[New York, NY]

Simone Kearney at The Poetry Project (With Belladonna*)
March 1, 2023, 8:00 pm
at The Poetry Project

Please join Belladonna* for a long-awaited in-person celebration of their three most recent full-length titles, with readings from authors Kimberly Alidio, Cait O’Kane, and UDP author Simone Kearney!

 

Masks are required at all Poetry Project events unless otherwise specifically noted. If you forget to bring your mask, we are happy to provide you with one. We also encourage all event attendees to take a rapid test the day of the event before heading to the church.

This in-person event will also be livestreamed via The Poetry Project’s YouTube. Livestream captions will be available via a StreamText link or the CC button on YouTube’s player.

Open CART captioning is scheduled for most in-person events.

More info here.

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Simone Kearney is a writer and artist, living in Brooklyn, NY. She is author of the debut poetry collection DAYS (Belladonna Press, 2021) and My Ida (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017). Other publications include Brooklyn Rail, Boston review, Lithub, PEN Poetry Series, Jubilat, and Post Road Magazine, among others. She has exhibited her artwork nationally and internationally. She teachers at Parsons School for Design.

Kimberly Alidio is the author of four books of poetry, including Teeter which will be published this August. Their video, sound, and visual poetry appear in FIVES, Bæst, Juf, and Anamorphoseis. Her writing has been awarded the Nightboat Poetry Prize and the Bill Waller Award in Creative Nonfiction; nominated for the United States Artists Fellowship, the Lambda Literary Award, the Best-of-the-Net Anthology, and the Pushcart Prize; and anthologized in Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene; Filipino Studies: Palimpsests of Nation and Diaspora; Q&A: Voices from Queer Asian North America; and the forthcoming De-Canon anthology of interdisciplinary writing. They have led writing workshops for The Flow Chart Text Kitchen, The Poetry Project, 3 Hole Press, Kundiman, and Naropa’s Jack Kerouac School, and currently work as adjunct faculty for Bard College. She lives on Munsee-Mohican lands along the Mahicannituck River, otherwise known as New York’s Upper Hudson Valley.

Cait O’Kane, the 2014-2016 Anne Waldman Fellow at the Jack Kerouac School at Naropa University, was born in Philadelphia and currently lives there with family. Cait got both a BA and MA in English at the Kutztown University of Pennsylvania (while working 3 jobs) & remains grateful for the advice issued there by a dear friend and mentor: write every day and remember to breathe.