SABIDURIA

Gogo Dance

allia abdullah-matta (“mott ave,” Mott Avenue/Far Rockaway - A) is a poet and Professor of English at CUNY LaGuardia. She writes about the culture, and history of Black women and explores the presence of Black bodies and voices in fine art and poetry. Her poetry has been published in Newtown Literary, Promethean, Marsh Hawk Review, Mom Egg Review, Vox, Global City Review, and the Jam Journal Issue of Push/Pull. Her do-si-do double chapbook, washed clean & blues politico was published by harlequin creatures (hcx) 2021. She is working on a poetry/hybrid collection of poems and images entitled blackprint.

#QUEENSBOUND #QUEENSBOUND24 #QB24

allia abdullah-matta - “mott ave,” Mott Avenue/Far Rockaway - A | QUEENSBOUND 2024

Jared Beloff (“The World to Come,” Kew Gardens Union Turnpike - E) is the author of Who Will Cradle Your Head (ELJ Editions, 2023). He is the editor of the Marvel-inspired poetry anthology, Marvelous Verses (Daily Drunk, 2021) and has been a peer reviewer for Whale Road Review since 2021. His work can be found at Night Heron Barks, Baltimore Review, River Mouth Review, The Shore, Contrary Magazine and elsewhere. You can find him on Twitter @Read_Instead and his website www.jaredbeloff.com.

#QUEENSBOUND #QUEENSBOUND24 #QB24

Jared Beloff - “The World to Come,” Kew Gardens Union Turnpike - E | QUEENSBOUND 2024

Rajan Maharjan (“March Conversations with Arlani” and "अर्लानीसित मार्च कुराकानी" - Read by the author in ENGLISH and NEPALI - 88 St -A), a first-generation immigrant from Nepal, who has been living in Queens since 2014. He writes poetry in English, Nepali and Nepal Bhasa, his mother language, also exploring other genres through which he could tell untold stories of his people. His poetry and other works are published in few Nepali and English journals including Newtown Literary and Pratik Magazine. Find him on Twitter at @rjnmhrjn. 

#QUEENSBOUND #QUEENSBOUND24 #QB24

Originals

Rajan Maharjan - “March Conversations with Arlani” and "अर्लानीसित मार्च कुराकानी" - 88 St - A

Enzo Silon Surin (“Elegy for One Sixty-First Street” - Parsons Blvd - F) is a Haitian-born and Queens-amplified award-winning poet, author, educator, publisher and social advocate. He has taught, performed, and lectured on topics such as social justice, the immigrant experience, racial disparities, and mental health awareness. He is author of American Scapegoat (Black Lawrence Press, 2023) and When My Body Was A Clinched Fist (2020), winner of the 21st Annual Massachusetts Book Awards. In American Scapegoat, his second full-length collection of poetry, he interrogates the socio-political framework of a democracy at war with itself and its humanity. Surin is also a teaching artist co-editor of Where We Stand: Poems of Black Resilience (Cherry Castle Publishing, 2022). He is Founding Editor & Publisher at Central Square Press and Founder & Executive Director at the Faraday Publishing Company, Inc., a nonprofit literary services and social advocacy organization. www.enzosurinink.org

#QUEENSBOUND #QUEENSBOUND24 #QB24

ShurePlus MOTIV

Enzo Silon Surin - " Elegy for One Sixty-First Street" - Parsons Blvd - F  | QUEENSBOUND 2024

Welcome to QUEENSBOUND 2024! Since 2018, QUEENSBOUND has showcased the communities of Queens through the words of poets writing poems by, for, and about the borough, all presented on a Queens-line-only subway map. 

Hear all of the 2024 contributors: allia abdullah-matta, Jared Beloff, Joe Gross, Nathalie Handal, Emily Hockaday, Dena Igusti, Olena Jennings, Catherine Kapphahn, Hiromi Kiba, Amy Lemmon, Rajan Maharjan, José Alfredo Menjivar, Enzo Silon Surin, Bruce Whitacre, and Micah Zevin.  

This year’s edition introduces poems presented in four languages other than English—Japanese, Nepali, Spanish, and Ukrainian—accompanied by their English translations. 

Individual poems are shared in the playlist below.

QUEENSBOUND 2024 - Monorail

The poem “Agency,” appears in the excellent, just-released anthology Braving the Body (Small Harbor Publishing, 2024), edited by Nicole Callihan, Pichchenda Bao, and Jennifer Franklin. Get yourself a copy.

Agency by KC Trommer

Remix the 'HAY LUPITA' stems here: https://fadr.com/event/hay-lupita

HAY LUPITA

Remix

"It's Important I Remember That Journalism Is The First Draft Of History"by Cortney Lamar Charleston

Recorded by Christine Stewart-Nuñez for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on November 14, 2024. www.poets.org

Christine Stewart-Nuñez: "Miscarriage"

“Woodpecker” by Jeffrey Harrison

Author of the debut poetry collection We Call Them Beautiful (Diode Editions, 2019)
https://www.diodeeditions.com/product-page/we-call-them-beautiful | 

Founder of QUEENSBOUND: www.queensbound.com

Recordings of my published poems and recordings of the work of poets I admire.