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Jersey City Writers (JCW) presents FUTUROLOGY, Jersey City’s 3rd Annual Poetry Festival from Friday, October 16 thru Sunday, October 18. Join JCW at any of the online events where it will peer into the future from a poet’s perspective.

Tonight's curated reading celebrates one of the strongest poetry communities in Hudson County: Jersey City Plums!
Hosted by: Leslie McIntosh
Special Guests: Cortney Lamar Charleston and Evie Shockley will read from their work and participate in a Q & A.

Please note: Contact info@jerseycitywriters.org if you need special accommodation to enjoy this event.

Leslie McIntosh has received support, in the form of residencies and fellowships, from Callaloo, Furious Flower Poetry Center, The Watering Hole, and Zoeglossia. He was a member of Montclair State University's first CUPSI slam team in 2006, and has represented The Fuze Poetry Slam of Philadelphia at the National Poetry Slam in 2008 & 2009. His poems have been honored as finalists for Split This Rock’s 2019 Sonia Sanchez/Langston Hughes Poetry Contest, judged by Franny Choi, and Southern Humanities Review’s 2020 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize, judged by Paisley Rekdal, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database, and Southern Humanities Review. He is an Assistant Poetry Editor at
Newfound. He lives in Jersey City, NJ.

Cortney Lamar Charleston is the author of Telepathologies, selected by D.A. Powell for the 2016 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize, and Doppelgangbanger, forthcoming in February 2021 from Haymarket Books. He was awarded a 2017 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and he has also received fellowships from Cave Canem, The Conversation Literary Festival, and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Winner of a Pushcart Prize, his poems have appeared in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, New England Review, Granta, The Nation and elsewhere. He serves as a poetry editor at The Rumpus and on the editorial board at Alice James Books.

Evie Shockley, Professor of English at Rutgers University—New Brunswick, is the author of Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry (Iowa, 2011) and five collections of poetry. The most recent, semiautomatic (Wesleyan, 2017), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the LA Times Book Prize, and winner of the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, which she also won in 2012 for the new black (Wesleyan, 2011). Her poems and essays have appeared in journals and anthologies internationally. Shockley’s work has been supported and recognized with the Lannan Poetry Prize, the Stephen Henderson Award, the Holmes National Poetry Prize, and fellowships from Cave Canem, MacDowell, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the American Council of Learned Societies.

Jersey City Writers is a community where writers interact to develop and explore their craft. JCW’s programming - now 100% online - includes dozens of monthly events such as workshops, writing marathons, and live readings. To learn more about the JCW community, drop us a line at info@jerseycitywriters.org so you can receive SHORTHAND, our weekly newsletter.

Please note: Contact info@jerseycitywriters.org if you need special accommodation to enjoy these events.

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