Events

14 Mar


Friday, March 14, 7:00pm
Brooklyn, NY

Make Room: A New Voices Salon with Courtney Bush, Imani Elizabeth Jackson & Cindy Juyoung Ok

Address

Poetry Society of America
119 Smith Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201

Free RSVP requested
RSVP


Courtney Bush is a writer and filmmaker from Mississippi. She is the author of Every Book Is About The Same Thing (Newest York Arts Press, 2022) and the National Poetry Series selection I Love Information (Milkweed Editions, 2023). Her third book, A Movie, is forthcoming in 2025 from Lavender Ink.

Imani Elizabeth Jackson
is the author of the chapbooks Context for arboreal exchanges (Belladonna*, 2023) and saltsitting (g l o s s, 2020), and, as mouthfeel, coauthor of Consider the tongue (Paper Machine, 2019) with S*an D. Henry-Smith. Flag, which received Futurepoem's 2020 Other Futures Award, is her first full-length collection.

Cindy Juyoung Ok
is the author of Ward Toward from the Yale Series of Younger Poets, translator of The Hell of That Star forthcoming from the Wesleyan Poetry Series, and an assistant professor in the UC Davis MFA. A former high school physics teacher, Ok won the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America and a Forward Prize in Poetry from the UK in 2024.

Upcoming Events