Poets Jordan Franklin, Caroline Hagood, Paula Cisewski, Jiwon Choi, and Matthew Daddona will embark on a candid exploration of how we embody our own forms of writing, whether we’re engaged in poetry, fiction, memoir, biography, etc. we can’t help but go beyond the borders of genre to create work that endeavors to fully capture the story of who we are. This event will include a tarot card reading by Paula Cisewski.
Details:
Date: Tuesday, September 16th
Time: 6:30PM
Place: Thayer, 99 Avenue B, NYC (between 6th & 7th Streets)
Wheelchair accessible.
Meet the Poets:
Jiwon Choi is a poet, early childhood teacher, and urban gardener. She is the author of One Daughter is Worth Ten Sons and I Used To Be Korean. Choi’s third poetry collection, A Temporary Dwelling was published by Spuyten Duyvil in 2024. She started her community garden’s first poetry reading series, Poets Read in the Garden, to support local writers.
Paula Cisewski’s newest collection, The Becoming Game, is newly released from Hanging Loose Press. She is also the author of Ceremonies for No Repair, Quitter (Diode Editions Book Prize winner), The Threatened Everything, Ghost Fargo (Nightboat Poetry Prize winner, selected by Franz Wright), Upon Arrival, and several chapbooks. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies from organizations including the Jerome Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, and the Oberholtzer Foundation and serves as co-founder, co-publisher, and co-editor of Beauty School Editions.
Matthew Daddona is the author of the novel The Longitude of Grief and the poetry collection House of Sound. His fiction, poetry, and nonfiction have appeared in publications like The New York Times, Newsday, Tin House, Electric Literature, Prairie Schooner, Grammy.com, and The Rumpus. A full-time ghostwriter, he also spends time shucking oysters and volunteering as a firefighter.
Jordan Franklin hails from Brooklyn, NY. She received her MFA from Stony Brook Southampton and is a doctoral candidate at Binghamton University. She is the author of the poetry collection, when the signals come home (Switchback Books), and the chapbook, boys in the electric age (Tolsun Books). Her work has appeared in Breadcrumbs, Frontier, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, the Southampton Review, Torch Literary Arts, and elsewhere. She is the winner of the 2017 James Hearst Poetry Prize, the 2020 Gatewood Prize, and the 2024 AWP Intro Journals Project Award.
