Poetry Reading | Poets of Broadstone Books

Broadstone Books will feature six New York area poets—three with international roots—who have recent works on the subjects of: politics, both domestic and international, death and dying, nature, Caribbean life, the struggle to keep a family home, and other subjects.

Hosted by Larry Moore, publisher, Broadstone Books

Aboout the Readers
Indran Amirthanayagam produced a “world record” in 2020, publishing three poetry collections written in three different languages. He writes in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Haitian Creole. He has published 23 poetry books, including Isleño (R.I.L. Editores), Ten Thousand Steps Against the Tyrant, The Migrant States,The Elephants of Reckoning (winner 1994 Paterson Poetry Prize), Uncivil War, and The Splintered Face: Tsunami Poems. He edits the Beltway Poetry Quarterly (www.beltwaypoetry.com) and is the IFLAC Word Poeta Mundial 2022. New books, include Powèt nan po la (Poet of the Port) and Origami:Selected Poems of Manuel Ulacia.

Myra Malkin is the author of Sunset Grand Couturier, published in early 2022 by Broadstone Books. Her chapbook, No Lifeguard on Duty, was published by Mainstreet Rag in 2010.

Mary Tautin Moloney is a two-time National Poetry Series finalist and a recipient of the Bread Loaf Bakeless Camargo Residency fellowship in Cassis, France. Her work has appeared in Tar River Poetry, Quarterly West, and The Florida Review, among others. Her debut collection, At the Base of Kaaterskill Falls, was released by Broadstone Books in 2023.

Claudia Serea is a Romanian-born poet with poems and translations published in Field, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, The Puritan, Oxford Poetry, and elsewhere. She is the author of seven poetry collections, most recently In Those Years, No One Slept (Broadstone Books, 2023). Serea won the Joanne Scott Kennedy Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of Virginia, the New Letters Readers Award, and the Franklin-Christoph Merit Award. Her poems have been translated in French, Italian, Russian, Arabic, and Farsi and featured on The Writer’s Almanac. She is a founding editor of National Translation Month, serves on the board of The Red Wheelbarrow Poets, and co-hosts their monthly readings.

Mervyn Taylor, a Trinidad-born poet and longtime Brooklyn resident, is the author of eight books of poetry, including The Waving Gallery (2014), Country of Warm Snow (2020), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation that was listed for the Bocas Lit Prize, and most recently, The Last Train (2023). A chapbook, News of the Living: Corona Poems, was published by Broadstone in 2020. Currently, Taylor serves as co-editor of Slapering Hol Press, Hudson Valley, New York.

Meredith Trede’s poetry collections are: Bringing Back the House (Broadstone Books), Tenement Threnody (Main Street Rag Press), and Field Theory (SFA University Press). A Toadlily Press founder, her chapbook, Out of the Book, was in Desire Path. Extensive journal publications include Barrow Street, The Feminist Wire, Friends Journal, Gargoyle, Gathering of Tribes, and The Paris Review. She has held residencies at Blue Mountain Center, Ragdale, Saltonstall, and VCCA in Virginia and France. She’s a Slapering Hol Press Advisory Committee member.