GET ON THE VAN 5/20/09 :: Heights Poets on the Van :: WHFR

GET ON THE VAN :: Heights Poets on the Van

In the shadow of the GW Bridge

Air date: 5/20/09

Poets who live (or used to live) in and around the Heights read from their work.

Ricardo Alberto Maldonado was born and raised in Puerto Rico. He is a poet and translator. He works for the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center.
Erica Wright is the poetry Eeitor at Guernica. Her poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Harpur Palate, Peqoud, and on From the Fishouse. Dancing Girl Press will publish her chapbook Silt later this year.
Matthew Pennock's poems have appeared in such magazines as Western Humanities Review, Denver Quarterly, and LIT, among others. He also has poems forthcoming in New York Quarterly. He is a proud resident of Washington Heights and lives in the shadow of the George Washington Bridge. He also has a very low center of gravity, which makes him extremely difficult to knock down.
Billy Merrell is the author of Talking in the Dark, a poetry memoir (Scholastic, 2003), and a coeditor for The Full Spectrum (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2006), which received a 2006 Lambda Literary Award. He currently serves as web development coordinator for Poets.org, the website of the Academy of American Poets.

Unfortunately, there is no archive for this show. We will do it again and pretend that it wasn't done the first time, because if it's not fully documented on the internet, it doesn't exist.