She lives in New York where she edits a zine series called Girl Blood Info.Īll attendees are welcome to join our Saturday reception preceding in the Heimbold Atrium from 5-6 PM. Smith’s The Slowdown.Ĭhessy Normile is the author of “Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great Party,” selected by Li-Young Lee for the 2020 APR/Honickman First Book Prize. Recently, her poem “Dancing with Kiko on the Moon” was featured in Tracy K. In 2017, her poem "Poet Wrestling with Angels in the Dark" was commissioned by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in NYC, and published by The Kenyon Review Online. Her work appears in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Poetry Society of America (PSA), The Poetry Review (UK), Tin House, Guernica, Electric Literature, Waxwing, among others. Since our founding in 1970, Poets & Writers has served as an information clearinghouse of all matters related to writing.
She is also the author of turn around, “BRXGHT XYXS” (Get Fresh Books, 2019) and the chapbook “20 Atomic Sonnets,” which appears online in Black Warrior Review (2020) and is part of a larger future project called “The Atomic Sonnets.” She has received fellowships and grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, City Artists Corps, CantoMundo and Queens Council on the Arts. Born to a Mexican mother and Jewish father, Rosebud Ben-Oni is the winner of 2019 Alice James Award for “If This Is the Age We End Discovery” (March 2021), which received a Starred Review in Booklist and was a finalist for the 2021 National Jewish Book Award in Poetry.