The Poetry Project
St. Mark’s Church
131 East 10th Street (@ 2nd Ave.)
New York, NY 10003

Talk Series: Vahni Capoldeo & Vivek Narayanan

MONDAY MAY 16 / 8PM

Join us for an evening of conversation, analysis, readings, and provocations from two emerging writers, at least partially in discussion of recent forms of reception and receptivity.

Vahni Capildeo writes both poetry and prose. Her fourth book, Dark & Unaccustomed Words, is due out this year. She is a Lecturer at Kingston University (UK) and Contributing Editor for the Caribbean Review of Books.

Vivek Narayanan’s first book, Universal Beach, will be published by ingirumimusnocteetconsumimurigni this spring; his second, Mr. Subramanian, is forthcoming. Narayanan is co-editor of Almost Island, and was a coordinator of the fellowship network at Sarai. His work appears in The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poetry and Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond. He lives in Delhi.


Paula Cisewksi & Ronaldo V. Wilson
WEDNESDAY MAY 18 / 8PM 

Paula Cisewski’s second collection, Ghost Fargo, was selected by Franz Wright for the Nightboat Poetry Prize and published in 2010. She is also the author of Upon Arrival (Black Ocean, 2006) and of three chapbooks: How Birds Work (Fuori Editions, 2002), Or Else What Asked the Flame (w/Mathias Svalina, Scantily Clad e-chap, 2008), and Two Museums (MaCaHu Press 2009).  She lives in Minneapolis.

Ronaldo V. Wilson is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (University of Pittsburgh, 2008), winner of the 2007 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and Poems of the Black Object (Futurepoem Books, 2009), winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry in 2010. Co-founder of the Black Took Collective, Wilson is currently a full time Visiting Assistant Professor at Mount Holyoke College, and recent guest faculty at The Millay Colony, The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, and the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa University.

The Recluse #7 Reading
FRIDAY MAY 20 / 10PM 

A reading to celebrate the launch of The Recluse #7 (The Poetry Project’s annual literary magazine). This issue includes work by Ted Greenwald, Susan Landers, Jesse Seldess, Tom Savage, Micah Ballard, Cedar Sigo, Diana Hamilton, Daniel Borzutzky, Brendan Lorber, Betsy Fagin, Ron Padgett and Erica Hunt. Poets to read at the event include Daniel Borzutzky, Diana Hamilton, Tom Savage, Susan Landers, Brendan Lorber, Jesse Seldess and more to be announced soon! Cover art by KB Jones.