The Best American Poetry

Monday @ KGB: the Manhattan Review

The KGB Monday Night Poetry Reading Series
Hosted by Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez & Michael Quattrone Presents . . .

The Manhattan Review

An evening with the Manhattan Review. Editor Phillip Fried will introduce British and American poets: Jeanne Marie Beaumont, James Byrne, Baron Wormser, Martha Kapos, Angie Estes, Roddy Lumsden, and D. Nurkse.

For the complete KGB fall lineup, click here

An evening with the Manhattan Review. Editor Phillip Fried will introduce British and American poets: Jeanne Marie Beaumont, James Byrne, Baron Wormser, Martha Kapos, Angie Estes, Roddy Lumsden, and D. Nurkse.

For the complete KGB fall lineup, click here

Monday @ KGB: Charles North & John Koethe

The KGB Monday Night Poetry Reading Series
Hosted by Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez & Michael Quattrone Presents . . .
Charles North & John Koethe
Monday, October 26 @ 7:30 PM
Admission is FREE

Monday @ KGB: Ernest Hilbert & Sharon Mesmer

The KGB Monday Night Poetry Reading Series

Hosted by Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez & Michael Quattrone

Presents . . .

Ernest Hilbert & Sharon Mesmer

Monday, October 19 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

Ernest Hilbert is the editor of the Contemporary Poetry Review. He was educated at Oxford University, where he edited the Oxford Quarterly. He later became the poetry editor for Random House’s magazine Bold Type in New York City. He is an antiquarian book dealer in Philadelphia, where he lives with his wife, an archaeologist. He hosts the popular blog and video show www.everseradio.com. His debut collection is Sixty Sonnets (2009).

Sharon Mesmer is a Fulbright Senior Specialist candidate and recipient of two New York Foundation for the Arts poetry fellowships. The Virgin Formica (Hanging Loose) and Annoying Diabetic Bitch (Combo Books) were published in 2008. Here blog is available online and elsewhere.

For the complete KGB fall lineup, click here.

Presents . . .

Ernest Hilbert & Sharon Mesmer

Monday, October 19 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

Ernest Hilbert is the editor of the Contemporary Poetry Review. He was educated at Oxford University, where he edited the Oxford Quarterly. He later became the poetry editor for Random House’s magazine Bold Type in New York City. He is an antiquarian book dealer in Philadelphia, where he lives with his wife, an archaeologist. He hosts the popular blog and video show www.everseradio.com. His debut collection is Sixty Sonnets (2009).

Sharon Mesmer is a Fulbright Senior Specialist candidate and recipient of two New York Foundation for the Arts poetry fellowships. The Virgin Formica (Hanging Loose) and Annoying Diabetic Bitch (Combo Books) were published in 2008. Here blog is available online and elsewhere.

For the complete KGB fall lineup, click here.

Presents . . .

Ernest Hilbert & Sharon Mesmer

Monday, October 19 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

Ernest Hilbert is the editor of the Contemporary Poetry Review. He was educated at Oxford University, where he edited the Oxford Quarterly. He later became the poetry editor for Random House’s magazine Bold Type in New York City. He is an antiquarian book dealer in Philadelphia, where he lives with his wife, an archaeologist. He hosts the popular blog and video show www.everseradio.com. His debut collection is Sixty Sonnets (2009).

Sharon Mesmer is a Fulbright Senior Specialist candidate and recipient of two New York Foundation for the Arts poetry fellowships. The Virgin Formica (Hanging Loose) and Annoying Diabetic Bitch (Combo Books) were published in 2008. Here blog is available online and elsewhere.

For the complete KGB fall lineup, click here.

Ernest Hilbert & Sharon Mesmer

Monday, October 19 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

Ernest Hilbert is the editor of the Contemporary Poetry Review. He was educated at Oxford University, where he edited the Oxford Quarterly. He later became the poetry editor for Random House’s magazine Bold Type in New York City. He is an antiquarian book dealer in Philadelphia, where he lives with his wife, an archaeologist. He hosts the popular blog and video show www.everseradio.com. His debut collection is Sixty Sonnets (2009).

Sharon Mesmer is a Fulbright Senior Specialist candidate and recipient of two New York Foundation for the Arts poetry fellowships. The Virgin Formica (Hanging Loose) and Annoying Diabetic Bitch (Combo Books) were published in 2008. Here blog is available online and elsewhere.

