Poetry Electric: Words Smashing Walls – Mar 10

Leah Kogen-Elimeliah originally from Moscow, is a poet & writer based in New York. An Adjunct Assistant Professor at The City College of New York & John Jay College, Leah is also the founder & director of WordShedNYC Reading Series & an Editorial Associate for Fiction literary magazine. She has collaborated on various poetry/visual/dance projects with independent artists, experimenting with cross genres, multimedia & poetry. She’s performed her work at Howl! Arts, La Mama Experimental Theatre, The Red Stage organized by Creative Time, The NYC Poetry Festival, The Higher Ground Arts Festival, LatchKey Gallery, The Trops & more, & was selected as a Public Humanities/Arts Graduate Fellow for the Zip Code Memory Project supported by Columbia, CCNY, NYU, Yale & the Social Science & Humanities Research Council. She is a mentor with Girls Write Now, a nationally award winning leader in arts education writing and mentoring organization. Currently Leah is crafting her debut poetry collection, working on an art project “Notes from Daughters” & a one woman show. Her writing focuses on identity, language, immigration, intergenerational trauma, sexuality and culture. 

 

Rick Whitaker is author of An Honest Ghost, a novel made entirely of discrete sentences recycled unedited from other books. He directs Everybody Sing, a no-audition choir, and produces concerts at Columbia University.

 

 

 

 

David Mills‘ four published collections are The Sudden Country, The Dream Detective, After Mistic, and Boneyarn—which is the book of poems about slavery in New York City, and winner of the North American Book Award. He holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College. He has been anthologized in Ploughshares, Fence, Jubilat, and elsewhere. Mills was awarded fellowships and grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Lannan Foundation, and the Schomburg Center, and others. He resided in Langston Hughes’ landmark Harlem home for three years and wrote the audio script for Deborah Willis’ “Reflections in Black:100 Years of Black Photography” exhibit at the Whitney Museum.
On our way!!!

Jane LeCroy serves the Poetry Gods as a featured character in the Poetry Brothel NYC. She is a teaching-artist bringing love of poetry to students and publishing their work through various programs like Uptown Stories. She sets her poetry to music in her bands: Ω▽(Ohmslice), the experimental modular synth project, and The Icebergs, an avant-pop band of cello and drums. Her records are streaming everywhere. Three Rooms Press published her multimedia book of lyrical poems, “Signature Play.” Pink Trees press JUST published a new collection of her poetry, “Spellbook of Ordinary Mistakes.” 

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