Introduced by Timothy Donnelly, Tracie Morris, Sophie Herron, and Ricardo Maldonado, the winners of 92NY’s 2023 Discovery Poetry Contest—Lucas Jorgensen, Saba Keramati, Jenna Lanzaro, and JJ Peña—read selected poems for this celebratory reading. “I open my mouth. Instead of a scream, a hundred / jasmine petals take wing,” reads Keramati from her poem “The Dream.”
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