Join us for a reading featuring poet and editor for The Song Cave, Alan Felsenthal, with poet, public artist, and activist scholar, Kendra Sullivan.

Alan Felsenthal is the author of Lowly (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017) and Hereafter (The Song Cave, 2024). His writing has appeared in BOMB, the Brooklyn Rail, Harper’s, the New York Review of Books, and the New York Times Magazine. He is the co-editor of A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind: The Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton (The Song Cave, 2013) and the editor of Bookworm: Conversations with Michael Silverblatt (The Song Cave, 2023). He teaches poetry at NYU Tandon School of Engineering.

Kendra Sullivan is a poet, a public artist, and an activist scholar. She is Director of the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her leadership portfolio currently includes the NYC Climate Justice Hub, the CUNY Climate Assembly Project, the CUNY Adjunct Incubator, Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, and Women’s Studies Quarterly. She directed the Mellon Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research from 2014-2024. Sullivan has taught at NYU, Columbia, and the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the co-founder of the Sunview Luncheonette, a cooperative arts venue in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and a member of Mare Liberum, an eco-art collective. A recipient of the Pushcart Prize (2026), her poetry books include Zero Point Dream Poems (DoubleCross Press, 2023) and Reps (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2024).

Poetry Reading: Alan Felsenthal and Kendra Sullivan