For more information on Standard Talks’ poets, please see below:
Cleo Wade
Cleo Wade is an artist and poet working across mediums, creating empowering messages to provide emotional responses from viewers, blending positivity, femininity and arresting honesty. Cleo exhibited her work in both solo and group shows in Paris, New Orleans, and New York, and her first art publication “Falling Out of You is Eternal” was published in 2014. Cleo provides cross-industry creative and art direction, and most recently directed the music video for Margot’s “No One’s Gonna Miss You”. As a dedicated advocate of female empowerment, Cleo has spoken at New York University’s “Women on Move” Panel and sits on the board of National Black Theatre. Cleo is a founding member of all female art collective Conversations, editor-at-large for Voyage d’Etudes, and resides in New York City.
Hettie Jones
Brooklyn born poet and prose writer Hettie Jones’ first collection of poems, Drive (Hanging Loose Press, 1997) was selected by Naomi Shihab Nye to receive the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. She is the aurthor of How I Became Hettie Jones (1990), am memoir of the beat scene of the fifties and sixties, as well as her marriage to acclaimed poet, LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka. With LeRoi Jones, she established Yugen, a magazine that published poetry and writing by William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and more.
Andrew Durbin
Andrew Durbin is the author of Mature Themes (Nightboat Books, 2014) and several chapbooks, including Believers (Poor Claudia, 2013). His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in BOMB, The Boston Review, Conjunctions, Fence, TripleCanopy, and more. He co-edits Wonder, curates the New Agendas reading series at Macie Gransion.
Michael Anzuoni
Michael Anzuoni, an interdisciplinary author and artist is the founder of Inpatient Press and is current an artist-in-resident at the Metropolitan Museum of Art MediaLab.