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Award-winning poetry by established and emerging poets throughout the summer.
Jiwon Choi is a poet who struggles to identify and name emotions that remain unnamed and unrevealed from childhood experiences and traumas in order to become the fully actualized human she knows she can be. Choi is the author of One Daughter is Worth Ten Sons and I Used To Be Korean and her third poetry collection, A Temporary Dwelling, was published this June 2024. She started her community garden’s first poetry reading series, Poets Read in the Garden, to support local writers during the early Covid years. She is also Co-editor at Hanging Loose Press.
Joan Larkin’s sixth book of poems is Old Stranger, just out from Alice James Books. Her previous work includes Blue Hanuman; My Body: New and Selected Poems, which received the Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award; and Lambda Literary Award winner Cold River. With Jaime Manrique, Larkin translated Sor Juana’s Love Poems, a bilingual edition of Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz's poetry. Her prose works include If You Want What We Have: Sponsorship Meditations and Glad Day: Daily Meditations for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender People. A lifelong teacher, she has served on the faculties of Brooklyn College, Sarah Lawrence College, and Smith College, among others. Larkin has been awarded fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the NEA, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She received the 2011 Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.
Alicia Ostriker has published 19 collections of poetry, been twice nominated for the National Book Award, and has twice received the National Jewish Book Award for Poetry, among other honors. As a critic she is the author of the now-classic Stealing the Language: the Emergence of Women's Poetry in America, and other books on poetry and on the Bible. Her most recent collections of poems are Waiting for the Light and The Volcano and After: Selected and New Poems 2002-2019. She was New York State Poet Laureate (2018-2021), and a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets (2015-2020). She was born in Brooklyn, and now lives on the Upper West Side of what the Lenape people and Walt Whitman called Manahatta.
Sandra Simonds is the author of eight books of poetry, including Triptychs (Wave Books, 2022), a New York Times pick. She was awarded the Vermont Book Award in fiction for her debut novel, Assia (Noemi Press, 2023).
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John Deming is author of the poetry book Headline News (Indolent Books 2018). His work has been featured in Boston Review, New Orleans Review, Fence, and other publications. He lives in New York City, where he teaches at LIM College and curates KGB Monday Night Poetry.