Project People
[Project Staff 2010-2011]
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 Boston Review, Bright Pink Mosquito, Satellite Telephone, Tight, Muthafucka, and The Brooklyn Rail. He coordinated the Project’s Talk Series for the 08-09 and 09-10 seasons. He has a new book coming out in 2012 with Skysill Press.
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. Her work has appeared in the Minetta Review, Portable Boog Reader 3, Ribald Crow Powder Magazine, and the Physical Poets Home Library Vol. 4.
Arts Management Consultant
Debora Ott
Debora Ott, Principal, Smart Solutions, is a writer and arts management consultant whose practice focuses on leadership succession, program and resource development and strategic planning. The founder of Just Buffalo Literary Center in Buffalo, NY, Debora founded the Literary Presenters Technical Assistance Program (LitTAP) to provide literary presenters and literary curators with the resources they need to succeed and survive. She has served as the Literature and Arts Education Program Manager at the Georgia Council for the Arts, and is the author of About Face – A Guide to Founder Transition, published by Bright Hill Press and the New York State Council on the Arts.
Newsletter Editor
Paul Foster Johnson
Johnson is the author of the poetry collections Study in Pavilions and Safe Rooms (2011), Refrains / Unworkings (2008), and Quadriga (2006), a chapbook he cowrote with E. Tracy Grinnell. From 2003 to 2006, he curated the Experiments and Disorders reading series at Dixon Place. He has served as a co-editor of Litmus Press/Aufgabe.
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
Stacy Szymaszek
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
Josef Kaplan
Kaplan co-edits Sustainable Aircraft, an online journal of mostly criticism on contemporary poetry, and Tea Party Republicans Press.
Bookkeeper
Stephen Rosenthal
Audio Technician
David Vogen
Videographer
Andrea Cruz
Archivist
Will Edmiston
Edmiston is a poet living in Brooklyn. He received his MLS with a certificate in Archives & Manuscript Management and Preservation from CUNY Queens College. He currently works as a librarian at an art & design library in Manhattan. His chapbook entitled effie (2011) was published by Three Sad Tigers Press. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Lungfull!, Bardic Sepulchral, American Books; Steck Editions and Poetry Time Anthology.
Workshop Leaders (Fall 2011)
Brendan Lorber, Tan Lin, Elinor Nauen, Anne Waldman & Ambrose Bye, Jo Ann Wasserman
Box Office Staff
Courtney Frederick, Vanessa Garver, Jeffrey Grunthaner
Interns
Nina Freeman, Julia Santoli, Alex Duringer
Volunteers
Jim Behrle, Christa Quint, Judah Rubin, Erica Wessmann, Susan Landers, Douglas Rothschild, Alex Abelson, James McDowell, Macauley Davis, Aria Boutet, Tony Iantosca, Jessie Wheeler, Elsa Asher, Ariel Bornstein
Board of Directors
Gillian McCain (President), Rosemary Carroll (Treasurer), Kimberly Lyons (Secretary), Todd Colby, Mónica de la Torre, Ted Greenwald, Tim Griffin, John S. Hall, Erica Hunt, Jonathan Morrill, Elinor Nauen, Evelyn Reilly, Christopher Stackhouse and Edwin Torres.
Friends Committee
Brooke Alexander, Dianne Benson, Will Creeley, 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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