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We’re incredibly proud and excited to have Noah Arhm Choi @noah.arhm.choi, Ashna Ali @doctordushtu, and e.jin @edotjin representing Reorienting Reads @reorientingreads at JCPOFEST 2026. As a collective, their work cuts through boundaries, explores diasporic and queer identities, and reminds us of the transformative power of a shared room.

FOR TICKETS SEE LINK IN BIO

🗓 DATE & LOCATION
SATURDAY, SEP 26
Monira Foundation
at Mana Contemporary 888 Newark Avenue, Jersey City, NJ 07306

@monirafoundation
@manacontemporary

Noah Arhm Choi

Noah Arhm Choi is the author of Cut to Bloom, winner of the 2019 Jack McCarthy Prize. The 2026 Lambda Literary Poet-In-Residence and Valentines Editor for Honey Literary, they received an MFA from Sarah Lawrence, and their work appears in The Adroit Journal, Split this Rock, The Rumpus, Foglifter, and elsewhere. Noah was shortlisted for the Poetry International Prize and received the Ellen Conroy Kennedy Poetry Prize, alongside fellowships from Kundiman, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Adirondack Center for Writing. They serve on the Kundiman Board of Trustees and currently work at NYU Metro Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools. A K-12 educator of fifteen years, they work to embolden the intersection of education, activism, and the arts.

Ashna Ali

Ashna Ali is a queer and disabled poet, essayist, editor, translator, educator, and a child of the Bangladeshi diaspora raised in Italy and based in Brooklyn, New York. They are the author of The Relativity of Living Well (Bone Bouquet, 2024), and have work featured or forthcoming from Poem-A-Day, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Indiana Review, Sun Dog Lit, and beyond. They are the co-host of the poetry podcast, The Source, with Divya Victor, hosted by Asian American Writers Workshop (AAWW). They hold a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), and are an MFA Candidate in the low-residency program in Creative Writing at Randolph College, where they are a Nancy Blackburn ’71 Fellow. They also occasionally publish on their Substack, PAIN BABY.

e.jin

e.jin is a Chinese adoptee poet who lives in Queens, NY Noah Arhm Choi, Ashna Ali, e.jin taken in Jersey City, New Jersey by @edotjin

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I spent the end of may & beginning of june at a residency at @monson_arts !

1. the books I brought to the residency
2. I did an interview with the director of the residency :) (link in bio)
3. lake!!
4. from an optimism by @cawkward_rich
5. my studio!
6. lake, again!!
7. touching grass
8. from pleasure principle by @madeleinecravens
9. the poet
10. the poems by @edotjin

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mfa reveal 🙈🙉

gratitude to @eugenialeigh @warmanschool @revengerice and @chaetrain for supporting me through the application process!

I wrote about the way I'm approaching being in grad school this time around as an independent study, link in my bio to read more! by @edotjin

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1. REJECTION BY TONY TULATHIMUTTE BUT ALSO E.JIN
2-6. the art that's been moving me through the rejection!
7. finally, a win! I'll be a resident at Monson Arts for two weeks in May/June :-)
8-11. you, viewers of my IG stories, asked, & keith s. wilson answered! link to the q&a + this month's unschool mfa list in my bio 💗 by @edotjin

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6 months ago

the most beautiful rectangle in the world! there is so much to look forward to! my era of nonstop rejection may finally be ending!
link is in bio etc etc by @edotjin

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8 months ago

paper is done, soup is simmering on the stove, seasons are changing, time to rest! by @edotjin

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10 months ago

sadomodernism! by @edotjin

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Join Aishvarya Arora @cool_slug_, e.jin @edotjin, RL Wheeler @rl.wheeler, and Mimi Yang @yxmoonriver for the third iteration of Harvest, Accent’s fall reading series, on October 22!

Curated by @l.aetitia, Harvest celebrates creative friendships, and explores how our kinships with other artists nourish/shape/change/challenge/sustain our work, our practices, and our living.

Swipe right to learn more about the readers!

🍂 Event Details
Wednesday, October 22nd, 7:00PM
In person @accentsisters
89 5th Ave #702, NY 10002
Entry is pay what you want ($10 suggested)
RSVP via link in bio or by scanning the QR code

Poster designed by @melancholic_tomato by @edotjin

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4 years with you & no better place to celebrate than at your brother's straight wedding 🫶🏼 by @edotjin

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☁️☁️☁️lately, I’ve been dreaming about what it would look like if we had literary spaces of learning that weren’t driven by clout or prestige. I hope you'll join me (& invite your friends!)--link to sign up in my bio the school of
independent.study
CRAFT: a poetry knewledge share
I'll share the writing prompts & advice I learned at the summer writing workshop I went to that have *transformed* the way I think about metaphor, structure, & facing writer's block.
saturday, september 20th at 4-5pm est this will be online and cost $0 by @edotjin

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how it's been! taken in Manhattan, New York by @edotjin

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over the past few years, I've felt so much grief around the writing opportunities, relationships, and spaces I haven't been able to participate in because of the precautions I take to keep myself and my community safe from covid.

inspired by the covid conscious @leznightout has been hosting in queer spaces, I'm hosting a takeover of the craft talk Passwords: Mark Wunderlich on Mary Ruefle at poets house on thursday, 9/4 from 7-9 pm.

at the last reading I went to at poets house, a number of people (readers & audience members) were actually masked, and someone who was unmasked asked me why there were so many people wearing masks--by hosting this & future takeovers, I'm hoping to not only create community among covid conscious writers but also bring more awareness to the fact that we're still masking

covid conscious poetry craft talk takeover!
wear a mask, bring ur notebook, & hang out with other covid conscious writers :-)

last 2 images are @newlevant 's zine “What's Up with Covid and How to Protect Yourself" taken in Poets House by @edotjin

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