Join us for the 9th installment of Newfangled, poetry readings by emerging poets hosted by Robert Siek. Newfangled 9 will feature Yanyi Luo, Sam Ross, and Nomi Stone.

Suggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds.

Yanyi Luo enjoys a masc edge. She is the recipient of a 2015 Poets House Fellowship and works as a contributing editor and poetry reader at Nat. Brut. Her poems have appeared in [PANK] and The Cortland Review, among others. She lives in Brooklyn.

Sam Ross’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The New Republic, Southern Humanities Review, Tin House, Gulf Coast, Guernica, Indiana Review, and other journals. He has received fellowship support from Columbia University, Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. He is co-editor of Circumference: Poetry in Translation and poetry editor of Blunderbuss Magazine.

Nomi Stone is the author of the poetry collection Stranger’s Notebook (TriQuarterly, 2008), an MFA candidate in poetry at Warren Wilson College, and a PhD candidate in cultural anthropology at Columbia University. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Best American Poets 2016, Poetry Northwest, Blackbird, Guernica, Drunken Boat, Plume, and elsewhere. Stone is currently working on Kill Class, a manuscript based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork conducted within combat simulations in mock Middle Eastern villages erected by the US military across America.

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.