06/15/2026
Poetry Hell
Home Sweet Home Bar
131 Chrystie St, NYC
Saturday, 6/20, 5pm
Michael Cavuto is a poet living in Ridgewood, Queens. His latest book is Pyre (Spiral Editions, 2025), and he is the founding editor of the Slow Poetry in America Newsletter and auric press.
Garrett Phelps was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1990. His work has been published by various outlets on- and offline, including Blush, The Brooklyn Rail, The Poetry Project Newsletter, and Fence. He lives in New York City.
Rebecca Teich is a writer, curator, and PhD student in English at the CUNY Graduate Center. Teich is the recipient of the 2023 Graduate Student Paper Award from the CLAGS and is a 2023 and 2024 archival research fellow through the Lost & Found Archival Research Grant. Currently the co-curator of Desperate Living Reading Series with Ry Dunn, Teich curated the Fall 2018 and 2019 Segue Reading Series, and was Artists Space's teaching-poet-in-residence 2019–2021. Teich's writing has been featured in Women’s Studies Quarterly, The Kitchen Magazine; Peach Magazine's Invitation to Form: Epic Mix; BOMB Magazine, The LA Review of Books, The Poetry Project Newsletter, and elsewhere. Teich is the author of the chapbook Caffeine Chronicles, Vessels for Water, and co-author of Shared Discernments with Kimberly Alidio.
Amalia Tenuta is a poet, labor, and anti-war organizer based in the Twin Cities. She is the author of the chapbook The Primitive Accumulation of Realness (Dead Mall Press 2023).
Lev Xue lives with the dog Poopy Xue and is trying to do a lot of sports -- climbing, fishing, jujitsu, skateboarding, ping pong, basketball, dancing -- and is trying to build a vocabulary of movement, and thinking and feeling while moving.