Poetry Symposium at the Queens Museum

Poetry Symposium at the heart of downtown Flushing, at the Unisphere Room in the Queens Museum

Featuring: Ryan Cook Timothy Donnelly, Eileen G'Sell, Dorothea Lasky, Elizabeth Metzger, Hannah Page, and Molly Zhu


Join Ryan Cook Timothy Donnelly, Eileen G'Sell, Dorothea Lasky, Elizabeth Metzger, Hannah Page, and Molly Zhu at the Queens Poetry Symposium at the Queens Museum on December 8, 2024 at 1 p.m.

Timothy Donnelly’s most recent book, Chariot, was published in 2023 by Wave Books. His previous books include The Problem of the Many, winner of the inaugural Big Other Poetry Prize and The Cloud Corporation, winner of the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His poems have been widely translated and anthologized, and have appeared in such periodicals as American Poetry Review, Conjunctions, Harper’s, The Kenyon Review, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, and elsewhere, as well as in the Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize anthologies. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he teaches in the Writing Program of Columbia University School of the Arts and lives in Brooklyn with his family.

Eileen G’Sell is a poet and critic with recent contributions to Poetry, Oversound, Hyperallergic, The Baffler, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. In 2023, she received the Rabkin Prize for arts journalism. Her first volume of poetry, Life After Rugby, was published in 2018 by Gold Wake Press; her second volume of poetry, Francofilaments, is forthcoming from Broken Sleep Books in 2024. In 2025, her first nonfiction book, Lipstick, will be published as part of Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.

Elizabeth Metzger is the author of Lying In, as well as The Spirit Papers, winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry, and the chapbook Bed. Her poems have been published in the New Yorker, Paris Review, Poetry, The Nation, and elsewhere. Her next book The Going Is Forever comes out with Milkweed Editions in late 2025. She is a poetry editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Molly Zhu is a Chinese American poet and attorney. She likes to write about alter egos, dreams, translation and the women in her life. She was twice nominated for Pushcart prizes and has been published and featured in literary magazines such as ONLY POEMS, Hobart Pulp and the Tupelo Quarterly, among others. The poetry editor of Passengers Journal, she is also the winner of the 2021 Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize awarded by the Cordella Press for her debut chapbook, Asian American Translations.

This program is made possible with public funds from the Queens Arts Fund, a re-grant program supported by New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by New York Foundation for the Arts.