Overhear Poetry Reading

Matt Longabucco is the author of the poetry collection Heroic Dose and of M/W: An essay on Jean Eustache’s La maman et la putain, a book-length study of a landmark of French cinema and its creator. The Hummingbird is forthcoming from Nightboat Books in October 2026.

Leanne Tory-Murphy is an organizer and writer who has worked across the fields of labor and migration for more than two decades. She is currently a PhD student in Environmental Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center. Leanne was a Fulbright grantee in Italy, a recipient of the Tow Grant for International Research in Chile and is a recent graduate of the MFA in Poetry at Brooklyn College. Her manuscript, 'Sea Above,' draws from the work of Chilean poet Raul Zurita and other artists working under the Pinochet dictatorship. As a Social Practice CUNY fellow, Leanne began to develop 'A Future Language', a poetic practice that draws on the practice of walking pilgrimage…