May day poetry reading
Please join us for our 4th Annual Poetry Reading
Saturday, May 1 at 4 p.m.
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Elisabeth Frost
Elisabeth Frost’s books include All of Us: Poems (White Pine Press), Bindle (in collaboration with artist Dianne Kornberg, Ricochet Editions), and The Feminist Avant-Garde in American Poetry (Iowa). She is Professor of English and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Fordham University, where she edits the Poets Out Loud Prize book series from Fordham Press.
Mahogany L. Browne
Mahogany L. Browne is a writer, organizer & educator. Executive Director of Bowery Poetry Club & Artistic Director of Urban Word NYC & Poetry Coordinator at St. Francis College. Browne has received fellowships from Agnes Gund, Air Serenbe, Cave Canem, Poets House, Mellon Research & Rauschenberg. She is the author of most recent works: Chlorine Sky, Woke: A Young Poets Call to Justice, Woke Baby, & Black Girl Magic. She lives in Brooklyn, NY. Photo credit to Jennie Bergqvist & Heath Antonio
Faisal Mohyuddin
Faisal Mohyuddin is the author of The Displaced Children of Displaced Children (Eyewear Publishing, 2018) and the chapbook The Riddle of Longing (Backbone Press, 2017). The recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award, Prairie Schooner‘s Edward Stanley Award, and a Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, he teaches English at Highland Park High School in suburban Chicago and at the School of Professional Studies at Northwestern University; he also serves as an educator adviser to the global-not-for-profit Narrative 4. He lives in Oak Park, Illinois. www.faisalmohyuddin.
Elizabeth Cohen
Elizabeth Cohen is a professor of English and creative writing at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. Her work has appeared in River Styx, Black Renaissance Noire, Yale Review, Northwest Review, Exquisite Corpse, Yellow Medicine Review, and other literary publications, as well as in anthologies such as Walk on the Wild Side: Poets Write About Cities. She is the author of an award-winning memoir and book of short stories, as well as four books of poetry, including, most recently, The Patron Saint of Cauliflower. Her chapbook, Wonder Electric will be published by Kelsay Books/Alabaster Leaves this October
