poems*

forthcoming in Second Factory

❦ THE BOY, SUDS zine volume 4, 2026 (hear audio below)
❦ DOLPHIN HOUSE, mercury firs issue 8, 2026
❦ 2 poems, ANMLY #42, 2026
❦ BEFORE WE HAD EYES, petrichor 10th Anniversary Issue, 2026
❦ A SYSTEM OF EQUATIONS WITH ■ AS PROXY, Palette Poetry, 2026
❦ 3 Poems , #RANGER magazine Issue 13, 2025
❦ 3 Poems, Noir Sauna Issue 6, 2025
❦ 'Performance Map' and 5 poems, The Poetry Project Newsletter #279, asemic, 2025
❦ ECDYSIS, Fine Print Press Issue 14, 2024

honors + awards*

❦ 1st Place Winner of the 2025 Palette Poetry Prize, Palette Poetry
❦ 2024 Nominee for the Pushcart Prize, through Fine Print Press

fellowships*

❦ VSC Writing Residency Fellow Johnson, VT 2026
❦ Emerge-Surface-Be Fellow, The Poetry Project, NY. Mentored under Rainer Diana Hamilton 2024-2025
❦ Public Ceramics BIPOC Fellow, Gasworks Studio, NY 2024

readings + performances*

UPCOMING ✶⋆.˚
❦ Poetry Hell presented by Segue Foundation, August 8th at Home Sweet Home, NY

❦ Alchemize: A Trans Poetry Night , May 29th at Dear Friend Books , NY 2026
❦ PRINT IS DEAD : a small press reading with Birdcoat Quarterly, Fine Print Press, and Ghost Peach Press
( x / x ), AWP offsite reading at Old Major Bar, MD 2026
❦ Love Letters: a Night of Poetry, reading at Housing Works bookstore, NY 2026
❦ 'Brilliance of Unbeing' chapbook launch, reading at Mil Mundos, NY 2025
❦ CJ Chavarria & Car Lara ( x / x ) , reading w/ live musical accompaniments by Hayden Nork at St. Marks Church in-the-Bowery, NY 2025
❦ the 51st Annual New Year's Day Marathon ( x ) , reading & sonic performance piece at St. Marks Church in-the-Bowery, NY 2025
❦ Fine Print Press Issue 14 release party, reading at Yes We Cannibal, LA 2024 (flyer below)

© salted teeth 2024

other publications*

❦ Layli Long Soldier on the Vast Shores of Poetry
Interview, Poets House 2026
❦ Shanzhai Lyric on Endless Garment and the Joy
of Unfurling Language
Interview, Poets House 2026
❦ Roque Raquel Salas Rivera on Myth-Making in Algarabía Interview, Poets House 2026
❦ charles theonia on Remixing Queer Archives
Interview, Poets House 2026

audio*

readings / performances realized by AUTO*MATÓN: "a sound collective, composed of Queens (Lenapehoking) born poet / artist c. melín lara & New Haven (Quinnipiac, Paugussett, Wappinger) based sound collagist Hayden "WIND" Nork."

❦ U (ELEGÍA), audio poem 2026

❦ THE BOY, audio poem, featured in SUDS zine vol. 4 2026

misc. projects*

❦ A SYSTEM OF EQUATIONS WITH ■ AS PROXY
poetry, performance, 2025
❦ Performance Masks ceramic, performance, 2024-25
❦ Si / Sí video art piece, 2022

group shows*

❦ Reflections from Home, The Living Space, NY 2025

programming*

❦ Literary Coordinator, Poets House — “Poet as Witness: Central American Poetics”, Conceived and pitched program; coordinated outreach and promotion, developed visual materials, and curated a lineup of poets for a public literary event engaging themes of Central American poetics and cultural witness.

teaching*

❦ Support Teacher for Roots of Resistance, an all ages zine-making workshop inspired by The Warehouse exhibition at the Bedford Branch of Brooklyn Public Library, inviting participants to create handmade books exploring incarceration, resistance, and abolition. Held in collaboration with Booklyn.
❦ Co-facilitator of Mixte-Zines, a free 8-session zine making workshop held at Mixteca, a community-based organization servicing the Latin American immigrant community of Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Held in collaboration with Booklyn, zines concern: Updates on migration policies, Know your rights and Family preparedness in case of detention.
❦ Fragments of Home: a Zine Lab on Immigrant Voices and Visual Poetics, A free 5-session bilingual workshop, conceived of & conducted as a co-teaching artist w/ BCCP. Explored the intersections of language, visual art & immigrant experiences through the lens of experimental poetry. Hosted at Thomas Jefferson High School in East New York, Brooklyn in 2024.

education*

❦ B.A SUNY Purchase College, 2022
❦ Craft of Poetry: Form and Revision, Baruch College, 2018
❦ NYS Summer Writer Institute Skidmore College, 2017

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