For the complete KGB fall lineup, click here.

Ernest Hilbert & Sharon Mesmer

Monday, October 19 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

Ernest Hilbert is the editor of the Contemporary Poetry Review. He was educated at Oxford University, where he edited the Oxford Quarterly. He later became the poetry editor for Random House’s magazine Bold Type in New York City. He is an antiquarian book dealer in Philadelphia, where he lives with his wife, an archaeologist. He hosts the popular blog and video show www.everseradio.com. His debut collection is Sixty Sonnets (2009).

Sharon Mesmer is a Fulbright Senior Specialist candidate and recipient of two New York Foundation for the Arts poetry fellowships. The Virgin Formica (Hanging Loose) and Annoying Diabetic Bitch (Combo Books) were published in 2008. Here blog is available online and elsewhere.

For the complete KGB fall lineup, click here.

Ernest Hilbert is the editor of the Contemporary Poetry Review. He was educated at Oxford University, where he edited the Oxford Quarterly. He later became the poetry editor for Random House’s magazine Bold Type in New York City. He is an antiquarian book dealer in Philadelphia, where he lives with his wife, an archaeologist. He hosts the popular blog and video show www.everseradio.com. His debut collection is Sixty Sonnets (2009).

Sharon Mesmer is a Fulbright Senior Specialist candidate and recipient of two New York Foundation for the Arts poetry fellowships. The Virgin Formica (Hanging Loose) and Annoying Diabetic Bitch (Combo Books) were published in 2008. Here blog is available online and elsewhere.

For the complete KGB fall lineup, click here.

Monday @ KGB: Sandra Simonds & Amy Lemmon

The KGB Monday Night Poetry Reading Series
Hosted by Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez & Michael Quattrone

Presents . . .

Sandra Simonds & Amy Lemmon

Monday, October 12 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

Sandra Simonds is the author of Warsaw Bikini (Bloof Books, 2009) and several chapbooks--Tomorrow’s Bright Bracelets (forthcoming, Kitchen Press), The Pyrotechnics of Madame Trotter (forthcoming, Coconut), Bananas and Spiders (forthcoming, H_NGM_N), A Teeny Tiny Book of War (Teeny Tiny, 2008), The Humble Travelogues of Mr. Ian Worthington (Cy Gist, 2007) and The Tar Pit Diatoms (Otoliths, 2006)--as well as the founder of Wildlife, an experimental, handmade poetry magazine. She earned a BA in English and Psychology from UCLA and an MFA from the University of Montana. She is currently a PhD student in Creative Writing at Florida State University. For more information, visit her blog at ssandrasimonds.blogspot.com.

 Amy Lemmon is the author of two collections of poetry, Fine Motor (Sow's Ear Poetry Review Press, 2008) and Saint Nobody (Red Hen Press, 2008). Her poems and essay have appeared in Rolling Stone, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Verse, Marginalia, and other magazines. Her poem "Karyotype" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the editors of Barrow Street and published as a limited edition broadside (created by artist Amber McMillan) by the Center for Book Arts. She has contributed reviews and articles to New Letters, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry, and the Facts on File Companion to Twentieth-Century British Poetry. In 2006 she was awarded the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Prize by Red Hen Press. Work from ABBA:The Poems, a sequence written in collaboration with Denise Duhamel, appears in The Birmingham Review, Paterson Literary Review, and at lafovea.org. She is poetry editor of the online literary magazine Ducts.org. Amy holds a PhD in English/Creative Writing from the University of Cincinnati and is Assistant Chair of the English and Speech Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

Presents . . .

Sandra Simonds & Amy Lemmon

Monday, October 12 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

Sandra Simonds is the author of Warsaw Bikini (Bloof Books, 2009) and several chapbooks--Tomorrow’s Bright Bracelets (forthcoming, Kitchen Press), The Pyrotechnics of Madame Trotter (forthcoming, Coconut), Bananas and Spiders (forthcoming, H_NGM_N), A Teeny Tiny Book of War (Teeny Tiny, 2008), The Humble Travelogues of Mr. Ian Worthington (Cy Gist, 2007) and The Tar Pit Diatoms (Otoliths, 2006)--as well as the founder of Wildlife, an experimental, handmade poetry magazine. She earned a BA in English and Psychology from UCLA and an MFA from the University of Montana. She is currently a PhD student in Creative Writing at Florida State University. For more information, visit her blog at ssandrasimonds.blogspot.com.

