On Sunday, September 1 at 6PM, we are thrilled to host poets Alex Cuff, Kendra Sullivan, and Lisa Rogal, who will read from recently published books and works in progress. Hosted by Iris Cushing. Join us!

Alex Cuff is a middle-aged femme learning to metabolize grief into a presence that keeps her in relationship to herself and community. A public school educator, and co-founding editor of the Brooklyn-based poetry magazine No, Dear, she is the author of Family, a Natural Wonder (Reality Beach) and I Try Out A Sentence to See Whether I Believe (Ghost Proposal). Her first full-length collection, Common Amnesias, was published by Ugly Duckling Presse this spring. She lives in Flatbush, Lenapehoking, with her partner, and feline extended family: Karl, Kuma and Medb.

Kendra Sullivan is a poet, a public artist, and an activist scholar. She is Director of the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she led the Andrew W. Mellon Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research from 2014-2024. Sullivan is a co-director of the NYC Climate Justice Hub, the publisher of Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, and a co-editorial director of Women’s Studies Quarterly. Kendra has produced public art addressing water access and equity issues in cities around the world and has published her writing on art, ecology, and engagement widely. She is the co-founder of the Sunview Luncheonette, a cooperative arts venue in Greenpoint, Brooklyn; and a member of Mare Liberum, an eco-art collective. Her books include Zero Point Dream Poems (Doublecross Press) and Reps (Ugly Duckling Presse).
Lisa Rogal is a poet and fiction writer living in Brooklyn, NY. She is the author of la belle indifference (Cuneiform Press, 2020), Feed Me Weird Things (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018), Morning Ritual (United Artists Books, 2015), and The New Realities (Third Floor Apartment Press, 2014). Her recent writing has been published in The Recluse, Poems by Sunday, Elderly, and Visceral Brooklyn. Lisa is a graduate of the MFA program at Long Island University, Brooklyn.