Poetry Reading

An evening of poetry with four outstanding poets: two NYU faculty members and two relative newcomers.

Maeve Kinkead, writer and actor, has performed widely in theatre, film, and television. Her writing has appeared in Cortland Review, The New Yorker, Shadowgraph Magazine, Provincetown Arts, and Seventeen Magazine. A Dangling House is her first book of poems.

Annie Kim’s first poetry collection, Into the Cyclorama, won the Michael Waters Poetry Prize and was published in 2016 by the University of Southern Indiana. Kim works at the University of Virginia School of Law as the Assistant Dean for Public Service.

Kenneth Hart teaches writing at New York University, and is Poetry Editor of The Florida Review. He is the 2007 co-winner of the Allen Ginsberg Award, and the recipient of the 2008 editor’s prize for New Ohio Review. Hart’s book, Uh Oh Time was selected by Mark Jarman as winner of the 2007 Anhinga Prize for Poetry.

Michael Collins’ poems have received Pushcart Prize nominations and appeared in more than 70 journals and magazines. A full-length collection, Psalmandala, was published in 2014 and a second chapbook, Harbor Mandala, appeared in 2015. Collins teaches creative and expository writing at New York University.