Poetry
Alaska Language Odyssey
By Bob HolmanFounder of the Bowery Poetry Club and the author of 17 poetry collections (print/audio/video), most recently The Cutouts (Matisse) (PeKaBoo Press) and Sing This One Back To Me (Coffee House Press), Bob Holman has taught at Princeton, Columbia, NYU, Bard, and The New School. As the original Slam Master and a director at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, creator of the world's first spoken word poetry record label, Mouth Almighty/Mercury, and the Artistic Director of the Bowery Poetry Club, Holman has played a central role in the spoken word, slam and digital poetry movements of the last several decades, work that continues with the founding of Bowery Poetry Studios, where he hosts the poetry podcast "Mouth Almighty." A co-founder and co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, Holman's study of hip-hop and West African oral traditions led to his current work with endangered languages. His film, "Language Matters with Bob Holman," winner of the Berkeley Film Festival's Documentary of the Year award, was produced by David Grubin and aired nationally on PBS.
Alaska Odyssey Essay
By Bob HolmanRight now it is 10am and I am sitting alone in the Kotzebue Heritage Center Meeting Room, letting the workshop that will fill this space tonight spill out of the walls and exhibits. The possibilities!
from VANTABLACK
By Joey De JesusJoey De Jesus co-edits poetry at Apogee Journal, is a recipient of the 2017 NYFA/NYSCA Fellowship in Poetry and lives in Queens. Poems appear in several venues in print, online, and have been installed in The New Museum and Artists Space in New York City.
two poems for bitches
By Mel ElbergMel Elberg is a queer poet interested in speculative feminisms and the effect of writing on our experience of time.
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By Elisa GabbertElisa Gabbert is a poet and essayist and the author of three collections: L’Heure Bleue, or the Judy Poems (Black Ocean, 2016), The Self Unstable (Black Ocean, 2013), and The French Exit (Birds LLC, 2010). She is currently writing a book about disasters, forthcoming from FSG Originals. She lives in Denver.
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By Adam DeGraffAdam DeGraff's most recent book is Wherewithal, hot off Subpress. He currently teaches at LaGuardia (and soon at St. Francis Prep), hosts the Kith & Kin reading series in Queens NY with Tyler Burba, and, with Genevieve George, looks after two daughters in Sunnyside NY. Adam also makes Suessian floral arrangements out of pipe-cleaners with his daughters, or at least he is today.
