A not-to-be-missed glimpse into the most exciting new poetry in New York City as the 2015 Poets House Emerging Poets Fellows: Aziza Barnes, Rio Cortez, Ricardo Hernandez, Esther Lin, Yanyi Luo, Andriniki Mattis, Vikas K. Menon, Timothy Ree, Paul Tran and Aldrin Valdez read from their work.
The Emerging Poets Fellowship, now in its fourth year, assists emerging poets by providing excellent poetry writing instruction, mentorship, and access to Poets House’s world class poetry resources and prog...
A not-to-be-missed glimpse into the most exciting new poetry in New York City as the 2015 Poets House Emerging Poets Fellows: Aziza Barnes, Rio Cortez, Ricardo Hernandez, Esther Lin, Yanyi Luo, Andriniki Mattis, Vikas K. Menon, Timothy Ree, Paul Tran and Aldrin Valdez read from their work.
The Emerging Poets Fellowship, now in its fourth year, assists emerging poets by providing excellent poetry writing instruction, mentorship, and access to Poets House’s world class poetry resources and programming. Hosted by 2015 Emerging Poets Fellowship workshop leader Rachel Eliza Griffiths.
http://www.poetshouse.org/programs-and-events/readings-and-conversations/2015-emerging-poets-fellowship-reading
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AZIZA BARNES is blk & alive. Born in Los Angeles, she currently lives in Bedstuy, New York. Her first chapbook, me Aunt Jemima and the nailgun, was the first winner of the Exploding Pinecone Prize and published from Button Poetry. You can find her work in PANK, pluck!, Muzzle, Callaloo, Union Station, and other journals. She is a poetry & non-fiction editor at Kinfolks Quarterly, a Callaloo fellow and graduate from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is a member of The Dance Cartel & the divine fabrics collective. She loves a good suit & anything to do with Motown.
RIO CORTEZ lives in New York City. She is a Pushcart nominee and graduate of the MFA program at NYU. She has received fellowships from Cave Canem and Canto Mundo Foundations. She was a recipient of the Sarah Lawrence College Lucy Grealy Prize in Poetry and the 2012 Poets & Writers Amy Award. Other poems can be found at Prairie Schooner, Sugar House Review, Huizache Magazine, Chrorus: A Mixtape,and elsewhere.
RICARDO HERNANDEZ is a graduate of the City University of New York. In 2014, he was named an Emerging LGBT Voice in poetry by Lambda Literary. He lives in Queens.
ESTHER LIN received a Queens Council on the Arts fellowship in 2015 and completed her MFA at Columbia University. She teaches in the English Department at Queens College, CUNY.
YANYI LUO is a Brooklyn-based poet and engineer. She is working on her first manuscript and a translation of her father's poetry. Her work most recently appeared in [PANK].
ANDRINIKI MATTIS is a poet from and living in Brooklyn who recently completed a degree in Political and Poetic Resistance. Currently they are working on their first book, Meditations on the Black Body. They write about the analysis of oppressive structures such as institutional racism, neocolonialism, and anti-blackness.
VIKAS K. MENON is a poet, playwright and songwriter. His poems have been featured in numerous publications, including Indivisible: An Anthology of South Asian American Poetry and The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry. He is co-writer of the augmented reality comic book, Priya’s Shakti ( www.priyashakti.com), which was awarded a 2014 Tribeca Film Institute New Media Fund grant and support from the Ford Foundation. His plays have received readings at or been produced by Pratidhwani Theatre, Ruffled Feathers Theater Company, Ingenue Theatre and the Classical Theatre of Harlem. He was a Keynote Speaker at Canto Mundo 2011 and is a board member of Kundiman, the first organization of its kind dedicated to supporting Asian-American poetry. He received his M.F.A (Poetry) from Brooklyn College and his M.A. in Literature from St. Louis University.
TIMOTHY REE lives in Brooklyn, New York, where he teaches literature and writing at a public high school. He holds a BA in English from Wheaton College (IL) and an M.Div from Yale University, and is currently at work on his first manuscript.
PAUL TRAN is a Vietnamese American historian and poet living in Brooklyn, NY. He won "Best Poet" and "Pushing the Art Forward" at the 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational, as well as awards and fellowships from Kundiman, the VONA Voices Writing Workshop, and the Asian American Literary Arts & Performance Festival. His poems appears in CURA: A Literary Magazine for Art & Activism, Nepantla: A Journal for Queer Poets of Color, and RHINO, which selected him for the 2015 Editor's Prize. He currently works at New York University and coaches the Barnard/Columbia University slam team. Visit him at iampaultran.com
ALDRIN VALDEZ is a painter-poet who grew up in Manila and Long Island. They studied at Pratt Institute and the School of Visual Arts and were a 2011-12 Queer/Art/Mentorship fellow. Together with artists Ted Kerr and Bridget de Gersigny, Aldrin helps organize Foundational Sharing, a series of home-based salons bringing together influences, texts, performances, readings, and installations - produced and enacted by the queer and not, the sensitive, the wise the foolish, the living and the dead.