January 27 at 7pm at The Delancey.
Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a poet and visual artist. Her most recent collection of poetry, Lighting the Shadow (Four Way Books),
was published in 2015. Her visual art exhibit, American Stanzas: 2006 - 2016, is currently featured at Poets House.
She lives in Brooklyn.
Ailish Hopper
Ailish Hopper is the author of Dark~Sky Society (2014), runner up for the New Issues prize, and the chapbook Bird in the Head (2005), winner of the Center for Book Arts Prize. Her work has appeared in APR, Harvard Review Online, Ploughshares, Poetry, and other places. In addition to page poetry, she performed with the poetry band Heroes are Gang Leaders, and her essays appeared in Boston Review, The Volta, and the anthology, A Sense of Regard: Essays on Poetry and Race, as well as other places. She has received support from the MacDowell Colony, Maryland State Arts Council, and Yaddo. She lives in Baltimore.
Meghan Privitello
Meghan Privitello is the author of A New Language for Falling out of Love (YesYes Books, 2015) and Notes on the End of the World, winner of the Black River Chapbook Competition (Black Lawrence Press, 2016). Poems have appeared in Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, A Public Space, Best New Poets, Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next Generation, & elsewhere. She is the recipient of a NJ State Council of the Arts Fellowship in Poetry.
Camille Rankine
Camille Rankine's first full-length collection of poetry, Incorrect Merciful Impulses was published by Copper Canyon Press in January 2016. She is also the author of the chapbook Slow Dance with Trip Wire, selected by Cornelius Eady for the Poetry Society of America's 2010 New York Chapbook Fellowship. The recipient of a 2010 "Discovery"/Boston Review Poetry Prize and a finalist for The Poetry Foundation's 2014 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship, she was featured as an emerging poet in the fall 2010 issue of American Poet and the April 2011 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including American Poet, The Baffler, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Indiana Review, Narrative, Paper Darts, A Public Space and Tin House. Camille earned her BA from Harvard University, and her MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the MacDowell Colony and was named an Honorary Cave Canem fellow in 2012. She serves on the Executive Committee of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and the Board of Trustees of The Poetry Project, and co-chairs the Brooklyn Book Festival Poetry Committee. She is a visiting professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst's MFA for Poets and Writers, and lives in New York City.
Terese Svoboda
Professor Harriman's Steam Air-Ship, Terese Svoboda's seventh book of poetry, was recently published by Eyewear. When The Next Big War Blows Down The Valley: Selected and New containing poems from her first five books, appeared in 2015. She has won a Guggenheim, three NYFA grants and residencies at Bellagio, Yaddo, and Hawthornden.
Ocean Vuong
Ocean Vuong is the author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Copper Canyon Press, 2016), winner of the 2016 Whiting Award. A Ruth Lilly fellow from the Poetry Foundation, he has received honors from The Civitella Ranieri Foundation, The Elizabeth George Foundation, The Academy of American Poets, Narrative magazine, and a Pushcart Prize. His writings have been featured in the Kenyon Review, The Nation, New Republic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Poetry, and American Poetry Review, which awarded him the Stanley Kunitz Prize for Younger Poets. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, he lives in New York City.
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