Paul Catafago is the director and founder of Movement One: Creative Coalition, a New York arts non-profit organization, which amongst other things organizes the annual Queens International Poetry Festival. He is a poet who has performed his poetry all over the world, including his native New York, where he was a regular at The Nuyorican … Continued
Ellen Rocco has organized and produced the station’s Readers & Writers on the Air series since its inception in 1993. She also serves as on-air host. Ellen has been station manager since 1980. During the past 20 years, she has served as a NYSCA panelist, as a New York Council for the Humanities Board member, … Continued
CINDY BEER-FOUHY is the Director of Literary Arts at the Northern Westchester Center for the Arts. She develops writing courses and curriculum and teaches poetry and creative writing workshops for children, teens and adults. Cindy is Founder and Coordinator of the Creative Arts Café, the weekly poetry series at NWCA, now in its fourth year, … Continued
Ione is the author of Pride of Family, Four Generations of Women of Color (Summit Books, 1991; paperback, Avon Books, 1993). Pride of Family is a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and on the New York Public Library’s list of 25 Books to Remember. Her memoir was inspired by the 1868 diary … Continued
William Seaton is the author of Spoor of Desire: Selected Poems (FootHills Publishing), Tourist Snapshots (CC Marimbo), and Cold Water (Monkey’s Press). His Dada Poems from the German is forthcoming from Nirala. Seaton’s poetry, reviews, translations, and essays have recently appeared in Poetry Flash, Chiron Review, Adirondack Review, Gander Press Review, Burp, and Chronogram. An … Continued
Catherine Coy began work as the Poets House Program Director after completing her MFA in poetry from Columbia University in 1997. Before joining the staff full-time, she had been with Poets House for two years as a volunteer and Program Assistant. She moved to New York from Chicago, where she received her BA in English … Continued
Linda Bannerman-Martin is Curator of the Black Heritage Reference Center of the Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center on Northern Boulevard in Corona, New York. The collection she oversees consists of some 30,000 books, tapes, and microfilms dealing with virtually all aspects of Black life. Linda received her Masters in Library Science from the … Continued
Ram Devineni recently produced Vegas: Based on a True Story, by Amir Naderi, which was selected for competition at the 2008 Venice Film Festival and won the ITVS Diversity Development Fund. He is working on a documentary on the poet Allen Ginsberg’s life in India and a poetry video series for MIND TV in Philadelphia. … Continued