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SUMMARY:Chicago in New York
DESCRIPTION:  \nThis reading brings together five poets from Chicago and the Midwest who currently find themselves in New York. Readers include Cortney Lamar Charleston\, H. Melt\, Angel Nafis\, José Olivarez\, and Diamond Sharp. \n  \n  \n \nCortney Lamar Charleston lives in Jersey City\, NJ but originates from South Holland\, IL. He is an alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania’s performance poetry collective\, The Excelano Project\, and a founder of BLACK PANTONE\, an inclusive digital cataloging of black identity. His poetry has appeared\, or is forthcoming\, in Rattle\, Beloit Poetry Journal\, Eleven Eleven\, Folio\, The Normal School\, Chiron Review\, J Journal\, Kweli Journal\, Winter Tangerine Review\, CURA: A Literary Magazine of Art & Action and elsewhere. He has received nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. \n\n\n\n\nH. Melt is a poet and artist who was born in Chicago. Their work proudly documents Chicago’s queer and trans communities. Their writing has been published by Chicago Artist Writers\, Lambda Literary\, and Them\, the first trans literary journal in the United States. It is also forthcoming in the anthology Writing the Walls Down. They are the author of SIRvival in the Second City: Transqueer Chicago Poems and work at the Poetry Foundation. Find more about them at hmeltchicago.com.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAngel Nafis is a Cave Canem Fellow. Her work has appeared in The Rattling Wall\, Union Station Magazine\, MUZZLE Magazine\, Mosaic Magazine and Poetry Magazine. She is an Urban Word NYC Mentor and the founder\, curator\, and host of the quarterly Greenlight Bookstore Poetry Salon reading series. She is the author of BlackGirl Mansion (Red Beard Press/ New School Poetics\, 2012) Facilitating generative writing workshops and reading poems across the United States and Canada\, she lives in Brooklyn.\n  \n  \n \nJosé Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants. Originally from Calumet City\, IL\, he lives in the Bronx. He is a graduate of Harvard University\, the Poet-Linc Manager for Lincoln Center Education\, and he is an editor at Painted Bride Quarterly. He has performed and taught at high schools\, universities\, and book festivals across the country\, and his work has been published or is forthcoming inThe BreakBeat Poets\, The Acentos Review\, Specter Magazine\, Side B Magazine\, Union Station Magazine\, and Luna Luna Magazine among other places. His work has also been featured on Yahoo’s Ball Don’t Lie basketball blog\, Chicago Public Radio\, and on Mass Poetry’s PoeTry on the T program. His first book\, Home Court\, is available at https://homecourtpoems.tumblr.com/purchase. \n\n\n\n\n\nDiamond Sharp spends her days being alive\, black\, and missing Chicago. You can read her writing in PANK\, Fjords\, Doll Hospital Journal and others.\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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