Triptych Readings brings together emerging and established writers for brief and luminous readings in New York City's East Village. All readings are free and open to the public.

We hold regular monthly readings in the spring and fall at the 11th Street Bar, 510 East 11th Street, between Avenues A&B. Unless otherwise noted, all readings begin at 7 pm.

Triptych Readings was founded by Kaveh Bassiri and Mary Austin Speaker, former curators of Reading Between A&B, and is currently curated by Justin Petropoulos, Anne Lovering Rounds and Robin Beth Schaer, who promise to continue to bring you thoughtfully curated evenings of poetry celebrating the diversity of voice, aesthetic, philosophy, nationality, tone, politic, persuasion, race and gender that poetry offers. We hope you'll stop by, grab a pint, and listen up.

We hope to establish an audio archive of our readings on our site or through iTunes. Check back often to find out more about that.

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Alina Gregorian

Alina Gregorian's poems have been published in Boston Review, GlitterPony, H_NGM_N, and other journals. She edits the collaboration journal Bridge.

Ted Dodson

Ted Dodson is a founding editor and curator of On the Escape, a filmed journal, and is an editor and the special projects coordinator for Futurepoem. He is from Middleburg, VA.

Camilo Roldan

Camilo Roldan's poems have appeared in Lungfull!, PANK, and other magazines. He is the author of a tranlsation chapbook, "Amilkar U., Nadaista in Translation" (These Signals Press, 2011).

Justin Petropoulos

Justin Petropoulos is the author of Eminent Domain, which was selected by Anne Waldman for 2011's Marsh Hawk Press Poetry prize. His poems have appeared in A cappella Zoo, American Letters & Commentary, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Crab Creek Review, Gulf Coast, Mandorla and Portland Review. He received his MFA from Indiana University. He lives in Brooklyn.

Anne Lovering Rounds

Anne Lovering Rounds holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University and a B.A. in English and Classics from the University of Chicago. She is currently a senior editorial assistant at the New York offices of Cambridge University Press, and is also communications director for the Argento New Music Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to performing and disseminating contemporary music. She has taught English at Metropolitan College of New York and at Fordham University, and her scholarship has appeared in the journal Literary Imagination.

Kaveh Bassiri

Kaveh Bassiri has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, where he was the Editor of the 2006 issue of its graduate literary journal, Lumina. He was also a co-curator of the poetry series, Reading Between A and B and is currently a co-curator of Shab-e She'r, Night of Persian Poetry, at Bowery Poetry Club. His writing recently won the Bellingham Review's 49th Parallel Award. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Arkansas.

Mary Austin Speaker

Mary Austin Speaker is the author of the chapbooks In The End There Were Thousands of Cowboys and Abandoning the Firmament (Menagerie Editions 2009 and 2010). Her work has received awards from Iowa Review, Diner, Seattle Review and the Academy of American Poets. One of her essays can be found at Last Exit. Recent poetry can be found in recent issues of Sentence, Boston Review, New Orleans Review, Konundrum Literary Engine Review and H_NGM_N. She lives in Brooklyn with the poet Chris Martin, and works as art director for Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.