Project People
Artistic Director
Stacy Szymaszek
Szymaszek was born and raised in Milwaukee, WI. From 1999 to 2005, she was the Literary Program Manager for the nonprofit literary organization Woodland Pattern Book Center. In 2005 she moved to New York to serve as Program Coordinator at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church. In 2006-07, she served as Monday Night Reading Coordinator. She became Artistic Director in 2007. She is the author of the chapbooks Mutual Aid (gong press, 2004), Some Mariners (Etherdome, 2004), There Were Hostilities (repair, 2005), Pasolini Poems (Cy Press, 2005), from Hyperglossia (Belladonna Books, 2005), Stacy S: Autoportraits (OMG! Press, 2008), Orizaba: A Voyage with Hart Crane (Faux Chaps, 2008) and from Hyperglossia (Hot Whiskey Press, 2008). Her first full-length book, Emptied of All Ships, was published in 2005 and her second book Hyperglossia in 2009, both with Litmus Press.
Program Coordinator
Corrine Fitzpatrick
Fitzpatrick is the author of two chapbooks – Zamboangueña (sona books) and on melody dispatch (Goodbye Better). Recent work can be found in Denver Quarterly, Tight and Puppyflowers. From 2005-07 she served as Program Assistant, and from 2006-08 was Friday Night Coordinator. She is in the MFA program at the Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts, Bard College.
Program Assistant
Arlo Quint
Quint is the author of Hospitality in the Forest (Rust Buckle Books), Photogenic Memory (Lame House), and Days on End (Open 24 Hours). His work has recently appeared in Satellite Telephone, Tight, Muthafucka, and The Brooklyn Rail.
Newsletter Editor
Corina Copp
Copp hails from Kansas and Colorado, and has lived almost as well in Louisiana and Tennessee. Recent work has appeared in Aufgabe, ON Contemporary Practice, Antennae, Puppy Flowers, 6×6, Denver Quarterly, Poets on Painters, and elsewhere. A staged reading of her performance text, “OK (Office Killer)” was produced in Dec. 2008 by Theatreworks at NYCCT/Voorhees Theater; and her play “A Week of Kindness” appeared in the 2007 Tiny Theater Festival at the Ontological-Hysteric Incubator/Brick Theater. She is the author of the e-book Carpeted (Faux Press 2004), and chapbooks Play Air (Belladonna* 2005) and Sometimes Inspired by Marguerite (Open 24 Hours 2003). Formerly the Program Assistant (2003–05) and Monday Night Reading Series Coordinator (2004–06) at The Poetry Project, she is currently studying playwriting with Mac Wellman at CUNY-Brooklyn College.
Monday Night Coordinator
Dustin Williamson
Williamson is the author of the chapbooks Exhausted Grunts (Cannibal Books), Cab Ass’n (Lame House), Gorilla Dust (Open 24 Hours), and Heavy Panda (GoodbyeBetter). Recent work has appeared in Tight.
Wednesday Night Coordinator
Stacy Szymaszek
Friday Night Coordinators
Nicole Wallace & Edward Hopely
Wallace edits To the Tune of Ignu in the Key of C, a magazine of poetry and poems. Her work has also appeared in The Portable Bog Reader & The Minetta Review. Currently, she is collaborating with visual artist Angelo Monaco on an historical-based collection of poems & other multi-media ephemera due out fall 2009.
Hopely is the author of chapbooks such as Rabbit on their way to the Capital and SHIp Treasure, and has written, with J. Gordon Faylor, the book for two readers Tremblies. His writing has appeared in They Are Flying Planes, mid)rib, Sustainable Aircraft, Ceptuetics, filling Station, and others; he edits NAP magazine via TREES+SQUASH, and a forthcoming issue of Physical Poets.
Talk Series Coordinator
Arlo Quint
Bookkeeper
Stephen Rosenthal
Audio Technician
David Vogen
Audio Consultant
Dave Nolan
Archivist
Will Edmiston
Development Consultant
Stephanie Gray
Workshop Leaders
Vito Acconci & Mitch Highfill
Box Office Staff
Courtney Frederick, Kelly Ginger, Nicole Wallace
Interns
Sara Akant, Nina Freeman, Jason Jiang
Volunteers
Jim Behrle, Elizabeth Block, Paco Cathcart, Vanessa Garver, Diana Hamilton, Ivy Johnson, Erica Kaufman, Christine Kelly, Derek Kroessler, Ace McNamara, Nicholas Morrow, Christa Quint, Judah Rubin, Lauren Russell, Thomas Seeley, Logan Strenchock, Erica Wessmann, Alice Whitwham
Mascot
Miles Champion
Board of Directors
Greg Fuchs (President), Rosemary Carroll (Treasurer), Kimberly Lyons (Secretary), Todd Colby, Will Creeley, Jordan Davis, Mónica de la Torre, Ted Greenwald, Tim Griffin, John S. Hall, Gillian McCain, Jonathan Morrill, Elinor Nauen, Evelyn Reilly, Christopher Stackhouse and Edwin Torres.
Friends Committee
Brooke Alexander, Dianne Benson, Raymond Foye, Michael Friedman, Steve Hamilton, Viki Hudspith, Siri Hustvedt, Yvonne Jacquette, Eileen Myles, Patricia Spears Jones, Michel de Konkoly Thege, Greg Masters, Ron Padgett, Bob Holman, Paul Slovak, John Yau, Anne Waldman and Hal Willner.
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