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Write me at: annelysegelman at gmail.com

Annelyse Gelman’s most recent book, Vexations (University of Chicago Press, 2023), won the 2022 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and was longlisted for the National Book Award. Gelman is also the author of the poetry collection Everyone I Love Is a Stranger to Someone (Write Bloody, 2014), and the experimental pop EP About Repulsion (Fonograf Editions, 2019), as well as the artist’s book POOL (Neck Press, 2020). Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, BOMB Magazine, the PEN Poetry Series, The Iowa Review, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere.

Gelman also founded and directs Midst, an app and digital publishing platform focused on capturing, saving, and sharing the writing process. Each poem published in Midst includes an interactive timeline showing readers exactly how each published poem was written and edited—blank page to final draft. Midst is in active development, with the ultimate goal of becoming a free and highly accessible public resource. The project has commissioned emerging and acclaimed contemporary poets, including Forrest Gander, Franny Choi, Daniel Borzutzky, Mónica de la Torre, Xandria Phillips, and Dan Beachy-Quick. Read Midst at midst.press/read.

Gelman’s language-based, trans-disciplinary projects are frequently ekphrastic and collaborative, using consumer-grade technologies and available materials to explore intimacy, vulnerability, and interdependence. Beyond publishing, her expanded poetics practice has resulted in a duet with Tavares Strachan's neon sculpture at the Blanton Museum of Art, a reading with Deborah Butterfield's sculptures at the Manetti Shrem Museum, and a performance for José Parlá's Amistad America mural (Austin, TX), and many other projects. She has been the recipient of fellowships and residencies from the Deutsch-Amerikanische Fulbright-Kommission, New Zealand Pacific Studio, Fondation Jan Michalski, Fondation Thalie, and elsewhere (a full CV is available upon request). She holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers.

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UPCOMING EVENTS:

       october 24 — NYU, NYC, @ 7pm
       with matthew rohrer, jack underwood, & matthew zapruder

       october 30 — riffraff bookshop, providence, @ 6pm
       with jimin seo

       november 1: grolier poetry book shop, boston, @ 7pm
       sign up in advance to secure a seat!
       with zoë hitzig

       november 2, 7pm: flow chart foundation, hudson ny
       ***SPECIAL FULL LENGTH PERFORMANCE***
       with zach layton on john ashbery's piano!

       november 8, 7pm: poetry society of america, nyc
       with m.s. redcherries and francisco márquez


PREVIOUSLY:

       feb 8 2024: kemper museum, kansas city
       feb 10 2024: big mood natural wines, kansas city
       march 28 2024: magill reading, usc, los angeles
       april 2 2024: uc davis, california
       october 25, 2023: Prairie Lights with Eleni Sikelianos, iowa city, ia
       october 27 2023: NYU with Gillian Conoley, nyc, ny
       jan-april 2023: deep springs college
       march 8-12 2023: awp, seattle
       april 13-16 2023: phoenix poets festival, chicago
       august 6 2023: pickathon, oregon

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