Poetry Reading | Eight Poets From Near and Far Read Their Work

In 2020, a group of poets and friends from across the world planned to meet up in New York City to give a joint reading. Then the pandemic struck, and that reading never happened. Four years later, they are meeting—many of them for the first time in person. Poets from across the United States, and as far away as Italy, will converge for a unique poetry event.

About the Poets
Marc Alan Di Martino is the author of Love Poem with Pomegranate (Ghost City Press, 2023), Still Life with City (Pski's Porch, 2022), and Unburial (Kelsay, 2019). His poems and translations from Italian appear in many journals and anthologies, including Bad Lilies, Palette Poetry & Rattle. His translation Day Lasts Forever: Selected Poems of Mario dell'Arco (translated from the Romanesco dialect) will be published by World Poetry Books in 2024. Currently a reader for Baltimore Review, he lives in Italy.

Betsy Mars is a prize-winning poet, photographer, and assistant editor at Gyroscope Review. Recent poems can be found in One Art, Quartet, and Autumn Sky. Her photos have appeared online and in print, including one which was a Rattle Ekphrastic Challenge prompt in 2019. She has two books, Alinea, and her most recent, co-written with Alan Walowitz, In the Muddle of the Night. Betsy is currently and sporadically working on a full-length manuscript titled Rue Obscure.

Aaron Poochigian earned a PhD in Classics from the University of Minnesota and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. His latest poetry collection, American Divine, the winner of the Richard Wilbur Award, came out in 2021. He has published numerous translations with Penguin Classics and W.W. Norton. His work has appeared in such publications as Best American Poetry, The Paris Review and POETRY. He lives in New York City.

Bonnie Proudfoot's writing focuses on the intersection of family roles, place, and identity. Her novel, Goshen Road (OU/ Swallow Press) was named the WCONA Book of the Year and was Longlisted for the 2021 PEN/ Hemingway. Her 2022 poetry chapbook, Household Gods, can be found on Sheila-Na-Gig editions, along with a forthcoming book of short stories, Camp Probable. Bonnie's fiction, poetry, reviews, and essays have appeared in dozens of journals and anthologies.

Alan Walowitz is a Contributing Editor at Verse-Virtual, an Online Community Journal of Poetry. His chapbook Exactly Like Love comes from Osedax Press. The Story of the Milkman and Other Poems is available from Truth Serum Press. From Arroyo Seco Press, In the Muddle of the Night, written with poet Betsy Mars. The chapbook, The Poems of the Air, is from Red Wolf Editions.

Donna Masini is the author of three books of poems--4:30 Movie (W.W. Norton, 2018), Turning to Fiction (Norton, 2004), That Kind of Danger (Beacon Press, 1994)--and a novel, About Yvonne (Norton,1998). Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies including American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Poetry, Ploughshares, Paris Review, Five Points. A recipient of National Endowment for the Arts and NY Foundation for the Arts grants, a Pushcart Prize, as well as fellowship residencies at Civitella Ranieri, Bogliasco and Yaddo, she is a Professor of English/Creative Writing at Hunter College. She is currently at work on her new collection of poems, In Cahoots. 

Barbara Crooker is the author of ten full-length books of poetry: Slow Wreckage (Grayson Books, 2024); Some Glad Morning (Pitt Poetry Series - longlisted for the Julie Suk award), and The Book of Kellls (Cascade Books).