June 4, 2014
7 pm
PAOLO JAVIER is the author of four poetry collections, including Court of the Dragon (Nightboat Books, forthcoming). The former Queens Poet Laureate, he edits and publishes the online journal 2nd Ave Poetry, and curates Queens Poet Lore, a roving poetry series set across the borough.
Jen Hofer is a Los Angeles-based poet, translator, social justice interpreter, teacher, knitter, book-maker, public letter-writer, urban cyclist, and co-founder with John Pluecker of the language justice and literary activism collaborative Antena. Her essays, translations and poetry are available from numerous small presses, including Action Books, Atelos, Kenning Editions, Insert Press, Les Figues Press, Litmus Press, LRL Textile Editions, Palm Press, Subpress, Ugly Duckling Presse, and in various DIY/DIT incarnations. Her visual-textual work can be found online at Alligatorzine, The Drunken Boat, and Public Access, and in Exhibit Hall 1 at the Center for Land Use Interpretation’s Wendover site.
Jill Magi is the author of LABOR, SLOT, Cadastral Map, and Threads. Her work has been published in The Brooklyn Rail, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Columbia Poetry Review, The Conversant, and the Contemporary Review of Fiction. Her visual works have been exhibited at The Center for Book Arts, Counterpath, apexart, the Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn. In 2010, Poets & Writers named Jill Magi as among the 50 most inspiring authors in the world. She has taught literature, writing, poetics, visual art and culture at The New School, Goddard College, The City University of New York, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Columbia College Chicago. In 2013 she joined the faculty at New York University in Abu Dhabi.
