2026 Workshop Series: November

Passenger Poems
facilitated by danilo machado
Monday, November 9, 2026
7-9pm EST
Zoom

the workshop:

Subway, bus, and train rides are our everyday as poets living in New York. They bring us to places we need to and want to go; blurring between public and private, between meditative and chaotic. They (under)ground us in place, but also seem to exist in a unique plane both bigger and smaller than our city. How can these in-between spaces of proximity and connection become the subject of poems? We’ll read transit poems by Liv Mammone, Louis Bury, Hala Alyan, Joseph O. Legaspi, and others, then write our own. 

the facilitator:

danilo machado (he/they) is a poet, curator, and Leo living on occupied land, interested in language’s potential for revealing tenderness, erasure, and relationships to power. A 2020-2021 Poetry Project Emerge-Surface-Be Fellow and 2024 NYC Poets Afloat Fellow, their writing has been featured by Poem-A-Day, Hyperallergic, Art in America, Art Papers, Futch, GenderFail, among others. They are the author of the collection This is your receipt and is not a ticket for travel (Faint Line Press, 2023) and three chaplets part of the Ghost City Press Summer Series (2022-2024). They also write the Post Post Post newsletter on Substack and co-organized the Long Poem Support Group with Ry Cook from 2022-225. With Charlie Marie Kohl, danilo co-founded exquisites, a queer reading, workshop, and anthology series. Since 2024, danilo has served on the Board of Directors for No, Dear Magazine. He has written many poems riding the train, bus, subway, and -- most luxuriously -- ferry. 

Headshot by Charlie Marie Kohl

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