 Amy Lemmon is the author of two collections of poetry, Fine Motor (Sow's Ear Poetry Review Press, 2008) and Saint Nobody (Red Hen Press, 2008). Her poems and essay have appeared in Rolling Stone, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Verse, Marginalia, and other magazines. Her poem "Karyotype" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the editors of Barrow Street and published as a limited edition broadside (created by artist Amber McMillan) by the Center for Book Arts. She has contributed reviews and articles to New Letters, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry, and the Facts on File Companion to Twentieth-Century British Poetry. In 2006 she was awarded the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Prize by Red Hen Press. Work from ABBA:The Poems, a sequence written in collaboration with Denise Duhamel, appears in The Birmingham Review, Paterson Literary Review, and at lafovea.org. She is poetry editor of the online literary magazine Ducts.org. Amy holds a PhD in English/Creative Writing from the University of Cincinnati and is Assistant Chair of the English and Speech Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

Presents . . .

Sandra Simonds & Amy Lemmon

Monday, October 12 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

Sandra Simonds is the author of Warsaw Bikini (Bloof Books, 2009) and several chapbooks--Tomorrow’s Bright Bracelets (forthcoming, Kitchen Press), The Pyrotechnics of Madame Trotter (forthcoming, Coconut), Bananas and Spiders (forthcoming, H_NGM_N), A Teeny Tiny Book of War (Teeny Tiny, 2008), The Humble Travelogues of Mr. Ian Worthington (Cy Gist, 2007) and The Tar Pit Diatoms (Otoliths, 2006)--as well as the founder of Wildlife, an experimental, handmade poetry magazine. She earned a BA in English and Psychology from UCLA and an MFA from the University of Montana. She is currently a PhD student in Creative Writing at Florida State University. For more information, visit her blog at ssandrasimonds.blogspot.com.

 Amy Lemmon is the author of two collections of poetry, Fine Motor (Sow's Ear Poetry Review Press, 2008) and Saint Nobody (Red Hen Press, 2008). Her poems and essay have appeared in Rolling Stone, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Verse, Marginalia, and other magazines. Her poem "Karyotype" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the editors of Barrow Street and published as a limited edition broadside (created by artist Amber McMillan) by the Center for Book Arts. She has contributed reviews and articles to New Letters, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry, and the Facts on File Companion to Twentieth-Century British Poetry. In 2006 she was awarded the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Prize by Red Hen Press. Work from ABBA:The Poems, a sequence written in collaboration with Denise Duhamel, appears in The Birmingham Review, Paterson Literary Review, and at lafovea.org. She is poetry editor of the online literary magazine Ducts.org. Amy holds a PhD in English/Creative Writing from the University of Cincinnati and is Assistant Chair of the English and Speech Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

Sandra Simonds & Amy Lemmon

Monday, October 12 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

Sandra Simonds is the author of Warsaw Bikini (Bloof Books, 2009) and several chapbooks--Tomorrow’s Bright Bracelets (forthcoming, Kitchen Press), The Pyrotechnics of Madame Trotter (forthcoming, Coconut), Bananas and Spiders (forthcoming, H_NGM_N), A Teeny Tiny Book of War (Teeny Tiny, 2008), The Humble Travelogues of Mr. Ian Worthington (Cy Gist, 2007) and The Tar Pit Diatoms (Otoliths, 2006)--as well as the founder of Wildlife, an experimental, handmade poetry magazine. She earned a BA in English and Psychology from UCLA and an MFA from the University of Montana. She is currently a PhD student in Creative Writing at Florida State University. For more information, visit her blog at ssandrasimonds.blogspot.com.

