Literati Reading Series 2018

Please join us for the final Literati reading of the year featuring Poets Leah Umansky and Adam J. Gellings!
Friday, November 16, 7pm
Phelps Mansion Museum, 191 Court Street, Binghamton

This free series is hosted in partnership by the Binghamton Center for Writers at Binghamton University and the Broome County Arts Council.

Leah Umansky is a teacher and poet in New York City. She is the author of four books of poetry, most recently, The Barbarous Century and earned her MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College. She is also the curator and host of The COUPLET Reading Series in NYC. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such places as POETRY, Guernica, The Bennington Review, The New York Times, Salamander, and the anthologies, The Eloquent Poem (Persea Books) and Misrepresented Peoples (NYQ Books). She is #teamkhaleesi & #teambernard. Her Game of Thrones inspired poems have been recently translated into Norweigan and Bengali. She is easy to find at @Lady_Bronte or www.leahumansky.com. She is #teamkhaleesi & #teambernard.

“Adam J. Gellings is a poet and instructor from Columbus, Ohio. A 2019 Pushcart Prize nominee, he is the recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the Marion Clayton Link Endowment at the State University of New York at Binghamton. His poems have appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including Atlanta Review, Prelude and Salamander, and in the anthologies Best New Poets 2017, A Rustling and Waking Within: Poems Inspired By The Arts in Ohio (OPA Press) and The Columbus Anthology (forthcoming, Belt Publishing). He received his MFA in Creative Writing from Ashland University.”