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18 Sep


Friday, September 18, 7:00 P.M.
Brooklyn, NY

Make Room: A New Voices Salon with Diana Keren Lee, Susana Plotts-Pineda & D.S. Waldman

Address

Poetry Society of America
119 Smith Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201

Free with RSVP

Diana Keren Lee is the author of At the Reel, selected by Tomás Q. Morín as the winner of a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship (2026), and How to Cast a Beautiful Animal, winner of the Poetic Justice Institute Editor’s Prize (Fordham University Press, 2026). A National Poetry Series finalist, her work has appeared in Boston Review, The Common, Denver Quarterly, The New Republic, Pleiades, and elsewhere. She received an MFA from New York University and fellowships from MacDowell and Yaddo. Born and raised in Austin, she lives in the Front Range of Colorado.

Susana Plotts-Pineda is the author of In Order to Extract the Memory it is Of Course Necessary to Build the Room. She was a recipient of a Fulbright García-Robles Award in poetry with the support of National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City. Her poems appear in The New York Review of Books, Lana Turner, The Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere. She has received support from Naropa’s Summer Writing Program, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and Brooklyn Arts Exchange’s EmergeNYC.

D.S. Waldman is the author of the poetry collection Atria. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Los Angeles Review of Books, ZYZZYVA, and many other publications. His honors include a NYSCA Individual Artist Grant, Poetry Society of America’s Lucille Medwick Memorial Award, and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. Waldman lives and teaches creative writing in New York City.

 

 

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