Get Fresh Books Reading – Malik Abduh, Gail Langstroth & Sheila Maldonado

Join Get Fresh Books poets Malik Abduh and Gail Langstroth, together with guest poet Sheila Maldonado for an amazing poetry reading on 3/26 at 7 pm.
Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/4564170866
Zoom meeting ID: 456 417 0866

Malik Abduh is a poet & essayist. He earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Rutgers University-Camden, where he received the 2008 Rutgers University Alumni Association Writing Award. His work appears in several journals & magazines including Southern Indiana Review, Four Way Review, Exit 7, Slush, & Some Call it Ballin’ Magazine. He currently teaches English at Rowan College at Burlington County. His debut collection, All the Stars Aflame, is forthcoming from Get Fresh Books Publishing.

Langstroth is a tri-lingual lecturer, international eurythmy performer, poet and film artist. She is poetry editor for Cyte Magazin, a European art journal. The Patricia Dobler Poetry Prize, 2011, finalist Accents Chapbook Competition, the Jeffster Award, 2014, and finalist in the Tupelo Press poetry in the pandemic contest, 2020, account for some of her literary achievements. Her duo-language manuscript firegarden / jardín-de-fuego, was released by Get Fresh Books 2020. Performances of selected poems out of the book are scheduled to be showcased in European festivals: Vienna, Hamburg, Bonn and Berlin (2021).

Sheila Maldonado is the author of the poetry collections that’s what you get (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2021) and one-bedroom solo (Fly by Night Press / A Gathering of the Tribes, 2011). She is a CantoMundo fellow and a Creative Capital awardee as part of desveladas, a visual writing collective. She teaches English for the City University of New York. She was born in Brooklyn, raised in Coney Island, the daughter of Armando and Vilma of El Progreso, Yoro, Honduras. She lives in El Alto Manhattan.