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Looking for ways to connect with more writers in real-time? Want to learn what it takes to host a successful reading series? Join the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) for “The Ins & Outs of Running a Reading,” designed for literary artists. Writer Kyle Carrero Lopez will be moderating a conversation with writers and reading coordinators Malvika Jolly, Rax King, and E.R. Pulgar followed by a Q&A.

By the end of this session, you’ll have gained insights into: the value that a reading series brings; best practices for the many logistics involved in coordination; ways to pitch, locate, or be considered for participation in readings; and all of the curatorial considerations required to really make a reading pop. Please register for the event here. 

This is an online Zoom conversation. Those who register will receive the Zoom link to participate soon after registration.

Event Breakdown

What: The Ins & Outs of Running a Reading 

When: Thursday, April 27 from 6:00-7:30 PM ET

Where: Online via Zoom

Audience: All Literary Artists

Presenter: Kyle Carrero Lopez

Panelists: Malvika Jolly, Rax King, and E.R. Pulgar

Cost: Pay What You Wish 

Register: Register here

Questions: Email learning@nyfa.org

Presenter

Kyle Carrero Lopez was born to Cuban parents in northern New Jersey and is the author of MUSCLE MEMORY, the chapbook winner of the 2020 [PANK] Books Contest (sample poems here). Among other subjects, his work centers power, social life, and Afro-Cuban histories. He’s represented by—but not related to—Ashley Lopez of Waxman Literary. He co-founded LEGACY, a Brooklyn-based production collective by and for Black queer artists. His writing has been highlighted in Best New Poets, Best of the Net, W Magazine, The Atlantic, and episodes of Poetry Unbound and The Slowdown. Kyle is the recipient of fellowships from the CubaOne Foundation and NYU, where he was a Goldwater Writing Workshop Fellow, a Provost’s Global Research Initiative Fellow at NYU Berlin, and earned his M.F.A. in Poetry. He’s also a Cave Canem workshop alum and a 2022 Tin House Scholar.

Panelists

Malvika Jolly is a poet and literary translator based in New York City. Her writing examines postcolonial poetics, multilinguality, magical realism, imperialism, hybridity, folklore and mythology, and transnational liberational politics—reimagining Global South histories as an inheritance of plenty. She serves as project coordinator for cross-cultural arts organization Tamaas and as a Senior Editor for Poetry Northwest, where she directs poetry workshops to transform racial equity in literary publishing. Her poems are featured in Canthius, Chicago magazine, Frontier Poetry, MIZNA, The Rumpus, Salt Hill Journal, The Best Small Fictions Anthology 2023, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of fellowships from Brooklyn Poets, City Lore, Dara Shikoh Literary Festival, Davis Projects for Peace, Threewalls, RAWI, and The Watering Hole. She curates The New Third World, a poetry reading series inspired by the Non-Aligned Movement.

Rax King is the James Beard Award-nominated author of Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer and co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. She lives in Brooklyn with her toothless Pekingese.

E.R. Pulgar is a Venezuelan American poet, journalist, and translator based in New York City. Their criticism has appeared in Rolling Stone, i-D, Playboy, and elsewhere. Their poems have appeared in Changes Review, Epiphany, b l u s h, ANUS Magazine, and elsewhere. They were selected as a finalist for the 7th Rafael Cadenas Young Poets Prize. They have taught writing at the Craig Newmark Graduate School Of Journalism at CUNY, The New York Public Library, and The School of the New York Times. They curate the monthly queer reading series Endless Blue at the Bowery Poetry Club, and are a member of the Ugly Duckling Presse working collective, who will publish their first translation this December.