Join All Ways Writing Collective for a free, open-to-the-public poetry reading at The Angel Nyack, located upstairs at 18 South Broadway, Nyack, NY. The evening will feature 5 community readers, followed by guest authors, a Q&A, and book signings. Community readers include Kelly Jo Lillian, Kirsten Meehan, Kate MacLaughlin, Early ‘Owen’ Minoza, and Cherish Pratt.
Dawn Lundy Martin is an American poet and essayist. She is the author of four books of poems: Good Stock Strange Blood , winner of the 2019 Kingsley Tufts Award for Poetry; Life in a Box is a Pretty Life , which won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry; DISCIPLINE , A Gathering of Matter / A Matter of Gathering , and three limited edition chapbooks. Her nonfiction can be found in n+1 , The New Yorker , Ploughshares , The Believer , and Best American Essays 2019 . Martin is the Toi Derricotte Endowed Chair of African American Poetry at the University of Pittsburgh and Director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics.
Matthew Gellman’s first book, Beforelight, was selected by Tina Chang as the winner of BOA Editions, Ltd.’s A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. He is also the author of The Understudy, forthcoming with Four Way Books in 2027, as well as the chapbook Night Logic, selected by Denise Duhamel as the winner of Tupelo Press’s 2021 Snowbound Chapbook Award. Matthew has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Brooklyn Poets, Adroit’s Djanikian Scholars Program, the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and elsewhere. His poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, Indiana Review, Ninth Letter, Lambda Literary’s Poetry Spotlight and other publications. He is currently a PhD candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California.
This reading is made possible by generous sponsorship from ArtsWestchester’s Arts Alive Grant, Poets & Writers, and the Carson McCullers Center for Writers & Musicians.
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