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About the Poets:
Jameson Fitzpatrick is the author of Pricks in the Tapestry (Birds, LLC, 2020). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Poetry Review, The Sewanee Review, and elsewhere. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts, she teaches first-year writing at New York University.
Named one of Flavorwire’s 100 best living writers and “a crucial voice of her generation” by KCRW’s Michael Silverblatt, Ariana Reines is an award-winning poet, Obie-winning playwright, performing artist, and translator. Her most recent books are The Rose (Graywolf, 2025), which Chris Kraus called “thrilling and harrowing,” and Wave of Blood, published in the UK in 2024 by Divided Publishing. Her other books include A Sand Book (Tin House, 2019), winner of the 2020 Kingsley Tufts Prize and longlisted for the National Book Award, The Cow (Alberta Prize, 2006), Coeur De Lion (2007), and Mercury (2011), all from Fence Books, and The Origin of the World (2014) from Semiotext(e). Her Obie-winning play Telephone (2009) was commissioned by The Foundry Theatre and has been performed and published in Norwegian translation at the Mollebyen Literary Festival (2017) and at KW Berlin (2018) among others. Recent commissions include Possession (2023), a major sculpture and performance collaboration with Liz Magic Laser, at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, NY, and Divine Justice (2022), a 24-hour theatrical environment at Performance Space New York.
Emily Skillings is the author of the poetry collection Fort Not (The Song Cave, 2017), which Publishers Weekly called a “fabulously eccentric, hypnotic, and hypervigilant debut.” Her second book, Tantrums in Air, will be published in 2025. Skillings’ recent poems can be found in Poetry, Harper’s, Granta, FOLDER, jubilat, and the New York Review of Books. She is the editor of Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works by John Ashbery, which was published by Ecco/HarperCollins in 2021. She is a member of the Belladonna* Collaborative, a feminist poetry collective, small press, and event series. She received her MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts, where she was a Creative Writing Teaching Fellow in 2017. Her work has been supported by residencies and fellowships from the T.S. Eliot Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Skillings currently teaches creative writing at Yale, NYU, and Columbia. She lives in Brooklyn.