Board of Directors
Ricardo Alberto Maldonado (Chair), DéLana R.A. Dameron (Vice Chair), Molly B. Gross (Secretary), Deepali Gupta, Vincent Katz, Fred Moten
Ricardo Alberto Maldonado (Chair), DéLana R.A. Dameron (Vice Chair), Molly B. Gross (Secretary), Deepali Gupta, Vincent Katz, Fred Moten
Anna Cataldo is a musician and writer alive in New York.
As Assistant Director of Event Production, Anna guides communication between performers, curators, and the Poetry Project team to facilitate interdisciplinary events and incorporate accessibility efforts into programming.
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Will Farris is a poet and yoga teacher living in New York City.
As Communications Director, Will develops and oversees the messaging of The Poetry Project and promotion of its readings, events, publications, and other programming.
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Kay Gabriel is the author of Kissing Other People or the House of Fame (Rosa Press, 2021) and A Queen in Bucks County (Nightboat, 2022). With Andrea Abi-Karam, she co-edited We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics.
As Editorial Director, Kay oversees publication of the Poetry Project Newsletter, The Recluse and the Project's other publications, and helps people engage with the Project's archival materials and recordings.
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Laura Henriksen’s first book, Laura’s Desires, is forthcoming from Nightboat. She is the author of several chapbooks, and her writing can be found in The Brooklyn Rail, P-Queue, Foundry, Shit Wonder, and other places. She received her BFA in poetry from Pratt, and her Masters in American Studies and Gender Studies at CUNY Graduate Center.
As the Program Director, Laura Henriksen helps to facilitate the collective curation of The Poetry Project's readings and events, learning programming, and fellowships.
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Roberto Montes is the author of I DON'T KNOW DO YOU, named one of the Best Books of 2014 by NPR and a finalist for the 2014 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry from The Publishing Triangle. His poetry has appeared in The Lambda Literary Spotlight, Guernica, PEN America Poetry Series, and elsewhere. A chapbook, GRIEVANCES, is now available from the Atlas Review TAR chapbook series.
As Associate Director of Operations, Roberto designs and manages The Poetry Project's operational systems, workflows, and databases.
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Nicole Wallace’s first chapbook, WAASAMOWIN, was published by IMP in 2019. Most recently, Nicole was the June/July 2020 poetry micro-resident at Running Dog and a 2019 Poets House Emerging Poets Fellow. Recent poetry can be read in print in Survivance: Indigenous Poesis Vol. IV Zine and online at Running Dog, A Perfect Vacuum, and LitHub. Nicole received a BA from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study and a Masters of Library Science in Archives and Preservation of Cultural Materials from Queens College, CUNY.
As Interim Executive Director, Nicole works in collaboration with the full staff and Board of Directors to guide decision making around The Poetry Project's programming, funding, and operations to ensure that our work is aligned with our mission. In collaboration with the Associate Director of Operations, Nicole manages The Poetry Project's operations and finances. They also oversee the management and development of grants, and serve as a grant writer for the Project.
Editors emeriti: Bianca Messinger (2022-2023), Imani Elizabeth Jackson (2019–2020; 2022), Wendy Trevino (2019–2020), John Rufo (2019–2021), Marwa Helal (2017–2019), Betsy Fagin (2015–2017), Ted Dodson (2013–2015), Paul Foster Johnson (2011–2013), Corinna Copp (2009–2011), John Coletti (2007–2009), Brendan Lorber (2005–2007), Marcella Durand (2003–2005), Nada Gordon & Gary Sullivan (2002–2003), Ange Mlinko (2000–2002), Katherine Lederer (1999–2000), Brenda Coultas & Eleni Sikelianos (1998–1999), Lisa Jarnot (1996–1998), Mitch Highfill (1995–1996), Gillian McCain (1994–1995), Jordan Davis (1992–1994), Lynn Crawford (1991–1992), Jerome Sala (1990–1991), Tony Towle (1987–1990), Jessica Hagedorn (1986–1987), James Ruggia (1985–1986), Tim Dlugos (1984–1985), Lorna Smedman (1983–1984), Greg Masters (1980–1983), Vicki Hudspith (1978–1980), Frances LeFevre (1977–1978), Ted Greenwald (1975–1977), Bill MacKay (1973–1975), Ron Padgett (1972–1973)
Dianne Benson, Will Creeley, Raymond Foye, Vicki Hudspith, Siri Hustvedt, Yvonne Jacquette, Gillian McCain, Eileen Myles, Patricia Spears Jones, Michel de Konkoly Thege, Greg Masters, Ron Padgett, Bob Holman, Paul Slovak, Edwin Torres, John Yau, & Anne Waldman
in memoriam: Brooke Alexander, Michael Friedman, Steve Hamilton, Hal Willner