Celebrate World Poetry Day in Gowanus
Organized by Singapore Unbound and NYC Poets Afloat
Thursday, March 21, 6 pm to 8 pm
Principles GI Coffee House (139 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY)
Free and all are welcome.
Belt up for a rousing, whirlwind tour of psychic territories and unfamiliar geographies.
Brad Vogel, an American of Walloon background, lives and generates poetry in Gowanus, Brooklyn. The author of collections Broad Meadow Bird and Find Me in the Feral Pockets, he runs NYC Poets Afloat aboard ships in New York Harbor.
C.O. Moed grew up on the Lower East Side when it was still a tough neighborhood. Just out, It Was Her New York (Rootstock Publishing)—true stories and snapshots of undying love, old lesbians, our fellow New Yorkers, and home.
Irina Mashinski is the author of The Naked World (2022), Giornata (2022), and eleven books of poetry and essays in Russian. She is co-editor of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry and 2017 Hawthornden (Scotland) Fellow.
Jane Ormerod is an artist, poet, and founding editor of great weather for MEDIA. Born on the south coast of England, Jane is the recipient of a NYC Acker Award in publishing and lives in Hudson, NY.
Jee Leong Koh is the author of Steep Tea, named a Best Book of the Year by Financial Times, and Inspector Inspector, both from Carcanet. He runs the literary non-profit Singapore Unbound and the press Gaudy Boy.
The former Queens Borough Poet Laureate (2010-2014), Paolo Javier was born in Quezon City, Manila. His most recent book, True Account of Talking to the 7 in Sunnyside, published by Roof, was a finalist for the 2022 Big Other Book Award for Poetry.
Petr Hruška is one of the Czech Republic’s leading contemporary poets. His poetry has won a number of state and international awards, including the Czech State Award for Literature. Everything Indicates: Selected Poems is an invaluable introduction to his work for English-speaking readers.
Rob A. Mackenzie lives in Leith, Scotland. His fourth full collection, Woof! Woof! Woof!, was published in July 2023 (Salt Publishing). He runs literary publisher Blue Diode Press.
Sarah Sarai’s most recent poetry collection is Bright-Eyed (Poets Wear Prada, 2024). She was born in Long Island, raised in Los Angeles, and considers San Francisco, Seattle, and N.Y.C. home.