Announcing interim executive director

A Gathering of the Tribes is proud to name Regie Cabico as Interim Executive Director.

Regie Cabico first connected with A Gathering of the Tribes more than twenty years ago. He has served as a vital member of our board for the last three years.

Regie Cabico is the first Asian American and openly queer poet to win the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam.

As a theater artist, his solo plays have been presented at The Public Theater Joe's Pub, The Humana Theater Festival, The Magic Theater & Washington Shakespeare Theater, among others. He is the recipient of a Writers for Writers award from Poets & Writers for his work teaching young adults at Bellevue Hospital.

He is a former literary curator for The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, Dixon Place, and for nearly two decades co-curated Come Hear, a queer reading marathon as part of Rainbow Book Fair, with Nathaniel Siegel  He is the recipient of a Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers for his work teaching young adults at Bellevue Hospital with Urban Word NYC. He is a founding board member of Split This Rock and co-produced Capturing Fire, a queer international poetry slam, and Capfire Press in Washington, DC.   

He co-edited Poetry Nation: An North American Anthology of Fusion Poetry (Vehicule Press) with Todd Swift, and Flicker & Spark: A Contemporary Queer  Anthology of Queer Poetry of Spoken Word with Brittany Fonte for which they received a Lambda Award nomination. and Super Stoked: An Anthology of Queer Poetry from The Capturing Fire Slam and Summit. He's received several fellowships from The Ford Foundation, The New York Foundation for the Arts, and the DC Commission for the Arts and Humanities.  He is a former Artist in residence at NYU's  Asian Pacific American Studies and has been on faculty at Kundiman, Banff Arts Center, and is presently a lead spoken word poetry performance and writing educator at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. His poetry appears in Poetry, The Georgia Review, and Asian American Literary Review for which he received a Pushcart nomination, among others. Most recent anthologies include He, She, They, Us (Pan Macmillan) and We the Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Spoken Word, Performance and Poetry ((Haymarket) and the author of A Rabbit In Search of a Rolex (Day Eight, 2023).

Mr Cabico can be reached at info@tribes.org.