Excited to have a poem, “[G]olden Circe Sips Her Coffee”, included in the 2021 edition of the QUEENSBOUND collaborative audio project, curated by the wonderful KC Trommer. It corresponds to my subway stop, 30th Avenue in Astoria on the N/W line and you can hear me read it on SoundCloud. It’s a diverse and eclectic playlist of poets!
From the press release:
QUEENSBOUND 2021! In honor of #NationalPoetryMonth, the audio poetry project QUEENSBOUND is pleased to release our 2021 edition.
QUEENSBOUND welcomes new contributors to the project: Philip F. Clark, Noelle de la Paz, Matthew Hittinger, Marcia B. Loughran, Jimena Lucero, Yasmin Majeed, Nadia Misir, Shams A. Momin, Richard Jeffrey Newman, Nikay Paredes, Bino A. Realuyo, and Spencer Reece.
QUEENSBOUND 2021 has expanded to include the work of 44 contributors in total, drawing from Queens’ many diverse communities and featuring poems from every corner of the borough.
The 2021 edition celebrates and reflects on Queens during the pandemic, reaching the beaches of the Rockaways, the coffee shops of Astoria, the quiet skies above JFK, and the streets of Jackson Heights as they fill again with language and with carts piled with mango slices in Ziplocks.
See the map and the station stop to which each poem corresponds by visiting QUEENSBOUND.com.