Co-organized by the Evergreen Review and Singapore Unbound
Featuring Africa Wayne, Jerome Murphy, R. A. Villanueva, and Cat Fitzpatrick
Open to All and Free with RSVP to Jee at jkoh@singaporeunbound.org
Location: Long Island City, NYC

In his pamphlet Democratic Vistas (1871), Walt Whitman scourges the hollowness at the heart of materialism and calls for a moral and spiritual renewal through the work of literature. We are again in a time of fantastic economic inequality and fascistic political takeover, and we call on poets and poetry to open again the highways and byways of democracy. 

Africa Wayne is the author of tiny pony and the editor of Dürer in the Window: Reflexions on Art, a selection of art writings by Barbara Guest. Her poems are published in Aufgabe and How2, and a new collection is forthcoming. 

Jerome Ellison Murphy is a poet and critic based in New York City. He earned his MFA from the Creative Writing Program at New York University, where he currently serves as Manager of Undergraduate Programs, while serving part-time as a Consulting Editor for Park, Fine & Brower Literary Agency. 

R. A. Villanueva is the author of two collections of poetry: A Holy Dread, winner of the Alice James Award (2026) and Reliquaria (University of Nebraska Press, 2014), winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. 

Cat Fitzpatrick is the Editrix at LittlePuss Press and teaches at Rutgers University—Newark. Her novel-in-rhyme The Call-Out won the 2023 Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Fiction. She has also published a collection of poems, Glamourpuss. Her next book, The Dinner Party: A Book About Love, is forthcoming from Seven Stories Press in 2026.