Join us for the 7th installment of Newfangled, poetry readings by emerging poets hosted by Robert Siek. Newfangled 7 will feature Ricardo Hernandez, Joshua Kleinberg, & Tommy “Teebs” Pico.
RICARDO HERNANDEZ is a graduate of Baruch College and recipient of fellowships from Poets House and Lambda Literary. He lives in Queens.
JOSHUA KLEINBERG is an MFA candidate at Columbia University. His poetry was awarded an Academy of American Poets prize and has appeared in Chorus: A Literary Mixtape (2012, MTV Books) and New Poetry from the Midwest (2015, New American).
TOMMY “TEEBS” PICO is the author of absentMINDR (VERBALVISUAL, 2014)—the first chapbook APP published for iOS mobile/tablet devices—was a Queer/Art/Mentors inaugural fellow, 2013 Lambda Literary fellow in poetry, and has poems in BOMB, Guernica, and [PANK]. Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation, he now lives in Brooklyn and co-curates the reading series Poets With Attitude (PWA) with Morgan Parker. @heyteebs
ROBERT SIEK is the author of the poetry collection Purpose and Devil Piss (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2013) and the chapbook Clubbed Kid (New School University, 2002). He works at a large publishing house in Manhattan and lives in Brooklyn.