Poetry Reading: Alex Dimitrov, Megan Fernandes, and Noah Warren
Poetry Reading: Alex Dimitrov, Megan Fernandes, and Noah Warren
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Alex Dimitrov is the author of three books of poems, Love and Other Poems, which will be published by Copper Canyon Press in February of 2021, Together and by Ourselves, and Begging for It. His poems have been published in The New Yorker, the New York Times, The Paris Review, and Poetry. In addition to NYU, he has taught writing at Princeton University, Columbia University, and Barnard College. Previously, he was the Senior Content Editor at the Academy of American Poets, where he edited the popular series Poem-a-Day and American Poets magazine. With Dorothea Lasky he is the co-author of Astro Poets: Your Guides to the Zodiac. He lives in New York.
Megan Fernandes is a writer living in New York City. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, Tin House, Ploughshares, Denver Quarterly, Chicago Review, Boston Review, Rattle, Pank, The Common, Guernica, the Academy of American Poets, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, among others. She is the author of The Kingdom and After (Tightrope Books 2015). Her second book of poetry, Good Boys, was a finalist for the Kundiman Book Prize (2018), the Saturnalia Book Prize (2018), and was published with Tin House Books in February 2020. Fernandes is an Assistant Professor of English and the Writer-in-Residence at Lafayette College where she teaches courses on poetry, creative nonfiction, and critical theory. She holds a PhD in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MFA in poetry from Boston University.
Noah Warren was born in Nova Scotia, Canada and educated in the United States. He is the author of The Complete Stories, forthcoming from Copper Canyon in 2021, and The Destroyer in the Glass (2016), chosen by Carl Phillips for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. He is a PhD student in English at UC Berkeley and a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. His poems appear in The Paris Review, POETRY, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, ZYZZYVA, PEN America, The New England Review, Narrative, The Southern Review, AGNI, poets.org, and elsewhere. He is at work on a book of narrative essays and a new collection of poems.