JANUARY 5—Shiv Kotecha leads a thinking-through/reading-through Emily Dickinson’s “Crumbling is not an instant's Act,” followed by a short reading of his own work.

Shiv Kotecha is a writer and editor. He is the author of The Switch (Wonder, 2018) and EXTRIGUE (Make Now Books, 2015), and his criticism appears in publications including 4Columns, Aperture, MUBI’s Notebook, BOMB, frieze, The Nation. He co-edits Cookie Jar, a pamphlet series of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, where he is on staff as Program Manager. He holds a PhD in English from New York University, and teaches classes on poetry and critical writing for NYU’s XE: Experimental Humanities Department and for the Department of Photography at the Rhode Island School of Design.

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JANUARY 19—Bhanu Kapil leads a thinking-through/reading-through of Etel Adnan's from The Spring Flowers Own: “The morning after / my death”, followed by a short reading of her own work.

Bhanu Kapil, FRSL is a poet and the author of several full-length collections, most recently How To Wash A Heart (Liverpool University Press), which won the TS Eliot Prize and was a Poetry Book Society selection. Incubation: a space for monsters, a prose/hybrid work, will be published by Kelsey Street Press in Fall 2022, with new writing on performance and an accompanying essay by Eunsong Kim. An Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College (University of Cambridge), Kapil was elected in 2022 as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Other honors include a Windham-Campbell Prize from Yale University, and a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors (UK). Kapil taught for twenty years at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, and also maintained a private bodywork practice. Her body of work spans creative writing, performance, elder care, massage therapy, anti-colonial research, and teaching. At the University of Vermont, she has contributed to the Master's in Leadership for Sustainability as an affiliate, co-teaching modules with Sayra Pinto and Elena Georgiou. Since 2019, she has contributed to the development and piloting of a low-residency, practice-based PhD that focuses on leadership, creativity, and systems change.

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FEBRUARY 2 — Jennifer Bartlett leads a thinking-through/reading-through of “Report from Liberty Street” by Charles Bernstein followed by a short reading of her own work.

Jennifer Bartlett is the author of Autobiography/Anti-Autobiography (theenk Books, 2014), lullaby without any music (Chax Press, 2012), and Derivative of the Moving Image (University of New Mexico Press, 2007). She is co-founder and board member of Zoeglossia. Her forthcoming biography on Larry Eigner, Sustaining Air, will be published by the University of Alabama Press, July 2023.

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FEBRUARY 16 — Farnoosh Fathi leads a thinking-through/reading through Joan Murray's "Untitled I", followed by a short reading of her own work.

Farnoosh Fathi is the author of Great Guns (Canarium, 2013), editor of Joan Murray: Drafts, Fragments, and Poems (NYRB Poets, 2018) and founder of the Young Artists Language and Devotion Alliance (YALDA). She lives in New York and has taught at The Poetry Project, Poets House, Columbia University, Barnard College and Stanford Online High School.

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MARCH 2 — Lesle Lewis leads a thinking-through/reading-through of Joseph Ceravolo's "Drunken Winter" followed by a short reading of her own work.

Lesle Lewis’ collections include Small Boat (winner of the 2002 Iowa Poetry Prize), Landscapes I & II (Alice James Books, 2006), lie down too (Alice James Books, 2011), A Boot's a Boot (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2014), and Rainy Days on the Farm (Fence Books, 2019) Her chapbook, It's Rothko in Winter or Belgium was published by Factory Hollow Press in 2012. She has had poems appear in many journals including American Letters and Commentary, Northern New England Review, Hotel Amerika, Mississippi Review, The Cincinnati Review, Green Mountains Review, Barrow Street Mudfish, LIT, Pool, jubilat, notnostrums, and Sentence. She lives in New Hampshire.

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MARCH 16 — Major Jackson leads a group thinking-through of a poem (TBD) followed by a short reading of his own work.

Major Jackson is the author of A Beat Beyond: The Selected Prose of Major Jackson edited by Amor Kohli (Michigan: 2022) and five volumes of poetry, most recently, The Absurd Man (Norton: 2020). His edited volumes include Best American Poetry 2019 and Library of America’s Countee Cullen: Collected Poems. A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Major Jackson has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee where he is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He serves as the Poetry Editor of The Harvard Review.

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