
Brooklyn Poets Reading Series 2.21.25
February 21 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Join us for our first Brooklyn Poets Reading Series of the year at 144 Montague on Friday, February 21st, featuring poets Asiya Wadud, Miller Oberman and Brad Walrond! Free and open to the public, the event will also be livestreamed via Zoom. Doors will open at 6 PM and readings will begin at 7. Book signing to follow.
About the Poets:
Asiya Wadud is the author of several poetry collections, most recently Mandible Wishbone Solvent and No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body. Her recent work can be found in Interlude Docs, Poetry, e-flux, Poem-a-Day, BOMB and elsewhere. Wadud’s work has been supported by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Foundation Jan Michalski, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Danspace Project, Finnish Cultural Institute of New York, Madhouse Helsinki, Beirut Arts Center and Kunstenfestivaldesarts, among others. She teaches poetry at Saint Ann’s School and Pacific Northwest College of Art.
Miller Oberman is the author of Impossible Things (Duke University Press, 2024) and The Unstill Ones (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, 2017). He has received a number of awards for his poetry, including a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, the 92Y Discovery Prize, a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, and Poetry magazine’s John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize for Translation. Poems from Impossible Things have appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, the Hopkins Review, Poem-a-Day and Foglifter. Poems from The Unstill Ones appeared in Poetry, London Review of Books, the Nation, Boston Review, Tin House and Harvard Review. Miller is an editor at Broadsided Press, which publishes visual-literary collaborations and teaches at and serves on the board of Brooklyn Poets. He teaches writing at Eugene Lang College at The New School in New York. Miller is a trans Jewish anti-Zionist committed to the liberation of all.
Brad Walrond is a poet, author, performance artist and one of the foremost writers and performers of the 1990s Black Arts Movement in New York City. Walrond’s debut collection, Every Where Alien (Moore Black Press | Amistad / HarperCollins, 2024) is a portrait of the author’s own Black queer exploration of the world, amidst the discovery of the 1990s-early 2000s New York City underground art and resistance movements and communities like the New Black Arts Movement, Black Rock Coalition, the House Ballroom Scene, the HIV/AIDS Black queer artivist community and the underground house music scene. Brad’s poems have been published in: the Atlantic, Poem-A-Day, African Voices Magazine, Wordpeace, About Place and elsewhere. Walrond holds a B.A. from The City College of New York and an M.A. from Columbia University.