Carrie Magness Radna, David Dephy, Jordan E. Franklin, Megha Sood,

07/29/2023 - 1:00pm to 1:30pm

Poetry

Reading

Brownstone Poets at the NYC Poetry Festival on Governors Island, Sat, July 29 at 1 p.m.

Hello Poets and Friends,

Brownstone Poets is taking a summer hiatus from our monthly events. There will be no Zoom readings held in July and August. We return on Saturday, September 30 with Nancy Mercado, Felix Guzman, and Dimitri Reyes.

However, I’m excited to announce that Brownstone Poets will be participating at the annual New York City Poetry Festival on Saturday, July 29 at 1 p.m. on the Algonquin Stage.

Our fabulous features are:

Carrie Magness Radna

David Dephy

Jordan E. Franklin

Megha Sood

Hosted by Patricia Carragon

I would like to give an honorarium to the features. Donations will be taken on PayPal at pcarragon@gmail.com. I will also accept a donation in person at the festival. Your donation will count as an attendance toward being in the 2024 anthology.

Coming to this reading will also count as an attendance toward being in the 2024 anthology.

Bios:

Carrie Magness Radna

Born in Norman, Oklahoma, Carrie Magness Radna (she/her)is an archival audiovisual cataloger at the New York Public Library, a singer, a lyricist-songwriter and a poet who loves to travel (when it’s safe). She won the Third Place Prize for “Pink (a Ghazal)” in the 91th annual Writer’s Digest Writer’s Competition (Rhyming Poetry). She’s currently an associate editor of Brownstone Poets Anthology (2022-) and was nominated for the 2022 Pushcart Prize. Her fifth book, Shooting Myself in the Dark, was just published by Cajun Mutt Press in January 2023.

David Dephy

David Dephy (he/him) (pronounced as “DAY-vid DE-fee”), is an American award-winning poet and novelist. The founder of Poetry Orchestra, a 2023 Pushcart Prize nominee for Brownstone Poets, an author of full-length poetry collection Eastern Star (Adelaide Books, NYC, 2020), and A Double Meaning, also a full-length poetry collection with co-author Joshua Corwin, (Adelaide Books, NYC, 2022). His poem, “A Senses of Purpose,” is going to the moon in 2024 by The Lunar Codex, NASA, Space X, and Poetry on Brick Street. He is named as Literature Luminary by Bowery Poetry, Stellar Poet by Voices of Poetry, Incomparable Poet by Statorec, Brilliant Grace by Headline Poetry & Press and Extremely Unique Poetic Voice by Cultural Daily. He lives and works in New York City.

Jordan E. Franklin

Jordan E. Franklin (she/her) is a poet from Brooklyn, NY. She is the author of the full-length poetry collection, when the signals come home (Switchback Books) and a poetry chapbook, boys in the electric age (Tolsun Books). Her work has appeared in Breadcrumbs, Frontier, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, the Southampton Review, and elsewhere. She is the winner of the 2017 James Hearst Poetry Prize, the 2020 Gatewood Prize, and a finalist of the 2019 Furious Flower Poetry Prize. Currently, she is a doctoral candidate pursuing her PhD in English with a Creative Dissertation at Binghamton University.

Megha Sood Megha Sood (she/her) is an award-winning Asian-American poet, editor, and literary activist from New Jersey. She is a literary partner with Life in Quarantine at Stanford University. Member of National League of American Pen Women (NLAPW), Women’s National Book Association, and United Nations Association-US Chapter. She is also an associate editor for the international journals Mookychick (UK) and Brownstone Poets (USA). Author of chapbook, My Body is Not an Apology, (Finishing Line Press, 2021) and award-winning full-length, My BodyLives Like a Threat, (FlowerSongPress, 2022). She has co-edited anthologies The Medusa Project (Mookychick, UK) and The Kali Project, (Indie Blu(e) Press, USA). Her co-edited anthology The Medusa Project has been selected as a digital payload to be sent to the moon in 2024 as part of the historical LunarCodex Project in collaboration with NASA/SpaceX. Her work is inclined toward social issues as generating awareness is the primary goal of her writings. She blogs at https://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/ and tweets at @meghasood16.

Patricia Carragon

Patricia Carragon (she/her) has recent publications in Arriving at a Shoreline Anthology (great weather for MEDIA, 2022), Bear Creek Haiku, Beat Generation Anthology 2022, Clockwise Cat Re-Meow (2022), I Wanna Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe (Milk & Cake Press, 2022), Jerry Jazz Musician, Moonstone Press, Nat’l and Int’l Goddess, NBPF 2023 Festival Anthology, Out Loud, an LGBTQA Literary Arts Anthology (Red or Green Books, 2022), The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow 2022 anthology, The Scene Magazine, June 2023, When Women Speak Poetry Anthology, Vol. 1, (2022), Witchery, Issue 3, Summer 2023, et al. Her debut novel, Angel Fire, is from Alien Buddha Press. Her books from Poets Wear Prada are Meowku and The Cupcake Chronicles. She hosts Brownstone Poets and is the editor-in-chief of its annual anthology.