Third Thursdays Poetry: Miller Oberman, March Penn, & Mila Cuda

Miller Oberman is the author of from Duke University Press (2024) and , Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets (2017). His awards include a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, the 92Y Discovery Prize, a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, and Poetry magazine’s John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize for Translation. His poems have appeared in Boston Review, London Review of Books, The Nation, The New Yorker, Poetry and Poem-a-Day. Miller is an editor at, which publishes visual-literary collaborations and serves on the board of . He teaches writing at Eugene Lang College at The New School. Miller is a trans Jewish anti-Zionist who lives with his family in Queens, New York.

March Penn writes about neurodiversity, gender fluidity, queer relationships, chronic illness and creative community building. During the pandemic, they started DIY MFA/ Self-Educating Poets Network to make literary education free and accessible using online resources. March’s first full-length book, Green Antelope Fire, is out with Game Over Books.

Mila Cuda is a caffeine-sensitive lesbian from Los Angeles with an unmatched enthusiasm for spiders. The former Youth Poet Laureate of the West Coast, their work has been featured on Teen Vogue, Button Poetry, Rookie, PBS and Poetry Online. A two-time winner of The Charlotte Paul Reese Memorial Prize for Creativity in Poetry, she now lives in Somerville, MA, with her partner and the seasons. Still (Game Over Books, 2024) is her first full-length collection.

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