Get Fresh Books Reading – Lynne McEniry, Mary Brancaccio, Christina Olivares & Yesenia Montilla

Join Get Fresh Books poets Lynne McEniry, Mary Brancaccio, and Christina Olivares, together with guest poet Yesenia Montilla for an amazing poetry reading on 3/22 at 7 pm.
Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/4564170866
Zoom meeting ID: 456 417 0866

Lynne McEniry is the author of some other wet landscape. Her poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and have been twice-recognized for the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award. They have been widely published in journals and anthologies, including Digging Through the Fat, , Talking River, Adanna, The Wide Shore, The Lake Rises Anthology, and most recently in The Divine Feminist Anthology and as an October feature for Split This Rock’s Poems of Persistence, Solidarity, and Refuge. Her poems have been used in collaboration with multi-media creative arts projects. Lynne shares her time collaborating on and curating poetry for various projects with ARTS By The People. Born in Yonkers, NY, Lynne earned her MFA in poetry at Drew University and lives in Morristown, NJ, where she also teaches writing and literature at Saint Elizabeth University.

Mary Brancaccio is a poet and a teacher. She has an MFA in Poetry from Drew University. Her work has been published in Minerva Rising, Naugatuck River Review, two international anthologies of poetry, and the Writing the Land: Northeast anthology, among others. Her chapbook, Mistress of Buttons and Keys, was a finalist in Minerva Rising’s contest, “Dare to Be.” Her first collection of poetry, Fierce Geometry, is forthcoming from Get Fresh Books.

Christina Olivares is also the author of No Map of the Earth Includes Stars, winner of the 2014 Marsh Hawk Press Book Prize, and the chaplet Interrupt (Belladonna* Collaborative, 2015). Olivares is the recipient of BRIO Nonfiction and Poetry Grants, a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Residency and two Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grants. In 2019, Olivares was an inaugural AAWW Witness Fellow. Her work has been published widely (most recently in Lincoln Center’s We Are The Work, in Aster(ix) and in The Rumpus) and has been republished by The Academy of American Poets. Olivares has most recently taught as a visiting professor at the Rutgers-Newark MFA poetry program and community-based workshops through the Bronx Council on the Arts. She earned her undergraduate degree at Amherst College in interdisciplinary studies in education and her MFA in poetry at CUNY Brooklyn College. She is an educator and administrator, a poverty and prison abolitionist, and a queer American-Cuban who is proud to be from the Bronx.

Yesenia Montilla is an Afro-Latina poet & a daughter of immigrants. She received her MFA from Drew University in Poetry & Poetry in translation. She is CantoMundo graduate fellow and a 2020 NYFA fellow. Her work has been published in Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast and is upcoming in Best of American Poetry 2020. Her first collection The Pink Box is published by Willow Books & was longlisted for a PEN award. Her second collection Muse Found in a Colonized Body is forthcoming from Four Way Books, 2022. She lives in Harlem, NY.