In conjunction with Simone Kearney’s Criersclosing week, we invite you to join us in a poetry reading night with beautiful poets: Candystore, Samantha Zighelboim, and Jennifer Firestone!!
Come by!
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CANDYSTORE
Candystore is a poet, interdisciplinary artist, and performer living in Brooklyn. Shimher debut book of poetry, Hi Angels, was published in 2019 and made possible by a grant from Printed Matter through the Shannon Michael Cane Memorial Fund. Candystore is currently working on a 154-poem collection about color called Cray Cray Oo La La.
/Illustrated from original photo of Jonathan Grassi
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SAMANTHA ZIGHELBOIM
Samantha Zighelboim is the author of The Fat Sonnets (Argos Books, 2018), and the translator of Equestrian Monuments by Luis Chaves (After Hours Editions, 2022). She is a 2017 NYFA/NYSCA Fellow in Poetry, a recipient of a Face Out grant from CLMP, and the recipient of the 2016 John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize in Translation from The Poetry Foundation. Her poems, translations and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in POETRY, Boston Review, Lit Hub,The Guardian, and Guernica, among others. Samantha lives in New York City with her cats, Babette and Orca. She teaches creative writing at Columbia University and Parsons School of Design at The New School.
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JENNIFER FIRESTONE
Jennifer Firestone is the author of five books of poetry and four chapbooks including Story (UDP), Ten, (BlazeVOX [books]), Gates & Fields (Belladonna* Collaborative), Swimming Pool (DoubleCross Press), Flashes (Shearsman Books), Holiday (Shearsman Books), Waves (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), from Flashes and snapshot (Sona Books) and Fanimaly (Dusie Kollektiv). She co-edited (with Dana Teen Lomax) Letters To Poets: Conversations about Poetics, Politics and Community (Saturnalia Books) and is collaborating with Marcella Durand on a book about Feminist Avant-garde Poetics. Firestone has work anthologized in Kindergarde: Avant-Garde Poems, Plays, Songs, & Stories for Children and Building is a Process / Light is an Element: essays and excursions for Myung Mi Kim. She won the 2014 Marsh Hawk Press’ Robert Creeley Memorial Prize. Firestone is an Associate Professor of Literary Studies at the New School’s Eugene Lang College and is also the Director of their Academic Fellows pedagogy program.
