ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Eva H.D. is the author of Rotten Perfect Mouth, which includes the pieces "38 Michigans," & "Bonedog" (featured in the Netflix film, I'm Thinking of Ending Things). She works in your favourite bar.
Wanda Phipps is a writer/translator/editor living in NYC. Her books include Field of Wanting: Poems of Desire and Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems. Her poetry has been translated into Ukrainian, Hungarian, Arabic, Galician and Bangla. She's received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Theater Translation Fund, and others. As a founding member of Yara Arts Group she has collaborated on numerous theatrical productions presented in Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Siberia, and at La MaMa, E.T.C. in NYC. She’s curated reading series at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church and written about the arts for Time Out New York, and Paper Magazine. Her new book Mind Honey is forthcoming from Autonomedia.
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CAConrad has been working with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. They are the author of Amanda Paradise (Wave Books, 2021). Other titles include The Book of Frank, While Standing in Line for Death, and Ecodeviance. They received a Creative Capital grant, a Pew Fellowship, a Lambda Literary Award, and a Believer Magazine Book Award. They teach at Columbia University in New York City and Sandberg Art Institute in Amsterdam.
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Gbenga Adesina, winner of the 2020 Narrative Prize, is a Nigerian writer and the author of the chapbook Painter of Water, a meditation on intimacy in the face of historical violence, published in the New Generation African Poets series by the University of Nebraska and Akashic Books. He has received fellowships and scholarships from The Fine Arts Work Center, Poets House New York, New York University (where he received his MFA), and Colgate University. His work has been published in the New York Times, Prairie Schooner, Washington Square Review, and elsewhere
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ABOUT THE FEATURED AUTHORS
Regie Cabico is a spoken word pioneer and winner of The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam. He is the first Asian American and openly queer poet to take top honors in 3 National Poetry Slams. iTelevision credits include 2 seasons of HBO's Def Poetry Jam, Tedx Talks, NPR's Snap Judgement & MTV's Free Your Mind. His work appears in over 30 anthologies including Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café, Spoken Word Revolution & The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. Mr. Cabico is the director of Capturing Fire Slam and Press, an international Queer Slam. He resides in Washington, DC, is romantically unattached and lives on top of a Trader Joes.
Check out Regie's poetry here and here.
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the author of three novels and a memoir, and the editor of five nonfiction anthologies. Her memoir, The End of San Francisco, won a Lambda Literary Award, and her anthology, Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform, was an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book. Her most recent novel, Sketchtasy, was one of NPR’s Best Books of 2018. Her next book, The Freezer Door, which Maggie Nelson describes as “a book about not belonging that left me feeling deeply less alone,” will be out from Semiotext(e) in November.
Cyrée Jarelle Johnson is a poet and librarian from Piscataway, NJ. SLINGSHOT, his first book of poetry, was the winner of the 2020 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry, and is a finalist for a 2020 CLMP Firecracker Award.
Find Cyrée online at cyreejarellejohnson.com or @cyreejarelle.
Jennifer Blowdryer is a punk icon and the author of several books including, White Trash Debutant, Modern English: A Trendy, Slang Dictionary, The Laziest Secretary, and Good Advice for Trendy Young People of All Ages. She heads The Jennifer Blowdryer Band, which can be found performing live Punk Rock shows around NYC.
She is continuing the work of her magpie great-uncle Sabine Baring-Gould in compiling these marvelous 86’d stories for antiquity.
Her other works, including Where's My Wife and Wrong Wrong Wrong, are available from prices to $300 to $6 on ABE, Alibris, and Amazon. Go Figure. Her most recent recordings are on SoundCloud as Jennifer Blowdryer, the lifelong aka she got from singing in punk band The Blowdryers in SF, '79.
Check out an excerpt of Kicked Out in Tribes Magazine Online
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about the Featured Authors
Urayoán Noel is the author of eight books of poetry—among them Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico (2015) and the forthcoming Transversal, both with the University of Arizona Press—and the critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (University of Iowa Press, 2014), which received the LASA Latino Studies Book Award and an MLA Honorable Mention. His translations include No Budu Please by Wingston González (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018)) and Architecture of Dispersed Life: Selected Poetry by Pablo de Rokha (Shearsman Books, 2018), which was a finalist for the National Translation Award. He also translated the concrete poems in Amanda Berengue’s Materia Prima (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2019), which was a finalist for the Best Translated Book Award. Originally from Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, Noel lives in the South Bronx and vlogs at wokitokiteki.com. He is an associate professor of English and Spanish and Portuguese at New York University, and also teaches “Poetry in the Expanded Field” at Stetson University’s MFA of the Americas. Noel is a former Ford Foundation and Howard Foundation fellow, and his poetry is featured in the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico’s permanent exhibit.
