Queensbound

QUEENSBOUND is an audio poetry project by, for, and about Queens. Founded in 2018, QUEENSBOUND seeks to connect writers across the borough, showcase and develop Queens literature, and reflect the borough back to itself. We have released four editions of the project and, in 2025, launched our podcast that includes poems from all four editions along with station stop announcements. Our 2020 edition was the first to include a poem in a language other than English, Shams A. Momin’s “Queens,” a poem in Bengali and English. Our 2024 edition included poems in Nepali, Japanese, Spanish, and Ukrainian, along with their English translations. QUEENSBOUND is independently produced in New York City by KC Trommer. To date, the project has been supported by individual donations and by Flushing Town Hall, the Queens Council on the Arts, the Queens Museum, and Onassis USA. The project has been a finalist for a Creative Capital Award, an NYU Digital Seed Humanities Grant, and the David Prize.