Chapbook Launch Reading: Mya Matteo Alexice's The Limerence Object

Chapbook Launch Reading: Mya Matteo Alexice's The Limerence Object

By Hudson Park Library

Overview

Join five talented poets as they read their own work in celebration of Mya Matteo Alexice's new chapbook The Limerence Object.

Join these five talented poets (Mya Matteo Alexice, Thomas Dunn, Kenny Bradley, David M. de León and Mark Faunlagui) as they read their own work in celebration and conversation with Mya Matteo Alexice's new chapbook The Limerence Object.

More about the authors:

Mya Matteo Alexice is a Black and white graduate of the Rutgers-Newark MFA. A Cave Canem fellow and academic studying Black romantic life, they are the author of A Shape We’ve Yet to Name (2024) and The Limerence Object (2025). Matteo’s poems can be found in publications such as Pleiades, swamp pink, Black Warrior Review, Copper Nickel, diode, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Bennington Review, Honey Literary and elsewhere. They’ve received fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, Fine Arts Work Center, and more. They were the runner-up in the 2023 Black Warrior Review Poetry Contest judged by Gary Soto. He enjoys video games where you can make the characters kiss.

Thomas Earl Dunn II is a poet from Midland, Michigan. A proud graduate of Eastern Michigan University and California College of the Arts in San Francisco, Dunn is a Cave Canem Fellow, a VONA fellow and has attended the Community of Writers' Poetry and Non-Fiction Workshops. Dunn has both published & forthcoming poems in various journals and anthologies including The Georgia Review, Poetry Lore, Allium, Trinity University's Ecopoetry Anthology Attached to the Living World, among others. They currently live in New York City where they currently attend Columbia University’s Nonfiction MFA.

Kenny Bradley (he/they) is a poet and graduate student at Rockefeller University, based in New York City, where he travels the boroughs to perform spoken word poetry. He utilizes concepts in both music and biology to influence and shape his poetry to discuss topics ranging in self-love, identity, dissecting trauma, and being a black person in STEM. He was a finalist for the Luminaire Poetry Award and his work can be found on Button Poetry, Frontier Poetry, Empty House Press and etc. His debut chapbook Night Science was released last year with Garden Party Collective where he now helps the collective with new writing contests/projects. When he is not writing, you can find him in a record store, steaming fresh cup of hot chocolate in hand, spotify in the other as he researches new artists to introduce to his homies. To find more of his work, you can find him on instagram @hotchocolate_poetry.

David M. de León is a Puerto Rican writer, academic, and theater artist. Their prose and poetry appear in places like Best of the Net, AGNI, The Yale Review, The Volta, Fence, Up the Staircase, Strange Horizons, African American Review, and Ate Mais: Until More the anthology of Latinx futurisms. Their poetry manuscripts have been shortlisted for awards at Button Poetry, the Andrés Montoya prize, PANK, Pleiades, and Tupelo Press. They have a Ph.D. in English literature from Yale University and served as a senior editor at The Yale Review. Their academic work, forthcoming from Duke University Press in book form, focuses on long-form works by contemporary Black poets and musicians. They currently teach at Hunter College CUNY.

Mark Faunlagui was born in the Philippines, grew up in NJ/NY, and studied at Cornell University. He is an architect in NYC, and lives in Jersey City. His work appears in Greying Ghost, Omninverse, Augury Books Online, Sibling Rivalry Press, The New Engagement, White Stag Publishing, Broken Lens Journal, WAYE and Fence. Manuscripts in-progress have earned finalist and special mentions from presses such as Wave Books, The Song Cave and Copper Canyon Press. He has been a featured poet in readings throughout the NYC area, most recently at the 2024 + 2025 NYC Poetry Festival. On Some HispanoLuso Miniaturists, from 1913 Press, is his first book of poems, and the first in the projected Third World Lover Tetralogy (Majnun; Porn W/Out Sex; Dumpster Satyr).

Category: Arts, Literary Arts

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Hudson Park Library

66 Leroy Street

New York, NY 10014

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Nov 7 · 6:00 PM EST