COUPLET Reading Series: The 'Winter Edition'

Name: COUPLET Reading Series: The 'Winter Edition'
Start: 2025-02-28T17:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-28T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Red Room

Schedule

Fri Feb 28 2025 at 05:00 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Red Room | New York, NY

Join us for The 'Winter Edition' of COUPLET Reading Series.
COUPLET is a quarterly reading series, produced, curated and hosted by poet Leah Umansky since 2011. It features both emerging and established poets and is co-hosted by The Red Room. This will Livestream on the IG live at @couplet_series on IG
Our readers are:
1. Sarah Ghazal Ali
2. Tina Cane
3. Darren C. Demaree
4. Jennifer Martelli
5. Elizabeth Scanlon
6. Bruce Whitacre

Sarah Ghazal Ali is a writer, editor, and educator. She is the author of THEOPHANIES (Alice James Books, 2024), selected as the Editors' Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award. A Stadler and Kundiman Fellow, Sarah is the poetry editor for West Branch and an Assistant Professor of English at Macalester College. She lives and writes in the Twin Cities, Minnesota.
Tina Cane is the author of the poetry collections Year of the Murder Hornet (Veliz Books 2022), Body of Work (Veliz Books, 2019), and Once More with Feeling (Veliz Books, 2017). She has also published the chapbooks Dear Elena: Letters for Elena Ferrante (Skillman Avenue Press, 2016) and The Fifth Thought (Other Painters Press, 2008), as well as the young adult novel Alma Presses Play (Penguin/Random House) . Cane serves as the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island where she is the founder and director of Writers-in-the-Schools, RI. She is the creator/curator of the distance reading series, Poetry is Bread.
Darren C. Demaree is the author of twenty-three poetry collections, most recently “So Much More”, (Harbor Editions, November 2024). He is the recipient of a Greater Columbus Arts Council Grant, an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Louise Bogan Award from Trio House Press, and the Nancy Dew Taylor Award from Emrys Journal. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Best of the Net Anthology and the Managing Editor of Ovenbird Poetry. He is currently working in the Columbus Metropolitan Library system
Jennifer Martelli has received fellowships from The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Monson Arts, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her work has appeared in The Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, Poetry, Best of the Net Anthology, Braving the Body Anthology, Verse Daily, Plume, The Tahoma Literary Review, and elsewhere. She is the author of Psychic Party Under the Bottle Tree, The Queen of Queens, which won the Italian American Studies Association Book Award and was shortlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award, and My Tarantella, which was also shortlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award and named finalist for the Housatonic Book Award. Jennifer Martelli is co-poetry editor for MER.
Elizabeth Scanlon is the Editor-in-Chief of The American Poetry Review. She is the author of Whosoever Whole (Omnidawn) and Lonesome Gnosis (Horsethief Books), as well as the chapbooks The Brain Is Not the United States/The Brain Is the Ocean (The Head & The Hand Press) and Odd Regard (ixnay press). Her poems have appeared in many magazines, including Poetry Ireland, Poetry London, and others.
Bruce Whitacre is the author of Good Housekeeping, 2024 from Poets Wear Prada. The Elk in the Glade: The World of Pioneer and Painter Jennie Hicks, 2022 from Crown Rock Media. Both were BookLife Reviews Editors Picks and received BookFest awards. Richard Thomas narrated the audiobook of the latter. Whitacre’s crown sonnet won the Nebraska Poetry Society’s 2023 Poetry Contest. His poems have appeared in many anthologies and over thirty five journals. Nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net. www.brucewhitacre.com.

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The Red Room/ KGB Bar is a historic landmark. Please support our home by supporting their 'TWO DRINK MINIMUM.' They do so much for the literary arts. Additionally, this event is on the third floor and sadly is not handicap accessible.
This event is generously sponsored by Poets & Writers.