The inaugural event, featuring poets Ruth Lepson, Keith Jones, Daniel Bouchard, Fanny Howe, Roland Pease, Michael Franco, Patrick Pritchett, Ed Barrett.
Andrea Cohen is the author of six poetry collections, including, most recently Nightshade and Unfathoming.
A 2019-2020 Hilles Bush Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Joan Naviyuk Kane was a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry.
David Thorburn has been a teacher of literature for 57 years, 46 of them at MIT where he is Professor of Literature and Comparative Media and Director Emeritus of the MIT Communications Forum. Knots is his first book of poetry.
Poems on family, identity, and homeland—where these six Muslim women of MIT come from and how that shaped who they are now.
Charles North's New and Selected Poems What It Is Like headed NPR’s Best Poetry Books of the Year. Among many other awards, he has received two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and a Poets Foundation Award.
L.S. McKee is a lecturer in WRAP at MIT. Her poetry has appeared in Narrative, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Massachusetts Review, Best New Poets, Cincinnati Review, The Georgia Review, Copper Nickel, and elsewhere.
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram is the author of Travesty Generator, a book of computational poetry that received the Poetry Society of America’s 2020 Anna Rabinowitz prize for interdisciplinary work and longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry.
Allison Adair’s debut collection was named a New York Times "New and Noteworthy" book. Sandra Lim’s latest book of poetry is a Massachusetts Book Award “must read.”
Mosteirin's reading will include poems from Experiment 116, and Cayley will be launching the new, expanded edition of Image Generation published by Counterpath.
Nicol’s translation of One Hundred Visions of War by Julien Vocance, published in November 2022, has been called “an essential addition to the history of modernist poetry.”
Chen and Oliva will present digital, visual poems from their book Seedlings_: Walk in Time, a book written through their interactions with programs they have written.
Keith Jones is the author of Echo’s Errand and the poetry chapbooks. Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno, poet, biographer and translator, is the author of more than two dozen books including biographies of Paul Bowles and E.E. Cummings.
Katy Ilonka Gero is a writer and computer scientist. Katherine Yang is an artist and programmer building poetic tools and handmade websites.
Chloe Garcia Roberts is the author of Fire Eater: A Translator's Theology and The Reveal, published as part of Noemi Press’s Akrilika Series for innovative Latino writing. She works as deputy editor of Harvard Review as well as a lecturer of poetry at MIT.