Poetry Reading: Ellen Kombiyil & Sonia Greenfield

About this event

Join us at Subtext Books on Monday, October 26th at 7 PM to hear from poets Ellen Kombiyil and Sonia Greenfield! Ellen Kombiyil (she/her) is a visual artist, poet, and educator from the Bronx. She is the author of two books and two chapbooks, most recently Love as Invasive Species (Cornerstone 2024). She is a 2022 and 2025 recipient of a BRIO Award from the Bronx Council on the Arts, a 2025 winner of the Geri Digiorno Multi-Genre Prize, and 2025 winner of the Tupelo Quarterly Prize for Cross-Disciplinary Writing. She is an adjunct assistant professor at Hunter College. Find her at www.ellenkombiyil.com. Diagnostic on the Plumbing & Wiring of Females is a breathtaking and electric exercise in revisionism. Each page of erasure offers depth, texture, and story to an otherwise controversial publication, forcing the reader to look through its occluded windows, to see the “wayward and capricious” women who populate the centuries of metatext. Kombiyil does not just elude genre; she makes imag

Who

• Ellen KombiyilAuthor
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• Sonia GreenfieldAuthor
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Books

• Love As Invasive SpeciesEllen KombiyilBuy on Bookshop.org
• Diagnostic on the Plumbing & Wiring of FemalesEllen Kombiyil

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  All Possible HistoriesSonia GreenfieldBuy on Bookshop.org

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Venue

Subtext Bookstore

6 West 5th St.

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