Poets House Presents: Joey De Jesus

Poet, performer and politician Joey De Jesus performs a passage of NOCT— The Threshold of Madness (The Atlas Review, 2019), from Ridgewood, Queens.

Joey De Jesus is the author of HOAX (Operating System, 2020+), NOCT— The Threshold of Madness (The Atlas Review, 2019), and co-author, alongside Sade LaNay, of Writing Voice into the Archive vol. 1, organized and edited by Jennifer Tamayo with support from UC Berkeley’s Center for Race and Gender. Joey co-edits poetry at Apogee Journal, is an Advisory Board Member at No, Dear Magazine, and received the 2019-20 BRIC ArtFP Project Room Commission and 2017 NYFA/NYSCA Fellowship in Poetry. Poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poet’s Poem-A-Day, Bettering American Poetry, Barrow Street, BOAAT, The Brooklyn Rail, among other venues. Poems have been performed and/or installed in Artists Space, Basilica Soundscape, The New Museum, The Poetry Project and elsewhere. Joey lives in Ridgewood, Queens, where they ran for NY State Assembly District 38.

Poets House Presents is a series of 10 minute readings by poets that are posted on Twitter, Facebook, IGTV, YouTube and our Archive, on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon.