Poets

A.M. Whalen

A.M. Whalen works as a publishing professional in Manhattan. She is also a writer, whose stories and poems concern the voices of ghosts, uncanny carnivals, and portraits of strange women. Her most recent work, Escape Velocity, appeared in collaboration with Double Blind Productions and the Bombyx Collective, as part of the CSA Performance Series at the New Hazlett Theater in Pittsburgh, PA. Originally from Pittsburgh, she currently lives in New York with her wife, brother-in-law, two cats, and three mice. Her familiars are a pair of surly toads named Charlie and Bianca.

Philip Good

Philip Good’s chapbook, Poets In A Box, is available from realitybeach.org. Some places his poems can be found are in Poetry, Hurricane Review published by Pensacola State College, Infiltration, An Anthology of Innovative Poetry from the Hudson River Valley and Helix Syntax, the 41st Summer Writing Program Magazine, Naropa University.

James Magee

In 1978, the incredibly prolific American artist (and now published poet) James Magee rooted himself in El Paso and Juarez on the U.S. Mexico Border. Michigan-born, Ivy League-educated to be a lawyer, gender-fluid, ex-taxi driver and off-shore roughneck, Magee made his way to the desert after time in NYC, and began creating The Hill, a massive stone work on the scale of Stonehenge, his on-going opus of the last four decades. He also created large metal collages, ornately framed, which he “titled” with remarkable poems. The sculptures and paintings of James Magee and Annabel Livermore (and more recently, Horace Mayfield) have been presented in major exhibitions across the United States, Mexico and Europe. Magee’s The Hill is quickly becoming an art aficionado’s destination, except visits are rare and managed by The Cornudas Foundation. The Smithsonian recently purchased Magee’s archives. A remarkable performer, James Magee traveled the country, performing his “Titles” (aka, poems) in collaboration with avant-garde classical musicians, and The Hill inspired Joan Jeanrenaud, founding cellist of the Kronos Quartet, to compose the concert “Desert Boy on a Stick”, which the quartet performed in concert with Magee in Houston. Letters to Goya: Poems, Titles and Letters to the Dead, is Magee’s first general trade publication.

Cindy Tran

Cindy Tran co-hosts the East Village Poetry Salon. A recipient of fellowships from Poets House, The Loft Literary Center, and Brooklyn Poets, her work appears in AAWW’s The Margins, Nice Cage Magazine, and Copper Nickel, which gave her an Editor’s Prize. Find her online at www.cindymtran.com.

Jimena Lucero

Jimena Lucero is a poet, artist, and actor from Queens. She was a Pink Door fellow and you can find her writing in EOAGH, Colorbloq.org, and more. She is currently working on her first poetry manuscript.

M. Elizabeth Scott

M. Elizabeth Scott is a poet and esotericist based in New York. She is the co-founder of arts collective Cixous72 and its derivative imprint, 72 Press.

Rachel Rabbit White

Rachel Rabbit White is a poet and essayist who lives in Brooklyn. Her chapbook Poetry is so Lesbian was just released during the New York Art Book Fair and her first full length collection, Porn Carnival will be released by Wonder this Fall. In this work, hedonism and materialist critique join in an abject orgy of labor confessionals, group texts, and criminality, they are poems turned on to queer pleasure and displeasure, indulgence and raison d’être. She is a Sagittarius sun, moon in Cancer and a Scorpio rising.

George Emilio Sanchez

George Emilio Sanchez is a writer, performance artist and social justice activist.  He is currently developing a new solo performance work titled, “XIV” that melds his autobiography with a landmark California court case in 1946 regarding the constitutionality of segregated schools.  “XIV” will premiere in June 2019 at Dixon Place. He is also a Social Practice Artist-in-Resident at Abrons Arts Center. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to Peru and two fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Gordon Henry

An Anishinabe poet and novelist, Gordon Henry, Jr. is an enrolled member of the White Earth Chippewa Tribe of Minnesota. His poetry has been published in anthologies such as Songs From This Earth On Turtle’s Back: Contemporary American Indian Poetry (1983) and Returning the Gift: Poetry and Prose from the First Native American Writers(1994). His novel The Light People (1994) was awarded The American Book Award in 1995. He has also co-authored the textbook The Ojibway (2004), to which he contributed a number of essays on Native American culture. Currently, Henry serves as the director of the creative writing program. He teaches courses in American literature, creative writing, and American Indian literature.

Philip Metres

Philip Metres is the author of ten books, including Shrapnel Maps (forthcoming 2020), The Sound of Listening (essays, 2018), Sand Opera (poems, 2015), Pictures at an Exhibition (poems, 2016), I Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems of Arseny Tarkovsky (translations 2015), and others. His work has garnered a Lannan fellowship, two NEAs, six Ohio Arts Council Grants, the Hunt Prize, the Beatrice Hawley Award, two Arab American Book Awards, and the Cleveland Arts Prize. He is professor of English and director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at John Carroll University.http://www.philipmetres.com

Erika Meitner

Erika Meitner is the author of five books of poems, including Ideal Cities (Harper Perennial, 2010)—a 2009 National Poetry Series winner; Copia (BOA Editions, 2014); and Holy Moly Carry Me (BOA Editions, 2018), winner of the 2018 National Jewish Book Award in poetry and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her poems have been published in Best American Poetry, The New York Times Magazine, Tin House, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Believer, and elsewhere. Meitner is currently an associate professor of English and the creative writing programs director at Virginia Tech.