 Amy Lemmon is the author of two collections of poetry, Fine Motor (Sow's Ear Poetry Review Press, 2008) and Saint Nobody (Red Hen Press, 2008). Her poems and essay have appeared in Rolling Stone, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Verse, Marginalia, and other magazines. Her poem "Karyotype" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the editors of Barrow Street and published as a limited edition broadside (created by artist Amber McMillan) by the Center for Book Arts. She has contributed reviews and articles to New Letters, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry, and the Facts on File Companion to Twentieth-Century British Poetry. In 2006 she was awarded the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Prize by Red Hen Press. Work from ABBA:The Poems, a sequence written in collaboration with Denise Duhamel, appears in The Birmingham Review, Paterson Literary Review, and at lafovea.org. She is poetry editor of the online literary magazine Ducts.org. Amy holds a PhD in English/Creative Writing from the University of Cincinnati and is Assistant Chair of the English and Speech Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

Sandra Simonds & Amy Lemmon

Monday, October 12 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

Sandra Simonds is the author of Warsaw Bikini (Bloof Books, 2009) and several chapbooks--Tomorrow’s Bright Bracelets (forthcoming, Kitchen Press), The Pyrotechnics of Madame Trotter (forthcoming, Coconut), Bananas and Spiders (forthcoming, H_NGM_N), A Teeny Tiny Book of War (Teeny Tiny, 2008), The Humble Travelogues of Mr. Ian Worthington (Cy Gist, 2007) and The Tar Pit Diatoms (Otoliths, 2006)--as well as the founder of Wildlife, an experimental, handmade poetry magazine. She earned a BA in English and Psychology from UCLA and an MFA from the University of Montana. She is currently a PhD student in Creative Writing at Florida State University. For more information, visit her blog at ssandrasimonds.blogspot.com.

 Amy Lemmon is the author of two collections of poetry, Fine Motor (Sow's Ear Poetry Review Press, 2008) and Saint Nobody (Red Hen Press, 2008). Her poems and essay have appeared in Rolling Stone, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Verse, Marginalia, and other magazines. Her poem "Karyotype" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the editors of Barrow Street and published as a limited edition broadside (created by artist Amber McMillan) by the Center for Book Arts. She has contributed reviews and articles to New Letters, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry, and the Facts on File Companion to Twentieth-Century British Poetry. In 2006 she was awarded the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Prize by Red Hen Press. Work from ABBA:The Poems, a sequence written in collaboration with Denise Duhamel, appears in The Birmingham Review, Paterson Literary Review, and at lafovea.org. She is poetry editor of the online literary magazine Ducts.org. Amy holds a PhD in English/Creative Writing from the University of Cincinnati and is Assistant Chair of the English and Speech Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

Sandra Simonds is the author of Warsaw Bikini (Bloof Books, 2009) and several chapbooks--Tomorrow’s Bright Bracelets (forthcoming, Kitchen Press), The Pyrotechnics of Madame Trotter (forthcoming, Coconut), Bananas and Spiders (forthcoming, H_NGM_N), A Teeny Tiny Book of War (Teeny Tiny, 2008), The Humble Travelogues of Mr. Ian Worthington (Cy Gist, 2007) and The Tar Pit Diatoms (Otoliths, 2006)--as well as the founder of Wildlife, an experimental, handmade poetry magazine. She earned a BA in English and Psychology from UCLA and an MFA from the University of Montana. She is currently a PhD student in Creative Writing at Florida State University. For more information, visit her blog at ssandrasimonds.blogspot.com.

 Amy Lemmon is the author of two collections of poetry, Fine Motor (Sow's Ear Poetry Review Press, 2008) and Saint Nobody (Red Hen Press, 2008). Her poems and essay have appeared in Rolling Stone, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Verse, Marginalia, and other magazines. Her poem "Karyotype" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the editors of Barrow Street and published as a limited edition broadside (created by artist Amber McMillan) by the Center for Book Arts. She has contributed reviews and articles to New Letters, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry, and the Facts on File Companion to Twentieth-Century British Poetry. In 2006 she was awarded the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Prize by Red Hen Press. Work from ABBA:The Poems, a sequence written in collaboration with Denise Duhamel, appears in The Birmingham Review, Paterson Literary Review, and at lafovea.org. She is poetry editor of the online literary magazine Ducts.org. Amy holds a PhD in English/Creative Writing from the University of Cincinnati and is Assistant Chair of the English and Speech Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

Monday @ KGB: Amy Lawless & Patricia Carlin

The KGB Monday Night Poetry Reading Series
Hosted by Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez & Michael Quattrone

Presents . . .

