Queens Gazette

Poets of Queens at QED Wednesday, October 20 at 7PM


Wednesday, October 20, at 7pm–$10!

Tickets:

qedastoria.com/products/poets-of-queens

Facebook:

www.facebook.com/events/1516234735423910

Featuring:

Madeline Artenberg

Francisco Delgado

Anna-Isabella Dinwoodie

Nina Kossman

McCaela Prentice

Before falling for poetry, Madeline Artenberg was a press-pass-carrying-photojournalist and street theatre performer. Her work has been published in RattleMudfishThe POET, CapriceLiterature Today International Journal, Absinthe Literary Review, Skidrow Penthouse, Pudding House, SalonikaVernacular and Ducts, among other journals. She was a finalist for the Mudfish poetry prize and nominee for Best of the Net by Poets Wear Prada.

Francisco Delgado is a proud Chamoru and, through his maternal grandmother, a member of the Tonawanda Band of Seneca. He works as an Assistant Professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY), where he teaches first-year writing courses and courses on multi-ethnic American literature. His research on Native American/Indigenous literatures can be found in Memory StudiesTransmotion, and Teaching American Literature: Theory and Practice. And his creative work has recently appeared in Lost Balloon, QueensboundBULL, and is forthcoming in Newtown Literary. His chapbook of flash fiction / prose poems, Adolescence, Secondhand was published by Honeysuckle Press in 2018. He lives in Forest Hills with his wife and their son.

Anna-Isabella Dinwoodie is a writer, translator, and MFA candidate at Queens College, where she also teaches. Despite living in Brooklyn, she recently acquired a digital piano and got to go hiking in the mountains. Anna is currently interested in poetry-comics, as well as in turning a short film script about language dis/connections on a Polish train into a short film (please reach out to her if you’re interested in this and/or know anything about short films!). She is also working with Ann Cotten on a co-translation of Austrian writer Liesl Ujvary’s unsettling poetic texts, Safe + Good (1977).

Nina Kossman has published three books of poems in Russian and English, two books of short stories, several plays, and a novel. She has translated two volumes of Tsvetaeva’s poems. Her other books include Behind the Border and Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths (Oxford University Press, 2001).

McCaela Prentice (she/her) is currently living + writing in Astoria, NY. She is feverishly re-watching the X-Files. Her poetry has previously been featured in Hobart, HAD, Perhappened, and Ghost City Review. Her first chapbook, “Junk Drawer Heart”, was published with Invisible Hand Press.

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