Poetry Reading: Hannah Brooks-Motl, David Seung, and Alan Felsenthal

Join us for a reading and conversation featuring The Song Cave authors, Hannah Brooks-Motl and David Seung, with The Song Cave Editor and Co-Publisher, Alan Felsenthal, who will host and moderate the event.

Hannah Brooks-Motl was born and raised in Wisconsin. She is author of the poetry collections The New Years (2014), M(2015), Earth (2019), and Ultraviolet of the Genuine (2025), as well as chapbooks from the Song Cave, arrow as aarow, and The Year. She lives in western Massachusetts.

David Seung, author of Silkworm's Pansori (The Song Cave, 2025), is a second-generation Korean-American writer and stand-up comedian, championing his hometown of Portland, Oregon through his tour company, Side Dish Mafia Food Tours. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Portland State University, where he now in turn teaches as an adjunct. His work has been featured in Harper's Magazine.

Alan Felsenthal is the author of Hereafter (The Song Cave, 2024) and Lowly (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017). His writing has appeared in BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, Harper’s, The New York Review of Books, and The New York Times Magazine. He is the the editor of Bookworm: Conversations with Michael Silverblatt (The Song Cave, 2023) and the co-editor of A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind: The Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton (The Song Cave, 2013). He currently teaches poetry at NYU Tandon School of Engineering.

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Presented as part of our series Visions in Publishing with support from the NEA

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