Featuring Antoinette Cooper '20, Anastasios Karnazes '20, Eduardo Martínez-Leyva '15, and Peter Patapis '20.
Organized by Dorothea Lasky, Writing.
CUID is required to attend this event.
Antoinette Cooper is a poet and collective trauma facilitator whose work explores the intersections of racial identity, healing, and embodied wisdom. Her forthcoming documentary poetry collection, UNRULY (Legacy Book Press, 2025), examines intergenerational trauma and the resilience of Black women's bodies. Cooper's work has appeared in The Poetry Foundation, Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, and The Amistad Literary Arts Journal. She is the founder of Black Exhale, a nonprofit dedicated to creating sanctuary spaces for the liberated Black body. Her recent honors include the LMCC Workspace Residency and grants from the Café Royal Cultural Foundation.
Anastasios Karnazes is the editor of Theaphora.
Eduardo Martínez-Leyva was born in El Paso, TX to Mexican immigrants. His work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, The Boston Review, The Journal, Frontier Poetry, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. He’s received fellowships from CantoMundo, The Frost Place, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Lambda Literary Foundation, and a teaching fellowship from Columbia University, where he earned his MFA. His debut poetry collection, Cowboy Park, was selected by Amaud Jamaul Johnson as the winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry and is published by The University of Wisconsin Press.
Peter Patapis is the author of the chapbooks An Incense Named Magenta (Choo Choo Press, 2024), HOW TO BECOME STUPID (Bottlecap Press, 2024), and Green Dream (Choo Choo Press, 2024). He has taught creative writing for Columbia University’s Pre-College Programs and at the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
