APR 25 | 6:30pm at McNally Jackson Seaport
Brave, Unbodied Scheme featuring:
Alex Cuff, Allyson Paty, Rosamond S. King, Sue Landers, and Terrence Arjoon
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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 Seaport location to read their new work. Join us to hear poems, drink wine, and enjoy the “pulsed life”.
This month's reading features Alex Cuff, Allyson Paty, Rosamond S. King, Sue Landers, and Terrence Arjoon
Alex Cuff is an educator, writer, and editor living in Brooklyn, New York. Her chapbooks include I Try Out A Sentence to See Whether I Believe (Ghost Proposal) and Family, A Natural Wonder (Reality Beach). Writing has been published in Apogee Journal, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Brooklyn Rail, Teachers and Writers Magazine, Poetry Project Newsletter, 6X6, and elsewhere. Cuff is a co-founding editor of the Brooklyn-based poetry journal No, Dear, a public high school teacher at the Academy for Young Writers, and a graduate of the Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts at Bard College.
Allyson Paty is the author of Jalousie (Tupelo Press, 2025), winner of the 2023 Berkshire Prize, and several chapbooks, most recently Five O’Clock on the Shore (above/ground press, 2019). Her poems appear in publications including Denver Quarterly, Fence, Poetry, The Recluse, and the Yale Review, and she's written nonfiction for The Baffler. A 2017 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Poetry and a participant in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s 2017-2018 Workspace Program, Allyson Paty is co-founding editor of Singing Saw Press. She works and teaches at NYU Gallatin and with NYU's Prison Education Program.
Rosamond S. King is the author of poetry collections All the Rage and the Lambda Award-winning Rock | Salt | Stone. Her writing has also been published in more than three dozen journals, blogs, and anthologies, including The Feminist Wire, Hyperallergic, The Caribbean Writer, and The New Daughters of Africa. She draws on reality to create non-literal, culturally and politically engaged interpretations of African diaspora experiences. King’s performances have been curated in venues around the world, including the New York Metropolitan Museum and the VIVA! and Encuentro Festivals, Gibney, Dixon Place, the Bocas LitFest, and the African Performance Art Biennial. King is a professor at Brooklyn College (CUNY).
Sue Landers is the author of four poetry collections. Her new book, What to Carry Into the Future, emerged from riding every New York City subway from end to end. Her poems have appeared in Poem-A-Day, Brooklyn Rail, The Offing, and elsewhere. From 2018-2021, she served as the executive director of Lambda Literary. More at suelanders.com.
Terrence Arjoon is a poet, editor, and critic whose work has appeared in Tagvverk, the Poetry Project Newsletter, and Smooth Friend, among other publications. His chapbook Acid Splash, or Into Blue Caves was published by 1080PRESS where he is an editor. His book The Disinherited is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse.