Featuring Rivka Galchen, Zakia Henderson-Brown, and Chinelo Okparanta. Rivka Galchen is the author of the the novel Atmospheric Disturbances and the story collection American Innovations: Stories, both New York Times Best books of the Year. Her most recent title is the nonfiction work Little Labors (New Directions, 2016). zakia henderson-brown, a 2016 Poets House Emerging Poets fellow, has received fellowships from Fine Arts Work Center, Callaloo, and Cave Canem. Winner of the 2017 PSA Chapbook Fellowship, her chapbook What Kind of Omen Am I, selected by Cate Marvin, will be published in the spring. Chinelo Okparanta is the author of the story collection Happiness, Like Water and the novel Under the Udala Trees (Houghton Mifflin, 2015).
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| Date | Title | Location |
|---|---|---|
| The Poetry Project's 51st Annual New Year's Day Marathon | New York, NY | |
| This is the Year: Book Launch with Gloria Muñoz | St. Petersburg, FL | |
| 29th Showcase Reading: J. Mae Barizo, Dorothea Lasky, Maggie Millner, & Estha Weiner | New York, NY | |
| 29th Showcase Reading: Rio Cortez, Marilyn Hacker, Robert Wood Lynn, and John Yau | New York, NY | |
| H. G. Dierdorff & Erika Howsare | Charlottesville, VA | |
| Woodland Pattern's 31st Annual Poetry Marathon | Milwaukee, WI | |
| 29th Showcase Reading: Carolina Ebeid, Sally Wen Mao, Shane McCrae, & Evie Shockley | New York, NY | |
| Tiana Clark: Scorched Earth w/ Terrance Hayes | Brooklyn, NY |