Join us at the McNally Jackson Seaport, Manhattan’s own coastal refuge, as we present an evening featuring a range of brilliant minds from NYC’s poetry scene.

The title for this new monthly series comes from Herman Melville’s poem “Art”. Poetry, wine, and the sea have always been inextricably intertwined. This reading series seeks to highlight poets from all over the city, and give them a backdrop of McNally Jackson’s Seaport location to read their new work. Join us to hear poems, drink wine, and enjoy the “pulsed life”.

This month’s reading features Aditi Kini, Rainer Diana Hamilton, Dorothea Lasky, Malvika Jolly, Olga Mikolaivna, & Tangie Mitchell

About the Poets:

Aditi Kini writes prose, scripts, and text objects from an office with butterscotch walls in Ridgewood, Queens. And now, Hyde Park, where Aditi just started a PhD in English and Theater and Performance Studies at the University of Chicago. Oriental Cyborg (2024), a collection of notes, jokes, and queries on race, automata/automation, and globalization, won Essay Press’s Chapbook Prize.

Rainer Diana Hamilton ‘s fourth book, Lilacs, is out from Krupskaya this fall. They are also the author of God Was Right (2018), The Awful Truth (2017), and Okay, Okay (2012). They write, broadly, about the forms that dreams, art, and love have taken.

Dorothea Lasky is the author of several books of poetry and prose, including The Shining (Wave Books) and MEMORY (Semiotext(e)).

Malvika Jolly is the winner of the 2025 Alice James Award for her forthcoming debut poetry collection, Visiting Hours of the World (March 2027). She is a graduate student at NYU where she teaches in the undergraduate writing program. She runs the poetry reading series The New Third World.

Olga Mikolaivna was born in Kyiv and works in the (intersectional/textual) liminal space of photography, word, translation, and installation. She has multiple publications out with Tilted House and a forthcoming chapbook, “our monuments to California,” she calls them, with Ursus Americanus. Her translation of Stanislav Belsky’s first full length collection in English There Won’t be a Culmination, will be out with Dialogos / Lavender Ink. She lives in Philadelphia and teaches at Temple University

Tangie Mitchell (she/her) is a poet from North Carolina. Her work centers personal and collective histories of the Black American South and has been featured in The Poetry Project Newsletter, Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora, No, Dear, Poetry Wales, Mosaic and more. She is a 2024 Poetry Project Emerge-Surface-Be Fellow, a Watering Hole poetry fellow, and an alum of the UK-based Obsidian Foundation.