H. MacKnight Black Poetry Reading: Alex Dimitrov & Student Winners

Alex Dimitrov is the author of Love and Other Poems, published in 2021, Together and by Ourselves, and Begging for It. He is also the author of the recent book, Astro Poets, co-written with Dorothea Lasky. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, The Paris Review, and Poetry. Dimitrov has taught creative writing and literature at Bennington College, Columbia University and Rutgers University-New Brunswick. He is the Senior Content Editor at the Academy of American Poets where he edits the popular online series Poem-a-Day and American Poets magazine. In 2009 Dimitrov founded Wilde Boys, a queer poetry salon which he ran until 2013 in New York City, where he lives.