Poetry at Bryant Park Reading Room

Enjoy an evening of poetry hosted by Jason Schneiderman with readings by Adrian Matejka and Elizabeth Scanlon.Adrian Matejka is the author of eight books, most recently Be Easy: New & Selected Poems, published by Liveright in May. His previous works include The Big Smoke (Penguin, 2013), which was awarded the 2014 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize in poetry and Somebody Else Sold the World (Penguin, 2021), a finalist for the UNT Rilke Prize and the Indiana Authors Award. His first graphic novel Last On His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century (Liveright, 2023) by was selected by the New York Public Library as one of the ten best books of 2023 and was a finalist for the 2024 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work. He lives in Chicago and is editor-in-chief of Poetry magazine.Elizabeth Scanlon is the Editor-in-Chief of The American Poetry Review. She is the author of Whosoever Whole (forthcoming, Omnidawn), Lonesome Gnosis (Horsethief Books, 2017), The Brain Is Not the United States/The Brain Is the Ocean (The Head & The Hand Press, 2016) and Odd Regard (ixnay press, 2013). She is a Pushcart Prize winner, and her poems have appeared in many magazines, including Boston Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Ireland, Poetry London, and others. She lives in Philadelphia.