Join us at the McNally Jackson Seaport bar, 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 Leah Umansky, Anton Yakovlev, Jimin Seo, Topaz Winters, and Joan Kwon Glass
Leah Umansky is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently, Of Tyrant (Word Works Books 2024.) She earned her MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and has curated and hosted the Couplet Reading Series in NYC since 2011. She is the creator of the Stay Brave Substack which encourages women-identifying creatives to inspire other women-identifying creatives to stay brave in their creative pursuits. Her creative work has been featured on PBS, and in such places as the New York Times, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A Day, USA Today, POETRY, Plume, and American Poetry Review. She is a writing coach who has taught workshops to all ages at such places as Poetry School London, Poets House, Hudson Valley Writers Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering and elsewhere. She is working on a fourth collection of poems Ordinary Splendor, on wonder, joy and love. She can be found at www.leahumansky.com or @leah.umansky on IG.
Anton Yakovlev's full-length poetry collection One Night We Will No Longer Bear the Ocean came out in June 2024 from ELJ Editions. His most recent poetry chapbook Chronos Dines Alone (SurVision Books, 2018) won the James Tate Prize. His poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry Daily, the Hopkins Review, Plume, Crab Orchard Review, upstreet, and elsewhere. The Last Poet of the Village: Selected Poems by Sergei Yesenin Translated by Anton Yakovlev was published by Sensitive Skin Books in 2019. Anton co-hosts the Carmine Street Metrics reading series in Manhattan, the Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow reading series in Rutherford, New Jersey, and the Out of the Box reading series at Bowery Poetry Club. He is a former education director at Bowery Poetry Club.
Jimin Seo is the author of OSSIA, winner of The Changes Book Prize, and the chapbook A - 1982 (mercury firs).
Topaz Winters is the Singaporean-American author of So, Stranger (Button Poetry 2022) & Portrait of My Body as a Crime I’m Still Committing (Button Poetry 2019 & 2024). She serves as editor-in-chief of Half Mystic Press, an independent, international, & interdisciplinary publishing project, & as co-editor of Kopi Break, a journal of new Singapore poetry. Her work has been published by Waxwing, the Drift, & Poets.org, profiled in Vogue, the Straits Times, & the Business Times, & performed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Centre for Fiction, & the Singapore Writers Festival. She lives between New York & Singapore.
Joan Kwon Glass is a Korean diasporic poet, winner of the 2024 Perugia Press Poetry Prize for her book Daugher of Three Gone Kingdoms & Night Swim, winner of the Diode Book Prize (Diode Editions, 2022). Joan’s poems have been featured or are forthcoming in POETRY, the Slowdown, Poetry Northwest, Passages North, Poetry Daily, Terrain, Ninth Letter, Rattle, AAWW (The Margins), Tahoma Literary Review, Prairie Schooner, Salamander & elsewhere. She lives in coastal Connecticut.