Sunday, November 8, 2020 - Kathy Engel (via Zoom)

Kathy Engel is a poet who has worked for nearly forty years at the nexus between social justice movements and art/imagination. Founder of the women’s human rights group, MADRE, she has co-founded numerous other groups and projects, including Riptide Communications, Poets for Ayiti and the Hayground School.  She worked as a strategic, development and communications consultant, and convener and producer for social justice and human rights groups for many years. Her books include “Ruth’s Skirts,” poems and prose, IKON, 2007, “We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon,” co- edited with Kamal Boullata, Interlink Books, 2007, “The Kitchen” with art by German Perez, Yaboa Press, 2002,and  the chapbook, “Banish The Tentative” 1989.

Associate Arts Professor in the Department of Art & Public Policy, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, Engel co-founded, led and consulted with, wrote and spoke for numerous organizations and campaigns.

In 2018 Engel coordinated an installation with Mark Read, Pamela Tinnen, and poet/editor Melissa Tuckey, in conversation with the eco justice poetry anthology ghost fishing, 2018, https://ghostfishingnyu.info

Her new book, The Lost Bother Alphabet, was published by Get Fresh Books, March 2020.