According to former U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, “Jason Schneiderman is one of our nation’s best poets,” and his latest collection, Self Portrait of Icarus as a Country on Fire (Red Hen, 2024) stands out as “his finest book yet.”
Schneiderman is the author of five highly acclaimed poetry collections, and the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including a Fulbright Fellowship and the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America. He is also the author of Teaching Writing Through Poetry: An Introduction to Poetic Form (Bloomsbury 2025), and a book of essays, Nothingism: Poetry at the End of Print Culture (University of Michigan Poets on Poetry 2025), and he edited the anthology Queer: A Reader for Writers (Oxford UP 2016). Schneiderman’s poetry and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry, Poetry London, and The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, and he is professor of English at the CUNY’s BMCC and teaches in the M.F.A. program for writers at Warren Wilson College.
Schneiderman’s reading will be followed by a conversation with S. Brook Corfman in Weinstein Auditorium in Wright Hall on Tuesday, October 27 at 7 p.m. Free and open to the public. Livestream also available on the BDPC YouTube page.
