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Paolo Javier

Title: Poet, Educator, and Independent Curator; Former Poet Laureate of Queens, NY

Institution: Independent (BFA University of British Columbia; MFA and MAT Bard College)

Discipline: Literature & Writing

Appearances: 1

Notable: Poet Laureate of Queens, New York (2010-2014); Small Press Traffic Book of the Year Award for the time at the end of this writing; Big Other Book Award for Poetry finalist for True Account of Talking to the 7 in Sunnyside; grants from Queens Council on the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts; profiled in The New Yorker

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Biography

Paolo Javier is a Filipinx American poet, educator, and independent curator who served as Poet Laureate of Queens, New York from 2010 to 2014. For more than ten years, he edited and published the experimental art and poetry journal 2nd Avenue Poetry. His collections include True Account of Talking to the 7 in Sunnyside (2022), O.B.B. (2021), and Court of the Dragon (2015).

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