Reverie End-of-Semester Poetry Reading

Join students from the CUNY Graduate Center Comparative Literature and English departments for a joint end-of-semester poetry reading at Molasses Books (770 Hart St, Brooklyn). Featuring Yagiz Ay, Giacomo Bianchino, Jared Daniel Fagen, Benjamin Krusling, Addy Malinowski, Nicodemus Nicoludis, Mia X. Pérez, and Rebecca Teich. Hosted by Alexander Soria-Terkin.

Yagiz Ay is a PhD student in English at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Giacomo Bianchino recently completed his PhD in Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center. His work centers on the relationship between poetry and politics, particularly in the modernist attempts to construct a new “epic” poem. He is also a labor organizer, a freelance journalist, and a writer.

Jared Daniel Fagen is the author of The Animal of Existence (Black Square Editions, 2022). His work has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Fence, Lana Turner, Asymptote, and elsewhere. He is the editor and publisher of Black Sun Lit, a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center, and teaches at Columbia University School of the Arts and the City College of New York. He lives in Brooklyn and the western Catskills of New York.

Benjamin Krusling is the author of a chapbook GRAPES (Projective Industries) and a book, GLARING (Wendy’s Subway). Work has appeared in Folder Magazine, The Volta, Omniverse, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn and is a PhD student in English at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Addy Malinowski is a poet, musician, and educator from Southeast Michigan currently living in Brooklyn, NY. They are a PhD student in English at the CUNY Graduate Center and hold an MA in Creative Writing from Eastern Michigan University. Addy is the author of From a Halogen Sea and teaches writing at Brooklyn College.

Nicodemus Nicoludis is a poet and PhD student in English at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he studies poetry, energy, critical theory, and ecocriticism. He is the author of Multicene (Arteidolia Press, 2023) and co-founder/managing editor of Archway Editions.

Mia X. Pérez is a writer from Seattle, Washington. Their works have appeared or are forthcoming in The Brooklyn Review, Raw Art Review, AGON Journal, and Milk Press, among other publications. They are a PhD student in Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Rebecca Teich is a writer, curator, and PhD student in English at the CUNY Graduate Center. Teich is the recipient of the 2023 Graduate Student Paper Award from the CLAGS and is a 2023 and 2024 archival research fellow through the Lost & Found Archival Research Grant. Currently the co-curator of Desperate Living Reading Series with Ry Dunn, Teich curated the Fall 2018 and 2019 Segue Reading Series, and was Artists Space’s teaching-poet-in-residence 2019–2021. Teich’s writing has been featured in The Kitchen Magazine, Peach Magazine’s Invitation to Form: Epic Mix, BOMB Magazine, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Poetry Project Newsletter, and elsewhere. Teich’s first chapbook, Caffeine Chronicles (2021), was published by Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs.

Books by the readers and beverages for sale from Molasses! All welcome!

REVERIE is a monthly event series coordinated by students in the Department of Comparative Literature at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Inviting affiliated faculty and guest speakers from broad areas of interdisciplinary practices, REVERIE provides a platform for reflection and public discourse on poetry, innovative fiction, critical theory and philosophy, independent publishing, and translation.

Event Venue

Molasses Books, 770 Hart Street, Brooklyn, United States