Poetry Symposium at the Queens Museum

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

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


Join Chris Campanioni, Ry Cook Timothy Donnelly, Eileen G'Sell, Dorothea Lasky, Elizabeth Metzger, Hannah Page, and Molly for an afternoon thinking about and reimagining ekphrasis and the interdisciplinary possibilities of looking at visual arts, film, and other media lyrical poetry. Panels are followed by a reading and Q&A celebrating Eileen G’Sell's francofilaments (Broken Sleep Books) and an Open Mike headlined with featured poems from Chris Campanioni's Windows 85 (Roof Books).

Chris Campanioni’s work on migration and media theory has been awarded the Calder Prize for interdisciplinary research and a Mellon Foundation fellowship, and his writing has received the Pushcart Prize, the International Latino Book Award, and the Academy of American Poets College Prize. His essays, poetry, and fiction have been translated into Spanish and Portuguese and have found a home in several venues, including Best American Essays and Latin American Literature Today. Recent books include a novel named VHS (CLASH Books, 2025), a creative nonfiction called north by north/west (West Virginia University Press, 2025), a notebook titled A and B and Also Nothing (Unbound Edition, 2023), and the poetry collection Windows 85 (Roof Books, 2024). He teaches creative writing and media studies at Pace University in New York City.

Ry Cook is a Brooklyn-based poet/performer who earned their MFA in poetry at Columbia University, where they were awarded the teaching fellowship. Recently a Belladonna* Nonbinary Poetics resident, their work has been published by or is forthcoming in The Brooklyn Rail, Iterant, Spiral Editions, Tupelo Quarterly, Rain Taxi, Archway Editions, No Dear, and others. They host and manage events at McNally Jackson Bookstore, the Flow Chart Foundation, and Futurepoem Books. Their first chapbook, ASUSHUNAMIR is coming out early spring through Blue Bag Press.

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.

Dorothea Lasky is the author of several books of poetry and prose, including The Shining and the forthcoming, MEMORY. 

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.

​​Hannah Page graduated from Columbia University School of the Arts in 2022 with an MFA in Creative Writing. She holds a BA in Creative Writing from Columbia as well. Her work has been featured in Tupelo Quarterly and a number of other publications.  She is currently polishing her first full-length collection, To Unravel is Not Always to Fall Apart, which includes poems planted as distantly as a decade before now and as recently as a few months ago while exploring themes of relationship, loss/grief, sexuality, and transformation through the lens of living with mental illness. She lives in Manhattan.

Molly Zhu is a Chinese American poet and attorney. She likes to write about alter egos, dreams and colors. She was thrice 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.