DADA

No, Dear aims to bring together the voices of New York City poets who might not otherwise be in dialogue: both emerging and established poets from diverse backgrounds who are living and writing in New York City’s five boroughs. We aspire to disrupt a field that has historically privileged white patriarchal perspectives by building a publication and communal/critical dialogue that strives to be largely representative of women-identified poets, and poets of color and of all gender expressions.

The night will feature the following six readers invited by No Dear: Kate Ehrenberg, Heather Glynis , Tangie Mitchell , Mundo Rivera , Cydni Thompson, & Cat Wei.

Kate Ehrenberg: is a poet, nursery school teacher, and ambivalent lifelong New Yorker. Her work has appeared in Commo Magazine, Spectra, No, Dear, and others.

Heather Glynis: is a poet, performer, and transsexual-about-town from New Jersey. She works at the Poetry Project and lives in Bushwick.

Tangie Mitchell (she/her): is a poet, editor and storyteller from North Carolina. Her work centers personal and collective histories of the Black American South and has been featured in Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora, Poetry Wales, Berlin Lit, Mosaic and more. A Watering Hole Poetry Fellow, a Poetry Project Emerge-Surface-Be Fellow, and an alum of the UK-based Obsidian Foundation, her work has earned Best of The Net and Robert Siegel Prize nominations and has received support from the Cave Canem Foundation, The Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, Sundress Academy of the Arts, and other arts institutions. She lives in Brooklyn with her collection of 70’s and 80’s funk and soul memorabilia.

Mundo Rivera: is a Nuyorican writer and educator born and raised in East Harlem. His poems have been published in print and online publications, including No, Dear, The Acentos Review, Palabra and PoetsArtists, which showcases poems paired with art. He was a 4-time regional workshop participant at Cave Canem and has attended artist-in-residence programs at Fundación Valparaiso in Mojacar, Espanaña and La Napoule Art Foundation near Cannes. This year, he was awarded the Rosenthal Archives Fellowship in the Special Collections Department at CUNY Queens College. He has been teaching in New York City’s public schools for over 20 years and resides in Astoria, Queens.

Cydni Thompson (she/her): is a poet from Jamaica, Queens. She writes about God, work, women, and everything else. She’s an MFA students at Queen's College. Her work can be found in Bear Review, trampset, and No, Dear Magazine (of course!).

Cat Wei: is a poet and writer in New York. Her work is Best of the Net nominated and appears in The Slowdown, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, and Gulf Coast among others. A Bread Loaf Katharine Bakeless Nason Contributor Award recipient and a Tin House Summer Workshop alumn, she has received support from the Edith Wharton Writers-in-Residence Program, Vermont Studio Center, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Sundress Academy for the Arts.