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Poetry with Nicole Callihan, Melissa Ginsburg, Nkosi Nkululeko, Grace Schulman

June 27, 2023, 6:00pm–7:30pm

Award-winning poetry by established and emerging poets throughout the summer.

Poetry reading featuring: 

Nicole Callihan's This Strange Garment was published by Terrapin Books in March 2023. Her books include SuperLoop and the poetry chapbooks: A Study in Spring (with Zoë Ryder White, 2015), The Deeply Flawed Human (2016), Downtown (2017), Aging (2018), and ELSEWHERE (with Zoë Ryder White, 2020). Her work has appeared in Tin House, Kenyon Review, Colorado Review, Conduit, The American Poetry Review, and as a Poem-a-Day selection from the Academy of American Poets. Her novella, "The Couples", was published by Mason Jar Press in summer 2019. Nicole has received fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, Ludwig Vogelstein, and Bethany Arts. A frequent collaborator with artists and composers around the world, Nicole’s work has been translated into Spanish, German, Arabic, and Russian.

Melissa Ginsburg is the author of two poetry collections, Doll Apollo (winner of the 2023 Poetry Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters), and Dear Weather Ghost; three poetry chapbooks; and the novels The House Uptown and Sunset City. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Image, Guernica, Kenyon Review, Fence, Southwest Review, and other magazines. Originally from Houston, Texas, Melissa studied poetry at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Mississippi, and serves as Associate Editor of Tupelo Quarterly. She lives in Oxford, Mississippi. 

Nkosi Nkululeko’s work is published in Chess Life Online, Ploughshares, Poem-A-Day, Poet Lore, The Offing, Oxford Poetry, The Slowdown, and more. He is the winner of Michigan Quarterly Review’s Page Davidson Clayton Prize for Emerging Poets 2018. You can find Nkosi’s Square Poems in journals like ANMLY, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and The Nation. He is anthologized in The Best American Poetry Anthology, Bettering American Vol. 3, and Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry. Nkosi is a chess, music, and poetry teacher from Harlem!

Grace Schulman is the recipient of the Frost Medal for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in American Poetry, and a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters.  Her latest of nine book of poems is Again, the Dawn: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2022. She is the author of a memoir, Strange Paradise: Portrait of a Marriage, and of an essay collection, First Loves and Other Adventures. Editor of The Poems of Marianne Moore, she is Distinguished Professor of English at Baruch College, C.U.N.Y. Among her other honors are the Aiken Taylor Award for poetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award, and five Pushcart Prizes. About her poems, Harold Bloom has written, "Grace Schulman has developed into one of the permanent poets of her generation." Schulman is former director of the Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y, 1974-84, and former poetry editor of The Nation, 1971-2006.

Hosted by Jason Schneiderman, the author of four books of poems: Hold Me Tight (2020), Primary Source (Red Hen Press 2016); Striking Surface (Ashland Poetry Press 2010); and Sublimation Point (Four Way Books 2004). He edited the anthology Queer: A Reader for Writers (Oxford University Press 2016). His poetry and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry, Poetry London, Grand Street, and The Penguin Book of the Sonnet. His awards include a Fulbright Fellowship and the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America. He is an Associate Professor of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College and teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.