Brooklyn Poets Summer Intern Showcase

Join us at 144 Montague for our Summer Intern Showcase on Saturday, August 10, at 7 PM as interns from our summer cohort read their work! Readers will include Abigail Clark, moon đặng, Lena Kassin, Ellen Rogers, María Elisa Schmidt and Selena Spier. Free and open to the public, the event will also be livestreamed via Zoom. Doors will open at 6:30 PM for a wine reception for in-person guests.

Advance online registration for in-person attendance will end at 5 PM on the day of the event. After that, tickets for in-person attendance can be purchased at the door until we reach capacity; tickets for virtual attendance will be available until the start of the readings at 7:00 PM. A Zoom link will be emailed to all ticket holders. Closed captions will be available for the event through the Zoom livestream. For more information and to request additional accommodations, contact us at bkp@brooklynpoets.org. Note that by participating, you agree to abide by our code of conduct and COVID-19 policy below. All in-person attendees are required to wear masks (regardless of vaccination status) except readers at a safe distance on stage, and we will have masks available. Brooklyn Poets reserves the right to dismiss from our programs any participant found to be in violation of these policies. Thank you for respecting our community. 

Featuring

Abigail Clark is a rising senior at Haverford College. She is from Los Angeles. She is currently studying English and her work has been featured in the Coterie, a poetry magazine at her school. Her poetry is inspired by the bond between her siblings, the aching nostalgia of growing up, and the ocean.

moon đặng (he/him) is a transmasc Vietnamese poet & student studying decolonial theory, philosophy, & gender. his current obsessions include the mysticism of the color blue, dreams, God, & the dissolution of bodily boundaries. he writes from the body—bridging sociopolitical dimensions that shape the way his body moves. he has faith in the inevitable birth of a better world.

Lena Kassin is a writer living in New York, where they were born and raised. They hold a BA in Psychology from Reed College, where their work was published in the Reed College Creative Review. In their poetry, Lena often writes about guilt, desire, and the nuances of interpersonal relationships. You can find them walking.

Ellen Rogers is a poet originally from Denver, Colorado, currently residing in Yonkers, New York. He is a rising junior at Sarah Lawrence College, where they are editor of Love and Squalor and studying poetry, literature, and queer theory. He has found himself writing a lot of love poems in the past year or so, but also frequently writes about gender/identity, home, and food. They are especially fond of a long title. When they aren’t writing, you may find them planning drag looks/numbers or rearranging his collection of dolls.

María Elisa Schmidt is a Mexican bilingual writer, translator and educator with an MFA in Poetry from The New School. Her poetry, fiction and nonfiction have appeared in renowned magazines in Mexico, and she was editor-in-chief of C de Cultura, a Mexican magazine, for seven years. She has experience teaching Creative Writing to kids and has volunteered as a literacy teacher for Read 718 in Bed-Stuy. One of her biggest dreams is to launch a Creative Writing school in Mexico City, her beloved hometown!

Selena Spier (she/her) is a graduate student at Columbia University. She loves sestinas, well-placed caesuras, poems that delay and/or withhold sonic gratification, poems that exploit the myriad inconsistencies of language, and—occasionally—prose poems. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Sixfold, New York Quarterly and the Threepenny Review.

COVID-19 Policy

Effective 2024, all event attendees are required to wear masks due to the current prevalence of cases in NYC. Masks will be available at the door.

The current metrics available, including NYC wastewater data and the CDC’s Respiratory Virus Activity Levels, both indicate high levels of COVID and other illnesses. While your personal risk tolerance may vary, the unmitigated spread of COVID and other respiratory illnesses disproportionately affects the most vulnerable in our community—including those who are immunocompromised or don’t have the privilege of paid sick days to heal and recover. We hope you’ll join us in taking the actions we can to make our space welcoming to all and to keep each other safe. Please stay home if you are experiencing symptoms, have a positive COVID test or someone close to you has recently tested positive.

We strongly encourage daytime visitors and workshop attendees to wear masks. Workshop instructors may choose to enforce a more stringent policy at their own discretion. Additionally, workshop participants may be required to wear masks as an accessibility accommodation for other participants.

While we do our best, Brooklyn Poets cannot guarantee zero risk. A risk of exposure to COVID-19 exists in all public settings. By entering the building, students, teachers and other attendees accept the risk of exposure and knowingly waive and release Brooklyn Poets from any liability related to COVID-19.

Brooklyn Poets Code of Conduct

Brooklyn Poets will not tolerate any instances of discrimination, harassment or abuse in conjunction with any of our programs. Respect and consideration for others, both within and outside our programs, are core values to be upheld by all participants. Discrimination against and/or harassment of community members on the basis of race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, national origin, religion, age, marital status, veteran status or any other factor is unacceptable and will not be tolerated. Program participants are expected to adhere to all federal, state and local laws and regulations. Should a board or staff member, independent contractor, volunteer or program participant be found to violate any aspect of the organization’s code of conduct, Brooklyn Poets reserves the right to dismiss them from the program. Consequences may include, but not be limited to, dismissal from the current activity, suspension, ineligibility for all future activities, and/or loss of payment or fees. If you have any issues to report, please do not hesitate to contact anyone on our Conduct Committee and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.

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Board Director Emily Blair: emiblair@gmail.com
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