A poetry month celebration with the poets Adrian Dallas Frandle, Alina Stefanescu,and Leah Umansky. Hosted by Nicole Tallman.
ELJ Editions & Redacted Books present
The Be Well Reading Series' Celebration of Poetry Month
Hosted by Nicole Tallman
Thursday, April 4, 7-8 p.m. EST via Zoom
Featured Readers: Adrian Dallas Frandle, Alina Stefanescu, & Leah Umansky
Bios:
Adrian Dallas Frandle (they/he) is a queer fish who writes to and for the world about its future. They are Poetry Acquisitions Editor at Variant Lit. Book of Extraction: Poems with Teeth is out now with Kith Books. Adrian's work is published in various print and online journals. Read more at adriandallas.com.
Alina Stefanescu was born in Romania and lives in Birmingham, Alabama, with her partner and several intense mammals. Recent books include a creative nonfiction chapbook, Ribald (Bull City Press Inch Series, Nov. 2020) and Dor, which won the Wandering Aengus Press Prize (September, 2021). Her debut fiction collection, Every Mask I Tried On, won the Brighthorse Books Prize (April 2018). She serves as editor, reviewer, and critic for various journals and is currently working on a novel-like creature. Her new poetry collection will be published by Sarabande in 2025. More online atalinastefanescuwriter.com.
Leah Umansky is an educator, curator, collagist and writer in New York City. She is the author of Of Tyrant, and two other full-length collections of poetry, The Barbarous Century and Domestic Uncertainties, and two chapbooks, Straight Away the Emptied World and the Mad-Men inspired Don Dreams and I Dream. Leah earned her MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and has curated and hosted The COUPLET Reading Series in NYC since 2011. She has taught workshops to writers of all ages in such places as The Poetry School (UK), Hudson Valley Writers Center, and Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Visible Ink Program. She can be found at leahumansky.com, @lady_bronte on Twitter or @leah.umansky on Instagram.