APRIL 23 • 8PM
THE URBANE ARTS CLUB
Diane Mehta was born in Frankfurt and grew up in Bombay and New Jersey. She is the author of the essay collection Happier Far (UGA Press 2025) and two poetry books: Tiny Extravaganzas (Arrowsmith Press, 2023) and Forest with Castanets (Four Way Books, 2019). She has written for The New Yorker, VQR, Kenyon Review, and A Public Space. Her writing has been supported by the Café Royal Cultural Foundation and fellowships at Civitella Ranieri, Yaddo, and VCCA. She was an editor at A Public Space, PEN America, and Guernica. She is poet in residence at the New Chamber Ballet in New York City. She was a judge for the 2024 Arrowsmith-Derek Walcott Poetry Prize and for the 2025 Silvers-Dudley prizes (NYRB Silvers Foundation) for literary criticism, arts writing, and journalism.
JoAnna Novak is the author of seven books, most recently, Domestirexia: Poems. Her short story collection Meaningful Work won the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest and was published by FC2. She is also the author of the memoir, Contradiction Days: An Artist on the Verge of Motherhood; the novel I Must Have You; and three additional books of poetry: New Life; Abeyance, North America; and Noirmania. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and other publications.
Timothy Ree is the author of BEASTING (2022), a debut collection of poetry conceived during the pandemic, both surreal & grounded in the particularities of Korean American experience, exploring race, politics, & family dynamics at the height of the plague where anti-Asian rhetoric & violence found its way around the globe. The son of Korean immigrants, Tim teaches literature & writing at a public high school in Brooklyn. He has received grants & fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Cave Canem, Poets House, Academy for Teachers, & the Bread Loaf School of English. He is at work on his second collection of poetry.
Anton Solomonik is a writer and illustrator living in Brooklyn. His writing has appeared in Lithub, Evergreen Review, and Epiphany Magazine, and his first book, Realistic Fiction, has just been published with Littlepuss Press. He’s the co-host of the World Transsexual Forum, a discussion panel and open mic series for trans artists. His work has been described as, “Whimsical, yet heavy-handed. It’s just like reading the Constance Garnett translation of Dostoyevsky.” You can follow him on bluesky or instagram: @aaantons.
Free with RSVP. Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8pm.
