Join us in celebrating National Poetry Month with readings from Sarah Bridgins, Wren Hanks, Anjali Khosla, Zefyr Lisowski, & Anthony Thomas Lombardi.
Sarah Bridgins is the author of the Sexton Poetry Prize winning collection DEATH AND EXES (Eyewear Books, 2022). Her work has appeared in Tin House, BuzzFeed, Bustle, and Joyland among other publications. She is the co-founder of the Ditmas Lit reading series in Brooklyn.
Wren Hanks is the author of Lily-livered (Driftwood Press, 2021), winner of the Adrift Chapbook Contest, and The Rise of Genderqueer (Brain Mill Press, 2018). A 2016 Lambda Emerging Writers Fellow, his recent work appears or is forthcoming in Indiana Review, Third Coast, DIAGRAM, and The Journal. He is a poetry editor for smoke and mold, a journal invested in the intersections of trans writing and climate change. He lives in Brooklyn, loves velvet, and works in animal rights.
Anjali Khosla is an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Design at The New School. Her poetry chapbook, Ghostbot, was published by Wendy’s Subway and Norby Press in 2019. She was the recipient of the 2020 New York Press Club prize for travel writing, the 2021 South Asian Journalists Association award for essay and opinion writing, the 2021 Nadya Aisenberg fellowship at MacDowell, and a 2022 writing residency at 33 Officina Creativa in Toffia, Italy.
Zefyr Lisowski is a poetry co-editor at the Whiting Award winning Apogee Journal, the author of the Lizzie Borden queer murder chapbook Blood Box (Black Lawrence Press), and the winner of the 2022 Noemi Book Prize for her full-length collection, Girl Work (forthcoming 2024). Her poems and essays have appeared in Catapult, The Offing, and elsewhere. She has received support from Blue Mountain Center, Tin House Summer Writers Workshop, and more. She grew up in the Great Dismal Swamp, NC, and lives at zeflisowski.com.
Anthony Thomas Lombardi is a Best of the Net- and Pushcart-nominated poet, editor, organizer,
and educator. He is the founder and director of Word is Bond, a community-centered reading series partnered with the Asian American Writers’ Workshop that raises funds for transnational relief efforts, bail funds, and mutual aid organizations, and currently serves as a poetry editor for Sundog Lit. He has taught at Borough of Manhattan Community College, Paris College of Art, Brooklyn Poets, Polyphony Lit’s Summer Editorial Apprenticeship Program, and community programming throughout New York City. A recipient of the Poetry Project’s Emerge-Surface-Be Fellowship, his work has appeared or will soon in the Poetry Foundation’s Ours Poetica, Guernica, Black Warrior Review, Gulf Coast, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Massachusetts Review, North American Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and their two cats.