EventsThe New Social Environment#817
"Happy birthday to my sister who has never read a poem:" A Rail Reading curated by Courtney Bush
Featuring Bush, Jameson Fitzpatrick, Elisa Gonzalez and Jack Underwood
Wednesday, May 24, 2023 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Courtney Bush curates our 136th Wednesday Poetry Reading with Jameson Fitzpatrick, Elisa Gonzalez and Jack Underwood.
In this Talk
Jameson Fitzpatrick

Jameson Fitzpatrick is a poet and occasional critic. The author of the poetry collection Pricks in the Tapestry (Birds, LLC, 2020) and the chapbooks Mr. & (Indolent Books, 2018) and Morrisroe: Erasures (89plus/LUMA Publications, 2014), she is a 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow and teaches first-year writing at New York University.
Elisa Gonzalez

Elisa Gonzalez is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer. Her work appears in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Times Magazine, The Drift, and elsewhere. A former U.S. Fulbright fellow, she is the recipient of a 2020 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award. Her debut collection of poetry, Grand Tour (FSG), will be published in September 2023.
Jack Underwood

Jack Underwood is a poet, writer and critic. He is author of Happiness (Faber 2015) Solo for Mascha Voice (Test Centre, 2018) and A Year in the New Life (Faber 2021). His debut work of non-fiction, NOT EVEN THIS, was published by Corsair in 2021. He has collaborated widely with composers and artists, and his work has been published internationally and in translation. He is co-presenter and curator of the Faber Poetry Podcast and is a senior lecturer in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College.
Courtney Bush

Poet and filmmaker Courtney Bush is from the Mississippi Gulf Coast. She lives and works as a nanny in New York. She is the author of Isn’t This Nice?, Every Book Is About The Same Thing, and I Love Information, a 2022 National Poetry Series selection, forthcoming in 2023 from Milkweed Editions. Her films, made with collaborators Jake Goicoechea and Will Carington, have been screened at festivals internationally.
We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