Underland Gallery Reading Series: #5 May 18, 2023
New York Writers Workshop @ Underland Gallery Reading Series, #5 -- Thursday, May 18, 2023 / 6:00 PM
Terence Degnan is the author of three books, including his most recent, I Can Wonder Anything. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.
Jen Fitzgerald’s essays, poetry, and photography has been featured widely, over the past decade, in venues such as PBS Newshour, Tin House, Boston Review, NER, Colorado Review among others. Her first collection of poetry, The Art of Work, was published by Noemi Press in September of 2016. As a community activist, she has hosted free-for-the-community Grassroots Workshops, created spaces for the literary community to organize outside of academia and around issues of representation in publishing as Count Director for The VIDA Count and with the National Writer’s Union to organize at AWP, as well as starting the campaign for Staten Island to name its first ever Poet Laureate. She works with Prison Writes to bring writing & literacy workshops to incarcerated youth and adults on Rikers Island and other jails/institutions around NYC. Her new work seeks to bridge the connective gaps left in language while engaging larger concepts of solidarity, singularity, and ascension.
Joanna Solfrian’s 2009 collection, Visible Heavens, received the Wick First Book Poetry Prize, judged by Naomi Shihab Nye. Her second collection, The Mud Room, came out in 2020 from MadHat Press. In March of 2021, Finishing Line Press published a chapbook of ghazals called The Second Perfect Number. Her poems have appeared in journals such as The Harvard Review, Boulevard, Image, Spoon River Poetry Review, Margie, Rattapallax, The Southern Review, and Pleiades. Solfrian has taught writing at the University of Hartford, Souther CT State University, and has guest-lectured in various high school, undergraduate, and graduate creative writing programs. Currently, she lives and works in New York City.
Hosted by:
Tim Tomlinson, co-founder and director of New York Writers Workshop. Tims books are Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse (chapbook), Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire, the story collection This Is Not Happening to You, and, forthcoming in 2023, Listening to Fish: meditations from the wet world.