AQR @ KGB Poetry Live in New York City

AQR @ KGB Poetry Live in New York City

[ORDER OF THE READINGS]

Jessica Greenbaum is the co-editor, with Rabbi Hara Person, of CCAR Press' Mishkan HaSeder: A Passover Haggadah (2021). A poet, teacher, and social worker, her first book of poems, Inventing Difficulty (2000), won the Gerald Cable Prize; her second book, The Two Yvonnes (2012), was called a "Best Book of Poetry for 2012" by Library Journal, and of her third book, Spilled and Gone (2019), the poet Tony Hoagland said, "When I read it, I feel myself open and relax into the world." Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, Yale Review, Paris Review and elsewhere, and for twelve years she was the poetry editor for the literary journal upstreet. A recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts fellowship and the Agnes di Castagnola award from the Poetry Society of America, she teaches inside and outside academia, including at Barnard and Vassar Colleges, Brooklyn Poets and DOROT'S senior center.

Laura Kolbe is a writer, physician, and medical ethicist. Her debut poetry collection Little Pharma, published in the University of Pittsburgh’s Pitt Poetry Series, won the 2021 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize and was named among the best books of 2021 by the Boston Globe. Her poetry, fiction, personal essays, and criticism can be found in The Nation, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, Poetry, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. New poems are forthcoming in The New Yorker. Her work has also been featured in Best American Poetry 2022, on The New Yorker Radio Hour, on the Nocturnists podcast, on LitHub's Thresholds podcast, and in the Yale University Press anthology A World Out of Reach: Dispatches from Life Under Lockdown. Her writing has been supported by fellowships from the Calderwood Foundation, MacDowell, and the James Merrill House. She is currently completing a poetry manuscript, tentatively entitled Keeping the House, structured around the forty-week gestational calendar and the history of childbirth, medicine, and motherhood.

Mihaela Moscaliuc was born and raised in Romania. She is the author of the poetry collections Cemetery Ink (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), Immigrant Model (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015) and Father Dirt (Alice James Books, 2010), translator of Liliana Ursu’s Clay and Star (Etruscan P, 2019) and Carmelia Leonte’s The Hiss of the Viper (Carnegie Mellon UP, 2014), editor of Insane Devotion: On the Writing of Gerald Stern (Trinity UP, 2016), and co-editor of Border Lines: Poems of Migration (Knopf, 2020). She is the recipient of two Glenna Luschei Awards from Prairie Schooner and fellowships from Chateau de Lavigny, VCCA, MacDowell, and NJ State Council on the Arts. Moscaliuc is associate professor of English at Monmouth University and translation editor for Plume.

Carey Salerno is the executive director and executive editor of Alice James Books, an independent publishing house that was established in 1973 and is dedicated to poetry. She holds a BA from Western Michigan University and an MFA in Poetry from New England College. She is the author of Tributary (2021), Shelter (2009), and co-editor of Lit From Inside: 40 Years of Poetry from Alice James Books (2013). Her work-in-progress is a book of literary criticism and versification in relation to publishing arts. One of her current editorial projects is the New & Collected Poems of Jean Valentine. Her poems and essays have appeared in American Poetry Review and New England Review. She teaches courses in poetry and publishing arts for the University of Maine at Farmington and resides in New Jersey.

Michael Waters’ recent books include Sinnerman (Etruscan Press, 2023), Caw (BOA Editions, 2020), The Dean of Discipline (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018) & the coedited anthology Border Lines: Poems of Migration (Knopf, 2020). Darling Vulgarity (BOA Editions, 2006) was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A 2017 Guggenheim Fellow, he is the recipient of five Pushcart Prizes & NEA, Fulbright, & NJ State Council on the Arts fellowships. He lives without a cell phone in Ocean, NJ.