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Award-winning poetry by established and emerging poets throughout the summer.
Sarah Gambito is the author of the poetry collections Loves You (Persea Books), Delivered (Persea Books) and Matadora (Alice James Books). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, POETRY, Harvard Review, American Poetry Review, The New Republic and other journals. She holds degrees from The University of Virginia and The Literary Arts Program at Brown University. Her honors include the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets and Writers, The Wai Look Award for Outstanding Service to the Arts from the Asian American Arts Alliance and grants and fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, The New York Foundation for the Arts and The MacDowell Colony. She is Professor of English / Director of Creative Writing at Fordham University and co-founder of Kundiman, a non-profit organization serving writers and readers of Asian American literature.
Roberto Carlos Garcia writes poetry and prose about the Afro-Latinx and Afro-Diasporic experience. His work has been published widely in places like Poetry Magazine, NACLA, Poets & Writers, The Root, and others. Garcia is a 2023 New Jersey State Council of the Arts Poetry Fellow and the author of five books. Four poetry collections: Melancolía (Cervena Barva Press, 2016), black / Maybe: An Afro Lyric (Willow Books, 2018), [Elegies] (Flower Song Press, 2020), What Can I Tell You: Selected Poems (Flower Song Press, 2022), and one essay collection, Traveling Freely, forthcoming October 2024 from Northwestern University Press. Garcia is the founder of Get Fresh Books Publishing, a literary nonprofit.
Joseph O. Legaspi is the author of the collections Amphibian (forthcoming, Northwestern University Press), Threshold and Imago (both from CavanKerry Press); and the chapbooks Postcards (Ghost Bird Press), Aviary, Bestiary (Organic Weapon Arts), and Subways (Thrush Press). He works at Columbia University, teaches at Fordham University, and resides in Queens, New York.
Maya Phillips is the author of NERD: Adventures in Fandom From This Universe to the Multiverse (Atria Books, 2022), and the poetry collection Erou (Four Way Books, 2019), which was a finalist for the PEN Open Book Award and winner of the 2019 Balcones Poetry Prize and the 2020 Poetry by the Sea book award. Her poetry has appeared in American Literary Review, At Length, The Baffler, BOAAT, Ghost Proposal, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Rumpus, Vinyl, The Gettysburg Review, The Missouri Review, The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine, among others. She is the recipient of a Hodder Grant from Princeton’s Lewis Center for the Arts and the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. Maya is a full-time arts critic at the Times, where she writes about theater, movies, TV, books, and nerd culture.
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