Please join us for the tenth installment of NEWFANGLED, poetry readings by emerging poets hosted by Robert Siek. The tenth and final reading in the series will feature eight poets who read at one of the previous Newfangleds:

CHASE BERGGRUN, TOM CAPELONGA, RICARDO HERNANDEZ, LAWRENCE KAPLUN, PETER LABERGE, JAKE MATKOV, JAYSON P. SMITH, and NOMI STONE.

Creation of the collage of readers’ photos on this event page by Wo Chan–an artist of many talents!

CHASE BERGGRUN is a nonbinary trans poet and the author of Discontent and Its Civilizations: Poems of Erasure, winner of the 2012 jubilat Chapbook Contest, and their work has been published or is forthcoming in Jellyfish, The Offing, Prelude, inter|rupture, Apogee, No Tokens, Cosmonauts Avenue, BOAAT, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. They are Poetry Editor at Washington Square Review and Swarm Quarterly, and an MFA candidate in Poetry at NYU.

TOM CAPELONGA is a twenty-eight-year-old native of New York City. His work has appeared in FourTwoNine Magazine, Podium, the HIV Here & Now Project, and the Lambda Literary Poetry Spotlight. He is working on completing his first chapbook, titled The Christopher Street Reader.

RICARDO HERNANDEZ is a recipient of fellowships from Poets House and Lambda Literary. His work has appeared in Newton Literary, Assaracus, and The Cortland Review. He lives in Queens.

LAWRENCE KAPLUN’s from Southern California. His poems have appeared in the Gay & Lesbian Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Sonora Review, Southern Humanities Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Manhattan.

PETER LABERGE is the author of the chapbook Hook (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2015), which is included on the American Library Association’s Over the Rainbow List. His recent work appears in Beloit Poetry Journal, Best New Poets 2014, Colorado Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Indiana Review, Iowa Review, Pleiades, and Washington Square Review, among others. He is the recipient of a fellowship from the Bucknell University Stadler Center for Poetry, and the founder and editor-in-chief of The Adroit Journal. He lives in Philadelphia, where he is an undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania.

JAKE MATKOV writes poetry in Brooklyn, NY, where he teaches undergraduate courses in the English department at LIU Brooklyn. He is a cofounding editor of visceral brooklyn and cocurates its reading series of the same name. A 2015-16 Queer Art Mentorship fellow, his poems have been published in fields magazine, voicemail poems, Maudlin House, thosethatthis, and others.

JAYSON P. SMITH is a Bronx-born, Brooklyn-based writer. A Callaloo fellow & Urban Word NYC Mentor, Jayson’s work can be found in fields magazine, The Offing, Twelfth House, The Rumpus, & Day One. Jayson is also the Poetry Editor at Union Station Magazine.

NOMI STONE is the author of the poetry collection Stranger’s Notebook, an MFA Candidate at Warren Wilson, and hopefully finished her PhD in Anthropology at Columbia last week. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Best American Poetry 2016, The New Republic, Poetry Northwest, Guernica, Drunken Boat, and elsewhere.