Video recording of the event can be viewed here on the Museum’s youtube channel.
Join us for a virtual poetry reading!
We are a group of 10 Queens poets who will come together to create and perform an exquisite corpse poem on the theme of recollection, as well as to discuss our experiences of Queens lit and community. In partnership with Lewis Latimer House Museum in Flushing, NYC.
Viewers can access the poem through this link.
Poets: Nadia Q. Ahmad, Moncho Alvarado, Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond, Sherese Francis, Abeer Y. Hoque, Dena Igusti, Hiromi Kiba, Allia Abdullah-Matta, Tori Ashley Matos, Robert Ostrom
Audience:
Adults
About the poets:
Nadia Q. Ahmad
Nadia Q. Ahmad is a poet, writer, editor, and writing workshop instructor based in Queens. Learn more at nadiaqahmad.com
Moncho Alvarado
Moncho Alvarado is a sister in residence in air, a Cihuayollotl, Xicanx trans poet, translator, visual artist, and educator. She is the author of Greyhound Americans, which was the winner of the 2020 Saturnalia Book Prize, selected by Diane Seuss. Visit her at monchoalvarado.com
Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond is the author of children’s picture book BLUE: A HISTORY OF THE COLOR AS DEEP AS THE SEA AND AS WIDE AS THE SKY and the young adult novel POWDER NECKLACE. Every month, Brew-Hammond co-leads a writers group whose mission is to write light into the darkness. Visit Nana at nanabrewhammond.com
Sherese Francis
Sherese Francis is an Alkymist of the I-Magination and expresses her(e)self through poetry, interdisciplinary arts, workshop facilitation, editing and literary curation. Some of her(e) work has been published in Furious Flower, Obsidian, Apex Magazine, Bone Bouquet, African Voices, and Newtown Literary. Visit Sherese at: linktr.ee/sheresefrancis
Abeer Hoque
Abeer Hoque is a Nigerian-born Bangladeshi American writer and photographer. She likes injera chips, funny girls, and poetry in the round. Her books include a coffee table book (The Long Way Home, 2013), a linked collection of stories, poems, and photographs (The Lovers and the Leavers, 2015), and a memoir (Olive Witch, 2017). Visit Abeer at olivewitch.com
Dena Igusti
Dena Igusti (they/them) is a queer Indonesian writer born and raised in Queens, NYC. Their poetry collection, Cut Woman (Game Over Books, 2020) is a 2020 Harvard Bookstore Staff Pick and Entropy Magazine Best of 2020-2021. Visit them at denaigusti.com
Robert Ostrom
Robert Ostrom is the author of Sandhour, Ritual and Bit, and The Youngest Butcher in Illinois. He lives in Ridgewood, Queens and teaches at New York City College of Technology. Visit Robert at robertostrompoet.com
Allia Abdullah-Matta
Allia Abdullah-Matta is a poet and Professor of English at CUNY LaGuardia. She writes about the culture, and history of Black women and explores the presence of Black bodies and voices in fine art and poetry. Her poetry has been published in Newtown Literary, Promethean, Marsh Hawk Review, Mom Egg Review Vox, Global City Review, the Jam Journal Issue of Push/Pull and (Re) An Ideas Journal. Her chapbook(s) washed clean & blues politico (2021) were published by harlequin creatures (hcx).
Hiromi Kiba
Hiromi Kiba (she/them) is a non-binary and Kew Gardens, Queens based interdisciplinary artist. Kiba was born in Ise, Japan and loves music and dancing. She participated in residencies at ChaShaMa (2022), NARS Foundation (2021), mh PROJECT nyc (2020). She is a contributor of ‘Dance Floor Realization’ to Harlequin Creature (2021) and ‘Music and Spirituality’ to Love Injection (2022 - 2019). Visit Kiba at kibounce.wixsite.com