Staff

Matt Brogan is the Executive Director of the Poetry Society of America. He has previously served as Executive Director of Seattle Arts & Lectures and Program Director of the Academy of American Poets and Nextbook. He also ran his own consulting firm, working with foundations, nonprofit organizations, and individual artists to produce major cultural projects in a wide range of disciplines and media, including exhibitions, festivals, publications, and documentary films. Much of his consulting work focused on the role of art in animating public space and building civil society. His poems and fiction have appeared in the Antioch Review, Brooklyn Rail, Columbia, Court Green, Denver Quarterly, Phoebe, The Rumpus, Santa Monica Review, Verse, ZYZZYVA, and other literary magazines. He is the editor of This Place (Hatje Cantz, 2019).

Parker Menzimer is the Programs and Community Manager at the Poetry Society of America. For a decade he has produced and programmed literary events in a variety of venues. He has worked as a composition and creative writing instructor at CUNY, an editor at Princeton Architectural Press, and a bookseller. He is the author of the chapbook The Links, and his poems and critical writing have appeared in BOMB, Epiphany, and elsewhere. He earned a BA from Bard College and an MFA from Brooklyn College where he was a Truman Capote Literary Fellow and Rose Goldstein Scholar.

Sallie Fullerton is the Development Associate at the Poetry Society of America. They have a background in nonprofit literary publishing and event coordination and their work has been published in Bennington Review, Prairie Schooner, Frontier Poetry, Literary Hub, and the anthology Pathetic Literature edited by Eileen Myles, among other places. They hold an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and are the recipient of a Fulbright Arts/Research grant.

Brett Fletcher Lauer is the Deputy Director of the Poetry Society of America and the poetry editor of A Public Space. He is the author of the memoir Fake Missed Connections: Divorce, Online Dating, and Other Failures and the poetry collection A Hotel In Belgium, which was named a Top 40 Book of 2014 by Coldfront Magazine. In addition to co-editing several anthologies, including Please Excuse this Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next Generation and Isn't It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets, he is the poetry co-chair for the Brooklyn Book Festival and lives in Brooklyn.