Kendra Sullivan and Alexandra Egan Poetry Reading

Kendra Sullivan is a poet, a public artist, and an activist scholar. She is Director of the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she helps run the NYC Climate Justice Hub, the CUNY Climate Assembly Project, and the Public Scholarship Practice Space (PS2). She is the publisher of Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative and a managing director at Women’s Studies Quarterly. Kendra has published her writing on art, environment, and engagement widely—her most recent oped in City Limits calls on civic leaders to help make CUNY the climate justice university of New York. She is the co-founder of the Sunview Luncheonette, a cooperative arts venue in Greenpoint, Brooklyn; and a member of Mare Liberum, an eco-art collective producing public art that addresses access and equity issues on urban waterways in cities around the world. Kendra holds a PhD in English and an MA in Sustainability and Environmental Education from the CUNY Graduate Center. Her poetry books include Zero Point Dream Poems (Doublecross Press) and Reps (Ugly Duckling Presse).

Alexandra Egan is a poet, designer, activist, editor, scavenger, an expert in trash, a perpetual party host and a mother. These are not in order of importance. She lives with her daughter in Bed Stuy.