Reuben Gelley Newman
About
Reuben Gelley Newman (he/they) is the author of the chapbook Feedback Harmonies (Seven Kitchens Press). He is a writer, musician, editor, and librarian-in-training based in New York City. His poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Salamander, Fairy Tale Review, Northwest Review, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. You can find him online @joustingsnail (Instagram and Twitter), & on Bluesky he posts at @joustingsnail.bsky.social. He's also trying to fiddle more with his Substack: "To fling out broad its name: Poetry, Sound, Libraries."
Additional Information
Reuben is a 2021 graduate of Swarthmore College, where he was awarded multiple honors for his writing and academic excellence. Previous literary experience includes and internship at Copper Canyon Press and a role as a content editor at the Adroit Journal. As a singer, he sang in the Manhattan-based chamber chorus Amor Artis, was a soloist with the Swarthmore College Chorus, and performed at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with Critical Mass, a college early music group he led. He also gave a joint senior recital at Swarthmore with soprano and composer Hannah Cai Sobel, a frequent collaborator who has set his poems to music. He's a fan of green tea, em dashes, and fretted instruments—from guitar to viola da gamba—and works at the New York Public Library.