UpSet Press Poetry Reading

 Featuring:

 Jenny Husk writes poetry. Her goal is to write more poetry. But mostly her days are busy with mess-time clean-ups, endless loads of diapers, and as many knits and purls as she can fit into the spaces between. When her body and mind aren’t exhausted from too many rounds of “Ring Around the Rosie,” she jots down words, single words, strings of letters, and a few punctuations marks; for now, she calls this poetry. In 2003 she earned her MFA in Poetry from Brooklyn College. Currently, she teaches composition at Southern Connecticut State University.

 Nicholas Powers is a poet, freelance journalist and teaches literature at SUNY Old Westbury.

 Denise Galang is a native New Yorker of Filipino descent. She received an MFA at Brooklyn College. Her poetry has been published in Brooklyn Review, Poetry in Performance, and Maganda Literary Journal. Other projects include her blog, Being Home, a chapbook titled Split Island, and the daily work of tempering her temper around her three-year-old. Mother to two and teacher to scores of eighth-graders, she subsists on words, bread, family, and some booze.

 Robert Booras is half man, half creature, half upset, half happy, half publisher, half poet, fully exhausted...living in Brooklyn, with family and friends, and a job to boot.

 Sean O’Hanlon still writes poetry because he is amazed by life. He holds an MFA from City College and earns his keep teaching chess to children.

 Rachel Rear is a poet based in Brooklyn, where she teaches eighth grade English. She also teaches English Composition at The Fashion Institute of Technology. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from The New School, and has been published in liquidgnome.com and in City College’s 2007 edition of Poetry in Performance.

 Karen Pittelman’s poetry has been published in Blip, The Pinch, New South, Sojourner and Oberon. She’s the author of two non-fiction books about social change philanthropy from Soft Skull Press, and a singer-songwriter with the band Karen & The Sorrows. She lives in Queens where she works as a writing coach.