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), from Hyperglossia (Hot Whiskey Press, 2008) and from Hart Island (Albion Books, 2009). 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
Arlo Quint
Quint is the author of Drawn In (Fewer & Further Press), 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. He coordinated the Project’s Talk Series for the 08-09 and 09-10 seasons.
Program Assistant
Nicole Wallace
Wallace is the author of the recently published, WHITE FLOWERS, a loose-leaf multi-media chapbook in an envelope. She edits and assembles IN THE KEY OF C MAGAZINE in Brooklyn and is currently working on her Master of Library Science at Queens College, CUNY. Part-time, she is one half of the musical two-piece GOAT. Her work has appeared in the Minetta Review, Portable Boog Reader 3, Ribald Crow Powder Magazine, and the Physical Poets Home Library Vol. 4.
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
Macgregor Card
Card is a poet, translator and bibliographer living in Queens. His first collection, Duties of an English Foreign Secretary, recently came out from Fence Books (December 2009). A new chapbook, The Archers, is forthcoming from Song Cave. With Andrew Maxwell he is co-editor of The Germ: A Journal of Poetic Research. He teaches poetry at Pratt Institute and is an associate editor of the MLA International Bibliography.
Wednesday Night Coordinator
Joanna Fuhrman
Fuhrman is the author of three collections of poetry published by Hanging Loose Press, Freud in Brooklyn (2000), Ugh Ugh Ocean (2003), and Moraine (2006.) Her fourth book Pageant won a Kinereth Gensler award and was published by Alice James Books in December 2009. For many years, she has taught poetry in public schools and libraries for Teachers & Writers Collaborative, the C.E.P.P. and Poets House. Currently, she teaches creative writing at Rutgers University and in New York City public schools.
Friday Night Coordinator
Brett Price
Price lives and writes in Brooklyn, NY. He is an editor of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, and Light Industrial Safety, and the author of Trouble With Mapping, a chapbook (Flying Guillotine, 2008).
Talk Series Coordinator
Michael Scharf
Scharf is the author of Telemachiad (sugarhigh!), Vérité (/ubu editions), and For Kid Rock / Total Freedom (Spectacular Books). His criticism appears regularly in sustainable aircraft, where he is contributing editor. Other critical pieces have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Boston Review, Coldfront, Design Observer, and EOAGH.
Bookkeeper
Stephen Rosenthal
Audio Technician
David Vogen
Archivist
Will Edmiston
Workshop Leaders (Fall 2010)
Sally Silvers, Karen Weiser, Akilah Oliver, Joel Lewis
Box Office Staff
Courtney Frederick, Kelly Ginger, Vanessa Garver
Interns
Nina Freeman
Volunteers
Jim Behrle, Elizabeth Block, Paco Cathcart, Stephanie Jo Elstro, 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, 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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