Brooklyn Poets Fall Intern Showcase

Join us at 144 Montague for our Fall Intern Showcase on Saturday, December 7 at 7 PM as interns from our fall cohort read their work! Readers will include Elle Kennedy Fell, Alex Nwigwe, Brooke Powers, Sophie Steinberg, Heaven Stith and Nicky Yeager. 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 5:30 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 PM. A Zoom link will be emailed to all ticket holders at approximately 5:30 PM and again when the readings begin at 7 PM. 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. 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

Elle Kennedy Fell (she/they) is a writer and DJ based in Brooklyn, New York. She holds a BA in Sociology and Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies from Hunter College. Over the past year, she has used poetry and prose to document her transition into womanhood, authoring the Substack blog “secrets from a trans girl (who has yet to see it all)”. Her work explores themes of trans identity; particularly womanhood, femininity, queerness and what it means to be alive. When she isn’t writing, she is inspiring friends and strangers to dance to her DJ mixes.

Alex Nwigwe is a writer, engineer, lover of a sweet lil bevs and hater of trucks without cabooses. She loves narratives that play with surrealism and poems that champion absurdism, often with themes of familial relationships, youth and diaspora.

Brooke Powers (she/her) is an artist originally from Central New Jersey. A multi-faceted Gemini, she can give TedTalks on the following subjects: the importance of intersectional feminism, herbal remedies, the Salem Witch Trials, the history of New York City, improv comedy and the Mothman. Her poems are spells, prayers and reflections on the work of staying soft in an increasingly harsh world. You can find her in a vintage nightgown, drinking tea and watching a show on the occult with her cat, Gene.

Sophie Steinberg is a Brooklyn-born writer and poet who recently returned to New York after spending time in the great cities of Los Angeles and Philadelphia. Her writing has been published in the Nation, Business Insider, IMPULSE Magazine and on the music blog “Passion of the Weiss.” Recently, her poetry has focused on themes of loss, power dynamics and being present. She finds inspiration in the ocean, cemeteries and her 13-year-old self.

Born in Brooklyn, Heaven Stith is constantly finding something new to explore, even if the exploration is all in their head. They have a habit of writing themselves into circles and they've been told that their "cerebral" content and lively reading style work well together, even with more macabre subjects. Their main focuses are the occult, writing, mental health and city life, and they hope to collect their work to share with the public.

Nicky Yeager is a journalist, poet and artist interested in place, dreamscapes, identity as relational and ways of seeing. Nicky’s work can be found in the Texas Observer, Brooklyn Rail, Cleveland Review of Books and New Note Poetry.

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.

Interim Director r kay: kay@brooklynpoets.org
Board Director Emily Blair: emiblair@gmail.com
Board Director Miller Oberman: miller.oberman@gmail.com