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On August 13, the Bryant Park Reading Room (curated by Jason Schneiderman) will feature poets Rita Banerjee, Kate Gale, Erika Meitner, and Jason Schneiderman for a reading from 6:00-7:00 pm EDT.

If you are available in NYC, please stop by, and learn more about the August 13 Bryant Park Reading Room reading here. Books by authors will be available for purchase via Kinokuniya.

Featured Authors:

Rita Banerjee is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She is author of Disobedient Futures, CREDO: An Anthology of Manifestos and Sourcebook for Creative Writing, Echo in Four Beats, the novella “A Night with Kali” in Approaching Footsteps, and Cracklers at Night. She received her doctorate in Comparative Literature from Harvard and her MFA from the University of Washington. Her work appears in Hunger Mountain, Isele, Nat. Brut., Poets & Writers, Academy of American Poets, Los Angeles Review of Books, Vermont Public Radio, and elsewhere. She received a VAC Creation Grant for her new memoir and manifesto on female cool, and one of the opening chapters of this memoir, “Birth of Cool” was a Notable Essay in the 2020 Best American Essays, and another chapter, “The Female Gaze,” was a Notable Essay in the 2023 Best American Essays.

Dr. Kate Gale is co-founder and publisher of Red Hen Press. She is the author of Under a Neon Sun from Three Rooms Press and The Loneliest Girl from the University of New Mexico Press and of seven books of poetry including The Goldilocks Zone and six librettos including Rio de Sangre, a libretto for an opera with composer Don Davis, which had its world premiere at the Florentine Opera in Milwaukee.  Her opera on Esther was written for the singer Hila Plitmann and is in process with the composer Mark Abel. 

Erika Meitner is the author of six books of poems, including Useful Junk (BOA Editions, 2022), and Holy Moly Carry Me (BOA Editions, 2018)–winner of the 2018 National Jewish Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. Her poems have been published most recently in Electric Literature, Oxford American, The New Yorker, Orion, The New Republic, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Rumpus. Meitner is currently a professor of English and MFA program director at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Jason Schneiderman is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Hold Me Tight (Red Hen, 2020), and including the forthcoming Self Portrait of Icarus as a Country on Fire (Red Hen, 2024). He edited the anthology Queer: A Reader for Writers (Oxford UP 2016). His poems and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. His awards include the Emily Dickinson Award, the Shestack Award and a Fulbright Fellowship. He is longtime co-host of the podcast Painted Bride Quarterly Slush Pile and a guest host for The Slowdown. He is Professor of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College and teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.