Sylvia Jones presents TELEVISION FATHERS

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Sylvia Jones joins us to discuss her new poetry collection Television Fathers with Jacob Budenz, Karan Madhok, and Alina Pleskova.

About TELEVISION FATHERS

Sylvia Jones’s Television Fathers creates a wholly new lens. With poems reminiscent of iconoclasts such as James Tate or Jay Wright, Jones’s voice is playful and pithy, simultaneously reimagining the past and reveling in the absurd contemporary—her gaze never straying from social inequity, nor from the personal scales of fate. A heavily saturated debut collection of unsuspecting interiority, Television Fathers is the future of modern poetry.

Television Fathers will be available for purchase at the event!

Sylvia Jones' debut poetry collection, Television Fathers, is forthcoming this October from Meekling Press. She serves as an editor at Black Lawrence Press and intermittently reads for the journal, Ploughshares. She teaches creative writing at George Washington University and with Goucher’s Pr*son Education Program. She’s received support from Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts; Topical Cream; Jack Straw Cultural Center; The Emerging Artist Initiative; Poets at the End of The World Collective; Creative Capital; The Maryland State Arts Council; UMBC; The Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Community Center of New York and The Cleveland Museum of Art. She received her MFA from American University in Washington D.C., she writes and resides in Baltimore, Maryland.

Jacob Budenz is a queer author, multidisciplinary performance artist, and musician with an MFA from University of New Orleans and a BA from Johns Hopkins University. The author of queer magic realist short story collection TEA LEAVES (Amble Press 2023) and poetry chapbook PASTEL WITCHERIES (Seven Kitchens Press 2018), Budenz has fiction and poetry in print journal including Slipstream and Assaracus, zeitgeisty online journals including Wussy Mag and Taco Bell Quarterly, and anthologies by Unbound Edition, Mason Jar Press, and more. A 2019 Baker Innovative Projects Award recipient for SIMAETHA and a recent Patty Friedman Poetry Prize runner up for "Eracura in Exile," Jake is everywhere online as @dreambabyjake but always better in person.

Karan Madhok is a writer, editor, and journalist. His debut novel A Beautiful Decay was published by the Aleph Book Company in October 2022. His work has appeared in Epiphany, Sycamore Review, Gargoyle, The Bombay Review, Fifty Two, Scroll, The Caravan, the anthology A Case of Indian Marvels and The Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English 2022. He is the editor of the Indian Arts Review The Chakkar. His second book, Ananda: An Exploration of Cannabis in India, is expected from the Aleph Book Company in December 2024. Karan is a graduate of the MFA Programme from the American University in Washington D.C.

Alina Pleskova is a poet, editor, and Moscow-born immigrant turned proud Philadelphian. Her full-length collection, Toska, was published by Deep Vellum in 2023 and was nominated for a 2024 Lambda Literary Award. She hosts Liner Notes, a monthly reading and conversation series at 48 Record Bar in Philly, where writers and listeners vibe out on their favorite records. You can find her work in various places, and her spirit in the astral realm. More at alinapleskova.com.

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