JAN 17 | 7:00pm at McNally Jackson Seaport
Brave, Unbodied Scheme featuring Alan Gilbert, CAConrad, Eduardo Martínez-Leyva, Precious Okoyomon, and Zoe Brezsny.
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Join us at the McNally Jackson Seaport, manhattan’s own coastal refuge, as we present an evening featuring a range of brilliant minds from NYC's poetry scene.
The title for this new monthly series comes from Herman Melville’s poem “Art”. Poetry, wine, and the sea have always been inextricably intertwined. This reading series seeks to highlight poets from all over the city, and give them a backdrop of McNally Jackson’s bar to read their new work. Join us to hear poems, drink wine, and enjoy the “pulsed life”.
This month's reading features Alan Gilbert, CAConrad, Eduardo Martínez-Leyva, Precious Okoyomon, and Zoe Brezsny.
Alan Gilbert is the author of the ongoing epic poem, The Everyday Life of Design, the revised and expanded second edition of which was published by Winter Editions in late 2024. He is also the author of a collection of essays, articles, and reviews entitled Another Future: Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight. He is Adjunct Associate Professor in the Columbia University MFA Writing Program and is the website editor for BOMB Magazine.
CAConrad has worked with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. Their latest book is Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return (Wave Books / UK Penguin 2024). They received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a PEN Josephine Miles Award, a Creative Capital grant, a Pew Fellowship, and a Lambda Award. The Book of Frank is now available in 13 different languages, and they coedited SUPPLICATION: Selected Poems of John Wieners (Wave Books). They exhibit poems as art objects with recent solo shows in Tucson, Arizona, as well as in Spain and Portugal. They teach at the Sandberg Art Institute in Amsterdam.
Eduardo Martínez-Leyva was born in El Paso, TX to Mexican immigrants. His work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, the Boston Review, the Adroit Journal, Frontier Poetry, the Hopkins Review, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. He’s received fellowships from CantoMundo, The Frost Place, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Lambda Literary Foundation, a teaching fellowship from Columbia University, where he earned his MFA, and was the writer-in-residence at St. Albans School for Boys in Washington D.C. His debut poetry collection, Cowboy Park, was selected by Amaud Jamaul Johnson for the 2024 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry and is part of The Wisconsin Poetry Series published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
Precious Okoyomon is a Nigerian-American artist, poet, and chef. They live and work in New York City.
Zoe Brezsny is the author of the chapbooks neuron waterfall (Heinzfeller Snow, 2023), Ecstasy (Topos Press, 2021), an audio cassette of poems, and brume d'amour (Wonder Press, 2024). She records a weekly guided meditation for WFMU 91.1 FM radio.