Deepali Gupta is a playwright, composer, and performance artist. Her work ranges from explicit choral settings to morbid love songs to freaky little musicals. Her work has been presented at Lincoln Center Theater, New York City Center, The Public (Under the Radar), Ars Nova, Joe’s Pub, Judson Memorial Church, The Bushwick Starr, The New Ohio, and Vital Joint. Recent projects as a performance artist include I Love You Stranger, No Way To Say Goodbye, and Over(Reverberating). Recent projects as a composer include original music for Madonna col bambino, Ski End, Cute Activist, and Minor Character. She is an Affiliated Artist with The Civilians and New Georges. B.A. Brown (Performance Studies); M.F.A. Tisch (Musical Theatre Writing). Website: deepaligupta.net Soundcloud: deepali (k) gupta
Joey de Jesus is an undying manticore hidden behind dark agendas and a glamouring amulet. Joey edits poetry for Apogee Journal and is a recipient of the 2017 NYFA/NYSCA Fellowship in Poetry and lives in Queens. Poems have appeared in Barrow Street, Bettering American Poetry, Brooklyn Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, BOAAT, Guernica, Puerto Rico en mi Corazon, Southern Humanities Review, The Volta, and elsewhere have been performed and installed in Artists Space, Basilica and The New Museum. dejesussaves.wordpress.com
Chase Berggrun is a trans poet. They are the author of R E D (Birds, LLC, 2018). Their work has appeared in POETRY, the PEN Poetry Series, Sixth Finch, Diagram, and elsewhere. They received their MFA from New York University, and are Poetry Editor at Big Luck
Rahsaan Mahadeo is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. He is currently completing his dissertation titled, “Transgressive Temporalities: How Racialized Youth in Urbanized Space Make Sense of Time.” In it, he looks at how time is racialized, how race is temporalized and how race, racialization and racism condition youth’s perspectives on time.
Vanessa Jimenez Gabb is the author of Images for Radical Politics, the Editor’s Pick in the 2015 Rescue Press Black Box Poetry Contest. Her work has appeared in PEN Poetry Series, The Brooklyn Rail, jubilat, Sixth Finch and VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. She teaches at Newark Academy in Livingston, NJ and is from and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Imani Elizabeth Jackson is a poet working between text, performance, and food. Jackson’s writings appear in Flag + Void, HOLD, Triple Canopy, Apogee, and elsewhere. She is currently an MFA candidate at Brown University and co-organizes the Chicago Art Book Fair.
Dacuyan is a poet, performer, and translator. His poems appear in DIAGRAM, Lambda Literary, Foundry, and Best New Poets, among other places, and he is the recipient of scholarships from Poets House, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Academy of American Poets. Prior to joining The Poetry Project, he served as Co-Director of National Outreach and Membership at PEN America, where he led the launch of a nationwide community engagement fund for writers. Before that, he served as Associate Director at the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America.
Born in 1933 and raised in London, David Bromige experienced the ravages and displacement of buzz bombs and rockets exploding around him. He emigrated to Canada in 1953, eventually settling in Vancouver where he attended the University of British Columbia. In his senior year he won the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, which took him to Berkeley, where he earned a Master’s degree and was a T.A. for Denise Levertov and Thom Gunn. His decades long friendship with Robert Duncan started then, and his first book, The Gathering was published in 1965 by Fred Wah. In 1970 he was hired by Sonoma State University to teach poetry and poetry writing. He stayed there 25 years and had a successful professorial and writing career, living primarily in Sebastopol, California.
He published 33 books, many of them from Black Sparrow Press. He won numerous awards
and toured the U.S., Canada, France and England often. He enjoyed steeping himself in
different schools of poetics: no book was ever like the last one. “The trouble is, you see, is
that the made-up mind tends to deliver itself only of its own clichés en route to its prior
conclusion”, he wrote. “Take one step to the left or right and perceptions change entirely.
Poetic knowing and its alternatives are as close as—as if is to is.”
David Bromige died in 2009 from complications from diabetes, leaving behind his wife,
Cecelia, children Christopher and Margaret and many friends and admirers.
Bronx, New York native, Roya Marsh, is a nationally ranked poet/performer/educator/activist. She is the Poet in Residence with Urban Word NYC and works feverishly toward LGBTQIA justice and dismantling white supremacy.
Roya’s work has been featured in Poetry Magazine, Flypaper Magazine, Frontier Poetry, Nylon Magazine, the Village Voice, Huffington Post, Blavity, The Root, Button Poetry, Def Jam’s All Def Digital, Lexus Verses and Flow, NBC, BET and the Breakbeat Poets Black Girl Magic Anthology (Haymarket 2018).
Sarah Riggs is a writer, artist, filmmaker and translator, www.sarahriggs.org. She has published poetry books with 1913 Press, Burning Deck, Reality Street, Ugly Duckling Presse, Chax, Editions de l’attente, and Le Bleu du Ciel as well as chapbooks with Belladonna* and Contrat Maint, and critical essays with Routledge. Forthcoming are paintings in collaboration with Emily Wallis Hughes’ book of poetry, Sugar Factory, with Spuyten Duyvil in 2018, a show of drawings for Laynie Browne’s Amulet Sonnets (forthcoming also as a book with Solid Objects) and translations of Etel Adnan’s Time from the French with Nightboat forthcoming 2019. Producer of The Tangier 8 and director of Six Lives, Riggs is currently working on a film of New York dancer choreographers including Daria Faïn, Emily Johnson, and Douglas Dunn. She has taught at Columbia and NYU in Paris, as well as Pratt in Brooklyn, and is working with Mirene Arsanios on the web publication of “Footprint Zero,”a project of especially New York and Morocco-based artists responding to the environmental crisis, for of the non-profit Tamaas, www.tamaas.org
Drew Gardner’s poetry books include Sugar Pill (Krupskaya), Petroleum Hat (Roof Books), Chomp Away (Combo Books) and, most recently, Defender (Edge Books). His anthology of unruly 20th century poetry is forthcoming from University of New Mexico Press. His Poetics Orchestra project combines poetry and conducted music ensembles. His work has appeared in Poetry, The Nation, and Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology. Gardner lives in New York City.
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