7:30p ◣
Join us for a celebratory reading to memorialize Archestratus and Poetry Table. A recital of sorts! with Ariela Gittlen, Matthew Gellman, Alyssa Jorgensen, + Maja Lukic.
Matthew Gellman is a poet. He earned his BA from Skidmore College and his MFA from Columbia University. Gellman is the author of The Understudy (Four Way Books, 2027) and Beforelight (BOA Editions, 2024). He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. A PhD candidate at the University of Southern California, Gellman lives in Los Angeles.
Ariela Gittlen is a writer and designer living in New York. Her poems and essays can be found in Southern Indiana Review, No, Dear, The New York Times Magazine, and Epiphany, where her poetry was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is the author of Hard Feelings(Episodes, 2026), a small book about birth, death, and television. She is a 2026 Brooklyn Poets Fellow.
Alyssa Jorgensen is a writer who lives in New York by way of Texas and California. Her poetry has appeared in Oberon Poetry Magazine. Her brand work has been seen across Vogue, Elle, Art Basel, and global campaigns for Movado.
Maja Lukic’s poems have appeared in West Branch, New England Review, A Public Space, The Adroit Journal, Colorado Review, Bennington Review, Image, Sixth Finch, Copper Nickel, Poetry Northwest, Brooklyn Poets, the Slowdown podcast, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in poetry from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She lives in Brooklyn and currently serves as assistant poetry editor at Narrative Magazine and as editor of Four Way Books’ Translator's Page.
About Poetry Table:
Poetry Table at Archestratus was a place to write poetry and a place to be with other writers.
A low stakes environment for one's experiments, a place to meet fellow writers in the hood, and a way to establish a regular practice.
The group is led, founded, and continued by friend of Arch and Brooklyn writer Ariela Gittlen.
We can't wait to see you! Email information@archestrat.us with questions.
