In-Person | Thursday | January 9 | 7-9pm
J. Mae Barizo, Dorothea Lasky, Maggie Millner, and Estha Weiner read from their highly acclaimed books in celebration of the 29th Poets House Showcase Exhibition. This event is presented with generous support from the Battery Park City Authority.
J. Mae Barizo reads from Tender Machines (Tupelo Press, 2023), Dorothea Lasky reads from The Shining (Wave Books, 2023), Maggie Millner reads from Couplets (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023), and Estha Weiner reads from This Insubstantial Pageant (Broadstone Books, 2022).
Readings in Kray Hall with a reception to follow.
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About the poets:
J. Mae Barizo is a poet, essayist, librettist and multidisciplinary artist. She is the author of two books of poetry, Tender Machines and The Cumulus Effect (Four Way Books). A finalist for the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize and the 2023 Megaphone Prize, her work has been anthologized by W.W. Norton, Atelier Editions and Harvard University Press. Recent writing appears in Poetry, Ploughshares, Esquire, Los Angeles Review of Books, Paris Review Daily, Boston Review, BookForum, among others. As a librettist, she is the inaugural recipient of Opera America’s IDEA residency, given to artists who have the potential to shape the future of opera. She is on the MFA Faculty and is the Chair of the undergraduate Creative Writing program at The New School.
Dorothea Lasky is the author of six books of poetry and prose, including the forthcoming MEMORY and a book about Sappho. She is also the author of several chapbooks, including Snakes (Tungsten Press) and Poetry is Not a Project (Ugly Duckling Presse). Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, and Boston Review, among other places. She is the co-editor of Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry (McSweeney’s) and is a Bagley Wright Lecturer on Poetry at Columbia University. She holds a doctorate in creativity and education from the University of Pennsylvania and has been educated at Harvard University, the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Washington University.
Maggie Millner is the author of Couplets, one of The Atlantic’s top 10 books of 2023 and a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in Poetry and the Lambda Literary Prize in Lesbian Poetry. She is a Lecturer at Yale and a Senior Editor at The Yale Review.
Estha Weiner is the author of This Insubstantial Pageant (Broadstone Books, 2022), at the last minute (Salmon Poetry), In the Weather of the World (Salmon Poetry), Transfiguration Begins at Home (Tiger Bark Press), and The Mistress Manuscript (Asheville Book Works). Winner of a Paterson Poetry Prize, speaker on Shakespeare for NY Council for the Humanities, and visiting scholar at Shakespeare Institute, Stratford, England, Estha is founding director of Sarah Lawrence College NY Alumni Writers Nights. She is a professor at City College of N.Y. Dept. of English and Sarah Lawrence Writing Institute, and serves or has served on the Poetry/Writing faculties of The Frost Place, Hudson Valley Writers Center, Stone Coast Writers Conference, Poets and Writers, Poets House, and The Writers Voice.