Events:
April 16: Yeats Prizes Judge Reading and Awards Ceremony (Barnes & Noble, Union Square, NYC)
April 26: “Amphibian” Book Party (Tradicionale, NYC. By Invitation.)
May 17: “Amphibian” & “Raga for the Fallen” by Vikas Menon Double-Book Party (Verlaine, NYC. By Invitation.)
May 28: Reading with Idra Novey & Carlie Hoffman (Book Culture, 112th St. + Broadway, NYC: Details/RSVP)
June 7: Pride Reading w/ Dante Micheaux and Yev Gelman (P&T Knitwear Bookstore, NYC: Details/Tickets)
June 12: Prideful Poetry (Flushing Town Hall, Queens: RSVP)
June 13-June 20: Faculty, Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, Ripton VT (Details)
Sept. 20, 6:00pm: Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event: Sunday Salon w/ Nita Noveno, Ed Lin & Alison Kinney @ Von Bar, Manhattan
Oct. 2, 7:00pm: Mentors + Mentees Reading w/ Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Noel Quinones & Grace Yanucci (Poets House, NYC)
Newsworthy:
“Like a postcolonial, hybrid kundiman (love song), the book is subtly political at times but mostly reads as the work of a writer in love with his subjects.”– from a powerful review of “Amphibian” in World Literature Today: https://worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/book-reviews/poet-cultivated-expatriate-joseph-o-legaspis-amphibian
January O’Neil interviews me for The Common: https://thecommononline.org/amphibious-living-january-oneil-interviews-joseph-o-legaspi/
“…the power of Legaspi’s storytelling … is crafted with great tenderness and vulnerability, linguistic dexterity and skillful precision.” — From a wonderful full-page review of Amphibian in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette!
Reading of “Aurora Frog” on the World Literature Today podcast (@ about 27 mins.): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9SfV_Q0ziY
https://orionmagazine.org/article/creatures-of-water-and-night/
https://lithub.com/looking-ahead-to-the-most-anticipated-poetry-of-2026/
Joseph O. Legaspi 