Catherine Kapphahn (“The Boy Who Flew” Queensboro Plaza – N) is a writer, educator, storyteller and speaker. Her memoir Immigrant Daughter: Stories You Never Told Me received The Center for Fiction’s Christopher Doheny Award, and Catherine recorded it for Audible. Catherine received grants from the Queens Council on the Arts and City Artist Corps. Her writing has appeared in Motherwell Magazine, Croatia Week, Newtown Literary, the Feminist Press Anthology This is the Way We Say Goodbye, Astoria Life, and CURE Magazine. Catherine is an adjunct lecturer at City University of New York at Lehman College in the Bronx, where her students’ brave stories inspire her. Catherine also is a yoga teacher. She grew up near the mountains in Colorado and now lives between two bridges in Queens with her husband and two sons.

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Catherine Kapphahn - “The Boy Who Flew” Queensboro Plaza – N | QUEENSBOUND 2024

Hiromi Kiba (“Queens Bohemian Rhapsody" and "クイーンズ・ボヘミアン・ラプソディ" - Read by the author in English and Japanese -121 St - J) (they/them) is a Queens-based interdisciplinary artist from Japan. In their latest project, the poetry video “Mirror Ball” (2023), Kiba collaborated with the experimental multimedia artist Phill Niblock. Kiba has participated in artist residencies at Chashama (2022), the NARS Foundation (2021), and mh PROJECT NYC (2020). They have performed at venues, including The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (2022), and contributed to a poetry chapbook Dance Floor Realization for Harlequin Creature (2021), along with columns titled “Music and Spirituality” for Love Injection (2019-2022). Kiba is a music enthusiast, a passionate dancer, and a dedicated record collector. Operating as DJ Kibachan, they craft uniquely eclectic 4-hour vinyl sets during their monthly residency at Jupiter Disco in Bushwick. For more information, visit their website at https://kibounce.wixsite.com/website follow them on IG, FB, and Twitter @kibounce and listen to DJ sets on Mixcloud at https://www.mixcloud.com/kibounce. 

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Hiromi Kiba - “Queens Bohemian Rhapsody" and "クイーンズ・ボヘミアン・ラプソディ" - 121 St - J | QUEENSBOUND 2024

Amy Lemmon (“Evening Call,” 36th Avenue - N) is the author of five poetry collections, including Saint Nobody (Red Hen Press) and The Miracles (C&R Press). Her poems and essays have appeared in The Best American Poetry, Rolling Stone, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Verse, Court Green, The Journal, Marginalia, and many other magazines and anthologies. Amy is Professor of English at the Fashion Institute of Technology-SUNY, where she teaches writing, literature, and creativity. She is the proud solo parent of two young adults, one of whom is intellectually disabled and in residential care. Born and raised in Ohio, she has lived in Astoria, Queens, since 1996.

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Amy Lemmon - “Evening Call,” 36th Avenue - N | 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. 

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

José Alfredo Menjivar (“I Gotta Get Back Home" and "Tengo Que Volver A Casa” Read by the author in ENGLISH and SPANISH - Northern Blvd - M/R)  is a writer, teacher educator, and educational researcher. He writes about being Honduran-New Yorker, growing up in Queens, being bilingual and queer, about cooking and food memories, teachers of Color and public education. All of these interests and aspects of his identity make sense if you know him personally and/or know his life story. You can follow him on Instagram at @josealfredophd @josealfredowrites @aqueenscommunityteacher.

José Alfredo Menjivar (“I Gotta Get Back Home" and "Tengo Que Volver A Casa” Read by the author in ENGLISH and SPANISH  Northern Blvd - M/R) es escritor, educador de maestras, y investigador educativo. Escribe sobre ser Hondureño-Neoyorquino, creciendo en Queens, ser bilingüe y queer, sobre la cocina y los recuerdos de la comida, los maestros de color y la educación pública. Todos estos intereses y aspectos de su identidad tienen sentido si lo conoces personalmente y/o conoces la historia de su vida. Puedes seguirlo en Instagram en @josealfredophd @josealfredowrites @aqueenscommunityteacher. 

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José Alfredo Menjivar - “I Gotta Get Back Home" and "Tengo Que Volver A Casa” - Northern Blvd - M/R

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

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

Bruce E. Whitacre (“A Garuda in Forest Park, A Pantoum" - Kew Gardens - F) wrote The Elk in the Glade: The World of Pioneer and Painter Jennie Hicks is a 2022 Publishers Weekly Editors Pick and won 2nd Place at TheBookFest 23. His second collection, Good Housekeeping, is forthcoming in 2024. Publications: The American Journal of Poetry, World Literature Today and more.  Anthologies: Poets of Queens (coming in 2024), I Wanna be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe (Eric Hoffer Honorable Mention), The Wonders of Winter, and The Strategic Poet craft book. A retired theatre executive, he lives in Forest Hills with his husband. More at www.brucewhitacre.com.

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Bruce E. Whitacre - “A Garuda in Forest Park, A Pantoum" - Kew Gardens - F | QUEENSBOUND 2024

Micah Zevin ("36th Avenue Poem" - 36th Avenue - W) is a librarian poet living in Jackson Heights. He has published articles and poems at The Otter, the Newtown Literary Journal and Blog, Poetry and Politics, Reality Beach, Jokes Review, Post (Blank), the American Journal of Poetry, The Tower Journal, Five2OneMagazine, the What Rough Beast Series at Indolent Books, Heavy Feather Review, Big Other, The Bowery Gothic, Brooklyn Vol. 1., The Poets of Queens Anthology, Narrative Northeast, Pine Hills Review,  Spoke Journal, Fence and forthcoming in First Literary Review East. His first book of poems, Metal, Heavy was published as of December 2020 from Olena Jennings and Poets of Queens Press. He created and curates an open mic poetry prompt workshop called The Risk of Discovery Reading Series. His website is www.micahzevin.weebly.com and his reading series page is on Facebook, ROD-RiskofDiscoveryReadingSeries.

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Micah Zevin - "36th Avenue Poem" - 36th Avenue - W | QUEENSBOUND 2024

Four complete playlists of QUEENSBOUND, featuring all of the projects contributors to date. Learn all about the project and see the station stops at queensbound.com. Audio production by Tim Pogo.

QUEENSBOUND 2021 - Monorail

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Author of the debut poetry collection We Call Them Beautiful (Diode Editions, 2019)
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Recordings of my published poems and recordings of the work of poets I admire.

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