Celebrate National Poetry Month with Us—April 27th Sunday Salon!
Join us on April 27th for a Sunday Salon celebrating National Poetry Month! This month, we’re featuring four amazing poets with both beloved and brand new collections full of heart, memory, and bold explorations of language and self. Their work explores grief, motherhood, identity, and the body, fueled by lyricism, humor, and political defiance. Come for the poetry, stay for the energy and the good vibes. And of course, DJ DubSix will be on the decks all night. At 5pm, Von Bar, 3 Bleecker St.
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor is a poet & visual artist born in Trinidad and raised in Queens, New York. She is the author of six collections of poetry which include Mama Phife Represents, a verse memoir about the life of her son, Hip Hop Legend, Malik “Phife Dawg” Taylor, which won the 2022 Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. Her most recent collection, The Limitless Heart: New and Selected Poems (1997-2022), recently won the 2024 Firecracker Award for poetry. Cheryl holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Stonecoast: The University of Southern Maine, and an MSW from Fordham University in NYC.
Jared Harél’s most recent poetry collection, Let Our Bodies Change the Subject (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2023), was selected by Kwame Dawes as the winner of the Prairie Schooner Raz/Shumaker Book Prize. Awarded the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from American Poetry Review as well as the William Matthews Prize from Asheville Poetry Review, his poems have recently appeared in such journals as 32 Poems, Electric Literature, Lit Hub, Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, Southern Review and The SUN. Jared teaches writing, plays drums, coaches basketball, and lives with his family in Westchester, NY. For more info, visit jaredharel.com
Robert Ostrom is the author of The Bear Wrestler (Saturnalia Books, 2025). His other books include Sandhour, Ritual and Bit, and The Youngest Butcher in Illinois. A professor of English at New York City College of Technology, Ostrom lives in Queens with his partner, two children, and two dogs.
Abi Pollokoff is a writer, editor, and book artist, and the author of night myths • • before the body (Red Hen Press, 2025). TriQuarterly nominated her work for a Pushcart, and her poems can also be found in such journals as The Pinch, The Seventh Wave, and Radar, where she was a finalist for the Coniston Prize. The recipient of the 2012 Anselle M. Larson/Academy of American Poets Prize, Abi has taught writing and poetry at the college level and is the former events manager for Open Books: A Poem Emporium. She now serves as the managing editor for Poetry NW Editions and works in publishing. Find her at abipollokoff.com.