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Pamela Sneed is a New York-based poet, professor and performer. Her newest collection of poetry, Funeral Diva, will be released by City Lights Press in October of 2020. She is author of Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery and KONG, and has been featured in the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Time Out, Bomb and VIBE. She has appeared in Art Forum, The Huffington Post and Hyperallergic. In 2017, she was a Visiting Critic at Yale and Columbia University. She is a Visiting Professor at Columbia University’s School of the Arts for 2017/18. She is online faculty at Chicago’s School of the Art Institute teaching Human Rights and Writing Art. She has performed at the Whitney Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Poetry Project, NYU and Pratt Universities, Smack Mellon Gallery, The High Line, and was an artist-in-residence at Pratt University, Denniston Hill and Poet-Linc, Lincoln Center Education. Her previous book, Sweet Dreams, was published by Belladonna in February 2018.
Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Women’s National Book Association (WNBA) Award. Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize winner. She’s co-editor of the anthology Big Energy Poets: Ecopoetry Thinks Climate Change and the anthology series, Bettering American Poetry. King is a professor of creative writing at SUNY Nassau Community College.
Grisel Acosta is an associate professor at the City University of New York-Bronx Community College. Her first book of poetry, Things to Pack on the Way to Everywhere, is an Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize finalist and it is forthcoming from Get Fresh Books in 2021. Recent work can be found in The Baffler, Acentos Journal, Kweli Journal, Red Fez, Short Plays on Reproductive Freedom, and Celebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood: The Lauryn Hill Reader. She is a Geraldine Dodge Foundation Poet, a Macondo Fellow, and the editor of Latina Outsiders Remaking Latina Identity, an anthology that features over Latinx 30 contributors and subjects. Her work focuses on her Afro-Latinx and indigenous ancestry, queer identity, the punk and house music subcultures, her birthplace of Chicago, and the destruction of post-colonial neoliberalism.
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Click on the button below to watch the recording of our first Spotlight Series with Gabrielle Davids, Willie Perdomo, Katherine Arnoldi, and Luciann Berrios.
ABOUT THE FEATURED AUTHORS
Willie Perdomo is the author of The Crazy Bunch, winner of the 2019-2020 New York City Book Award, The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Smoking Lovely, winner of the PEN Open Book Award, and Where a Nickel Costs a Dime, a finalist for the Poetry Society of America Norma Farber First Book Award. He is also a co-editor of the BreakBeat Poetry Series anthology, LatiNext. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Poetry, The Best American Poetry 2019, and African Voices. He is currently a Lucas Arts Literary Fellow and teaches at Phillips Exeter Academy.
Buy Willie’s Books Here:
The Crazy Bunch (Penguin Poets)
LatiNext
The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon
Where a Nickel Costs a Dime
Gabrielle David is a multidisciplinary artist and the publisher of 2Leaf Press. Gabrielle became involved in the New York poetry scene during the 1990s and served as literature coordinator at the Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center in Queens throughout most of that decade. Her work with the library prompted the creation of phati’tude Literary Magazine, which eventually became a programming incentive under the Intercultural Alliance of Artists & Scholars, Inc. (IAAS), a NY-based nonprofit organization which she founded in 2000 and has served as executive director since its inception. She was the editor of Branches of the Tree of Life, (2014), and co-editor of ¡Hey Yo! Yo Soy, 40 Years of Nuyorican Street Poetry (2012). She is the author of the chapbooks Spring Has Returned and I Am Renewed (1996) and This is Me: A Collection of Poems and Things (1994). Her collection of essays, Beyond Identity: Exploring Multicultural Literature in the 21st Century, is forthcoming.
View Gabrielle’s books here:
Hey Yo! Yo Soy! 40 Years of Nuyorican Street Poetry, A Bilingual Edition
What Does it Mean to be White in America?: Breaking the White Code of Silence (A Collection of Personal Narratives)
Katherine Arnoldi Ph.D. is the author of the graphic novel The Amazing True Story of a Teenage Single Mom (Hyperion, 1998) which was named a Top Ten Book of the Year by Entertainment Weekly, and the story collection All Things Are Labor, Stories (University of Massachusetts Press, 2007), which won a Juniper Award. She is also the recipient of two New York Foundation of the Arts Awards (Fiction and Drawing), the Henfield TransAtlantic and DeJur Awards and a Fulbright to Paraguay. She met Steve Cannon on her first day in NYC in January 1987. The next day they went to see Billy Bang, then to Bullet Space and so on until sitting together, holding hands, a few days before he “left this planet.”
View Katherine’s Books Here:
The Amazing True Story of a Teenage Single Mom
All Things Are Labor (Stories)
Luciann Berrios is the author of Thunder and Sunshine in One Body, a collection of poetry published by Fly by Night Press (a subsidiary of A Gathering of the Tribes) in 2017. Her second book was released in 2018 entitled Women of Eve's Garden; this was an anthology she created, curated, contributed to and edited consisting of 10 female and non-binary poets and one visual artist. Her work was also featured in Tribes’ Word anthology, as well as the anthology Silver Tongued Devils. She runs writing workshops in middle and high schools around New York City, promoting creative writing as a way of navigating difficult experiences outside of harmful coping methods.