Queens Poetry Symposium Bilingual Poetry Reading

Join Carlie Hoffman and Tiffany Troy in a Bilingual Poetry Reading celebrating recent work by poets Rowyda Amin, Chris Campanioni, Joseph O. Legaspi, Ananda Naima González, Kyle Liang, and Taiyo Na. The reading highlights the work of (among others) New York-based poets who have an interest in writing from and about (among other topics) the incohesive experience of being between cultures, categories, and languages, exploring exile and intimacy through correspondence and heightened practices of mediation and the inherently sacred ritual of living, with focus given to the tender and brutal realities of humanity, feral and natural energies, dreamscapes, and mythological worlds. 

Biographies

Rowyda Amin is the author of the poetry chapbooks Desert Sunflowers (flipped eye) and We Go Wandering at Night and Are Consumed by Fire (Sidekick Books). Her poems have appeared in the New England Review, swamp pink, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Poetry Review, Magma , Small Orange, and Wasafiri, and in the anthologies Mapping the Future: The Complete Works Poets (Bloodaxe Books), Ten (Bloodaxe Books), Bad Kid Catullus (Sidekick Books), Aquanauts (Sidekick Books), No, Robot, No! (Sidekick Books), Bird Book : Towns, Parks, Gardens and Woodland, (Sidekick Books), Lung Jazz: Young British Poets for Oxfam (Cinnamon Press), Coin Opera (Sidekick Books) and Exposure (Cinnamon Press).

Chris Campanioni’s research on migration and media theory has been awarded the Calder Prize for interdisciplinary work and a Mellon Foundation fellowship, and his writing has received the Pushcart Prize, International Latino Book Award, and 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 (HarperCollins, 2022), BOMB, Denver Quarterly, Fence, American Poetry Review, and Latin American Literature Today. Recent books include the novel VHS (CLASH Books, 2025), a notebook titled A and B and Also Nothing (Unbound Edition, 2023), the poetry collection Windows 85 (Roof Books, 2024), a monograph on work born in translation called Drift Net (Lever Press, 2025), and north by north/west (West Virginia University Press, 2025), which Christine Hume calls “a new genre for exiles and immigrants.” 

Carlie Hoffman is the author of the poetry collections One More World Like This World (Four Way Books, 2025); When There Was Light (Four Way Books, 2023), winner of the National Jewish Book Award; and This Alaska (Four Way Books, 2021), winner of the Northern California Publishers and Authors Gold Award in Poetry as well as a finalist for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award. Hoffman is the translator from the German of both Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger’s Blütenlese [Harvest of Blossoms], forthcoming from World Poetry Books, and White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph (Atelier Éditions, 2025), and the poems of Rose Ausländer. A 2024 Convent Arts Fellow, her honors include a 92NY “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Prize and a Poets & Writers Amy Award. Hoffman’s work has been published in Poetry, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Los Angelos Review of Books, and many other venues. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Small Orange Journal.

Joseph O. Legaspi, a Fulbright and NYFA fellow, authored the poetry collections Amphibian (forthcoming, April 2026), Threshold, and Imago; and the chapbooks Postcards; Aviary, Bestiary, and Subways. He works at Columbia University, teaches at Fordham University, and resides with his husband in Jackson Heights, Queens.

Ananda Naima González is a writer, educator, and multidisciplinary artist residing in Harlem, NY. She carries a BA and an MFA from Columbia University, in poetry and fiction respectively. Ananda has had the pleasure of teaching at both Columbia and Gotham Writers Workshop, and has led masterclasses and workshops at NYU and Poetry Society of New York. She currently serves as a poetry mentor with the Young Artists Language and Devotion Alliance. Her words have appeared in BOMB, McSweeney’s, Catapult, Apogee, The Southern Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Bellingham Review, Lampblack, Waxing & Waning, and Twin Bird Review. She has been a finalist for awards granted by Gulf Coast Journal, LitMag, Indiana Review, and SmokeLong Quarterly, among others. Her mission is to honor the inherently sacred ritual of living. In addition to writing, she is also a professional dancer and an accomplished choreographer and filmmaker.

Kyle Liang is the son of Taiwanese and Malaysian immigrants and a descendant of the Dachen Islands. He is the author of the full-length poetry collection Good Son (Sundress Publications, 2024), which was selected as a finalist for the 2024 Big Other Award for Poetry, and the chapbook How to Build a House (winner of the 2017 Swan Scythe Press Chapbook Contest). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Best of the Net, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. His work has been nominated for Best New Poets and the Pushcart Prize and a semi-finalist for YesYes Book’s 2023 Vinyl 45 Chapbook Contest. Kyle works as a physician assistant at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, and he teaches at Brooklyn Poets and Quinnipiac University.

Taiyo Na (Taiyo Ebato) is a writer of poems, songs, stories and curricula who lives on unceded Lenape land (Queens, NY). His “Artist Takeovers” playlist was featured on Spotify in 2017, and his writing has appeared in Aperture, Poets House and Unmargin.

Tiffany Troy is the author of Dominus (BlazeVOX [books]) and the chapbook When Ilium Burns (Bottlecap Press). She translated Catalina Vergara’s diamond & rust (Toad Press International Chapbook Series). She is Managing Editor at Tupelo Quarterly, Associate Editor of Tupelo Press, Book Review Co-Editor at The Los Angeles Review, Assistant Poetry Editor at Asymptote, and Co-Editor of Matter.