraguay. She was born and raised in Hilo, Hawaiʻi and lives in San Francisco. The manuscript for her first book of poetry, La Chica’s Field Guide to Banzai Living, won the Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award. Her work has appeared in The Adroit Journal, Bamboo Ridge, Bennington Review, Tule Review, and Vallum and is forthcoming in jubilat.
Joshua Marie Wilkinson : “How the Past Cheats”
Joshua Marie Wilkinson is the author of something called Bad Woods. He lives in Seattle.
Claire Farley : “Real Lemon,” “Care” and “Floodplain”
Claire Farley
lives and works on unceded and unsurrendered Anishinaabeg territory. She is a
doctoral candidate in English at the University of Ottawa and a co-founder of Canthius.
Bait & Switch (Anstruther Press, 2020) is her first chapbook.
