*ONLINE: Yetzirah Reading Series: (5 pm ET) Kendra DeColo, Ava Winter, Jared Harel
Event info and registration link here.
Kendra DeColo is the author of three poetry collections including I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World (BOA, 2021) and co-author of the chapbooks Graffitied Heart with Ellen Bass, and Low Budget Movie with Tyler Mills. She recently curated Poem a Day for the Academy of American Poets, and has received awards and fellowships from MacDowell, Millay, Split This Rock, and a 2019 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.
Ava Nathaniel Winter is the author of Transgenesis (Milkweed Editions, 2024), a winner of the National Poetry Series. Her poetry has appeared in The Baffler, Beloit Poetry Journal, Poetry International, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. Ava holds an MFA From the Ohio State University and a PhD from the University of Nebraska—Lincoln, where she teaches in the Department of English and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. Learn more at www.avanwinter.com. Visit Ava’s profile in Yetzirah’s Discover Jewish Poets database.
Jared Harél is the author, most recently, of Let Our Bodies Change the Subject (University of Nebraska Press, 2023) which was selected by Kwame Dawes as the Winner of the Prairie Schooner Raz/Shumaker Book Prize in Poetry and was named a Finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize as well as the National Jewish Book Award. Jared teaches writing, plays drums, and lives in Westchester, NY with his wife and two kids. Website: jaredharel.com Visit Jared’s profile in Yetzirah’s Discover Jewish Poets database.
Poetry & Fiction Reading with Meghann Plunkett, Ilana Masad, and Ava Winter
Event details TBA.
Meghann Plunkett writes television (Station 19, Rebel) and various development projects including adapting the novel “First Lie Wins” for the screen. She also served as a Poetry Reader for The New Yorker from 2018-2020. She is the recipient of the 2017 Missouri Review’s Editors’ Prize as well as the 2017 Third Coast Poetry Prize. She was a finalist for Narrative Magazine’s 30 Below Contest, The North American Review’s Hearst Poetry Prize and Nimrod‘s Pablo Neruda Prize. She has been recognized by the Academy of American Poets in both 2016 and 2017. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in Best New Poets, Pleiades, Rattle, Washington Square Review and Poets.org, among others. Her chapbook What We Did to Her Made the Water Rise won the Fall 2023 Black River Chapbook Competition and is forthcoming in February 2025.
Ilana Masad is a fiction writer, essayist, and book critic whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Paris Review, NPR, BuzzFeed, Catapult, StoryQuarterly, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, as well as several others. All My Mother’s Lovers is Masad’s debut novel.
Ava Nathaniel Winter is the author of Transgenesis (Milkweed Editions, 2024), a winner of the National Poetry Series. Her poetry has appeared in The Baffler, Beloit Poetry Journal, Poetry International, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. Ava holds an MFA From the Ohio State University and a PhD from the University of Nebraska—Lincoln, where she teaches in the Department of English and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program.
Milkweed Editions 45th Anniversary Reading
POETS: Victoria Chang, Devon Walker-Figeroua, Yalie Saweda Kamara, Wayne Miller, K. Iver, Elizabeth Metzger, Sean Hill, Adam Clay, Nicky Beer, Chris Santiago, Lauren Russell, Sasha LaPointe, Brian Tierney, Weijia Pan, Sara Eliza Johnson, Ava Winter, Jessica Fisher, Rosalie Moffett, Rick Barot, Melissa Ginsburg & Claire Wamanholm
LOCATION: Night Gallery's Courtyard. The gallery will also be open so folks can move from the courtyard poetry reading space to the gallery to socialize and hang out!
TIME: 7-9 PM Pacific Time
Transgenesis Book Signing
I will be at the Milkweed Press table in the AWP Conference Bookfair signing copies of my book Transgenesis from 12:30-1:00pm Pacific Time. Milkweed will have copies of the book for sale. Come say hi!
Debut Poets in the Park: A Poetry Reading
Debut Poets in the Park: a poetry reading
Cost: Free-- books will be available to buy
Please come and hear debut poets read from their first books in a lovely outdoor setting walking distance from the Convention Center. Featuring: Ally Ang, Rachel Edelman, Raye Hendrix, Patrycja Humienik, Ae Hee Lee, Sara Daniela Rivera, Ava Winter, and Ayelet Amittay.
Health & Safety Information:
Reading will be outdoors in the sunlight to be protective against COVID. Thanks so much!
Contact: Ayelet Amittay
Contact Email: aamittay@gmail.com
Women Writers Talk Shame in the Classroom, Academia & Their Writing Lives
Women panelists discuss how they navigate feelings of shame as teachers, as functionaries in academic institutions, and as writers. How much of our performance and presentation in these spaces is shaped by shame? How complicit are institutional structures in shaming? What added dimensions of shame do marginalized folks experience in these spaces? How does shame affect the creative process? Can shame be a force for good in our work, or is it always destructive?
Speaker(s):
Moderator: Uche Okonkwo
Presenters: Tara Ballard, Alina Nguyen, Silvia Park, Ava Winter
Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center
Session Code: T244
“Transgenesis: A Literary Reading” with Ava Winter
From Lodz, Poland, to white suburban America, from the space shared by queer lovers to antique cabinets filled with Nazi memorabilia, from Talmudic depictions of genderqueer rabbis to archival lynching photos, Ava Winter’s poetry regards the tender and the difficult with equal gravity, commemorating the fraught gift of survival. Join us for a reading by a brilliant genderqueer Jewish poet and winner of the National Poetry Series.