Virtual Poetry Reading: Richard Hoffman, Wanda Phipps, and M.G. Stephens

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Richard Hoffman

Richard Hoffman has published four volumes of poetry, Without Paradise; Gold Star Road, winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and the Sheila Motton Award from The New England Poetry Club; Emblem; and Noon until Night, awarded the 2018 Massachusetts Book Award for Poetry. His other books include the memoirs Half the House and Love & Fury, and the story collection Interference and Other Stories. He is Senior Writer in Residence at Emerson College in Boston, and nonfiction editor at Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices.

Wanda Phipps

Wanda Phipps is a writer and translator. Her books include Field of Wanting: Poems of Desire and Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems. Her poetry has been translated into Ukrainian, Hungarian, Arabic, Galician and Bangla. She has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Theater Translation Fund, and others. As a founding member of Yara Arts Group she has collaborated on numerous theatrical productions presented in Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Siberia, and at La MaMa, E.T.C. in NYC. She’s curated reading series at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church and written about the arts for Boog City, Time Out New York, Paper Magazine, and others. Her new book is Mind Honey!

M. G. Stephens

M. G. Stephens (Michael Gregory Stephens) is the author of over twenty books, including the critically acclaimed novel The Brooklyn Book of the Dead; the travel memoir Lost in Seoul; the award-winning essay collection Green Dreams; and Hobo Haiku from Moonstone. His play Our Father ran on Theatre Row (42^nd Street in New York) for over five years. MadHat just published his book of prose poems and poetry about an out of work actor who lands the part of Hamlet and is called History of Theatre or the Glass of Fashion. Dispatches Editions is shortly going to publish his book about the origins of the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in the Bouwerie; entitled When Poetry Was the World: St. Mark’s, the East Village, the 1960s, and Beyond. Stephens earned a doctorate from the University of Essex (UK), researching and writing on the Poetry Project; an MFA in writing from Yale, with Derek Walcott his supervisor; and his BA and MA from the City University of New York (City College). He’s taught at Princeton, Columbia, and New York universities, and the University of London. After living in London for fifteen years, he now lives just north of Chicago.