PANEL DISCUSSION: Rosebud Ben-Oni, Rye Curtis, Safia Jama, and Stephanie Jimenez
b'Where is all of the literary love for Queens? It\\u2019s right here at\\xa0LIC Reading Series. Join them each week for stories, readings, and discussions with acclaimed writers, recorded with a live audience in the cozy carriage house of a classic pub in Long Island City, Queens, New York, and hosted by founder Catherine LaSota.\\nThis week, the podcast features the reading and panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series event on February 11, 2020, celebrating Writers of Queens, with Rosebud Ben-Oni (turn around, BRXGHT XYXS), Rye Curtis (Kingdomtide), Safia Jama, and Stephanie Jimenez (They Could Have Named Her Anything).\\nAbout the Readers:\\nRosebud Ben-Oni\\xa0is the winner of the 2019 Alice James Award for\\xa0If This Is the Age We End Discovery, forthcoming in 2021, and the author of\\xa0turn around, BRXGHT XYXS\\xa0(Get Fresh Books, 2019). Her poem \\u201cPoet Wrestling with Angels in the Dark\\u201d was commissioned by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City, and published by\\xa0The Kenyon Review\\xa0Online. She writes for\\xa0The Kenyon Review\\xa0blog. She recently edited a special chemistry poetry portfolio for\\xa0, and is finishing a series called The Atomic Sonnets, in honor of the Periodic Table\\u2019s 150th Birthday. Find her at\\xa07TrainLove.org.\\nRye Curtis\\xa0is originally from Amarillo, Texas. He is a graduate of Columbia University and now lives in Queens.\\xa0Kingdomtide\\xa0is his first novel.\\nSafia Jama\\xa0was born to a Somali father and an Irish-American mother in Queens, New York. A Harvard graduate and a Cave Canem fellow, she has poetry appearing in\\xa0Ploughshares,\\xa0Boston Review,\\xa0BOMB,\\xa0Cagibi, and\\xa0RHINO. Safia is a Pushcart-nominated poet and her manuscript was a semi-finalist in the Pleiades Press Editors Prize for Poetry. She was the subject of a \\u201cShades of U.S.\\u201d documentary about her life and work (CUNY TV). Safia teaches in the English Department at Baruch College.\\nStephanie Jimenez\\xa0is based in Queens, New York. Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in the\\xa0Guardian,\\xa0O, the Oprah Magazine,\\xa0Joyland Magazine,\\xa0The New York Times, and more. She is a former Fulbright recipient and a graduate of Scripps College in Claremont, California. Her debut novel,\\xa0They Could Have Named Her Anything, was published on August 1, 2019 (Little A).\\n\\n*\\nThis event was made possible in part by the Queens Council on the Arts, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'