Amy Lawless & Patricia Carlin

Monday, October 5 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

Amy Lawless is the author of Noctis Licentia (Black Maze Books, 2008).  Her work has appeared in Sub-Lit, Scapegoat Review, The Paramanu Pentaquark, Canon Magazine, Red China Magazine, Forklift, Ohio, Portable Boog Reader 3, Agriculture Reader, Radioactive Moat, Pax Americana, Sink Review, and Barrow Street.  Lawless holds a degree in journalism from Boston University and an MFA in poetry from The New School. She is a contributing editor of The Dick Pig Review, teaches at John Jay College, and lives in Brooklyn.  For more information, check out her blog at http://amylawless.blogspot.com.

Patricia Carlin’s new poetry collection Quantum Jitters appeared this spring from Marsh Hawk Press.  Previous books include Original Green (poems) and Shakespeare’s Mortal Men (prose). She has published widely in journals and anthologies including Verse, Boulevard, BOMB, American Letters & Commentary, Pleiades, POOL, The Literary Review, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency; and she has received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony and VCCA. She teaches literature and poetry writing at The New School, and she co-edits the poetry journal Barrow Street. 

KGB Bar: 85 East 4th Street (btwn. Bowery & 2nd Ave) NYC 10003

Presents . . .

Amy Lawless & Patricia Carlin

Monday, October 5 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

Amy Lawless is the author of Noctis Licentia (Black Maze Books, 2008).  Her work has appeared in Sub-Lit, Scapegoat Review, The Paramanu Pentaquark, Canon Magazine, Red China Magazine, Forklift, Ohio, Portable Boog Reader 3, Agriculture Reader, Radioactive Moat, Pax Americana, Sink Review, and Barrow Street.  Lawless holds a degree in journalism from Boston University and an MFA in poetry from The New School. She is a contributing editor of The Dick Pig Review, teaches at John Jay College, and lives in Brooklyn.  For more information, check out her blog at http://amylawless.blogspot.com.

Patricia Carlin’s new poetry collection Quantum Jitters appeared this spring from Marsh Hawk Press.  Previous books include Original Green (poems) and Shakespeare’s Mortal Men (prose). She has published widely in journals and anthologies including Verse, Boulevard, BOMB, American Letters & Commentary, Pleiades, POOL, The Literary Review, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency; and she has received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony and VCCA. She teaches literature and poetry writing at The New School, and she co-edits the poetry journal Barrow Street. 

KGB Bar: 85 East 4th Street (btwn. Bowery & 2nd Ave) NYC 10003

Presents . . .

Amy Lawless & Patricia Carlin

Monday, October 5 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

Amy Lawless is the author of Noctis Licentia (Black Maze Books, 2008).  Her work has appeared in Sub-Lit, Scapegoat Review, The Paramanu Pentaquark, Canon Magazine, Red China Magazine, Forklift, Ohio, Portable Boog Reader 3, Agriculture Reader, Radioactive Moat, Pax Americana, Sink Review, and Barrow Street.  Lawless holds a degree in journalism from Boston University and an MFA in poetry from The New School. She is a contributing editor of The Dick Pig Review, teaches at John Jay College, and lives in Brooklyn.  For more information, check out her blog at http://amylawless.blogspot.com.

Patricia Carlin’s new poetry collection Quantum Jitters appeared this spring from Marsh Hawk Press.  Previous books include Original Green (poems) and Shakespeare’s Mortal Men (prose). She has published widely in journals and anthologies including Verse, Boulevard, BOMB, American Letters & Commentary, Pleiades, POOL, The Literary Review, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency; and she has received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony and VCCA. She teaches literature and poetry writing at The New School, and she co-edits the poetry journal Barrow Street. 

KGB Bar: 85 East 4th Street (btwn. Bowery & 2nd Ave) NYC 10003

Amy Lawless & Patricia Carlin

Monday, October 5 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

Amy Lawless is the author of Noctis Licentia (Black Maze Books, 2008).  Her work has appeared in Sub-Lit, Scapegoat Review, The Paramanu Pentaquark, Canon Magazine, Red China Magazine, Forklift, Ohio, Portable Boog Reader 3, Agriculture Reader, Radioactive Moat, Pax Americana, Sink Review, and Barrow Street.  Lawless holds a degree in journalism from Boston University and an MFA in poetry from The New School. She is a contributing editor of The Dick Pig Review, teaches at John Jay College, and lives in Brooklyn.  For more information, check out her blog at http://amylawless.blogspot.com.

Patricia Carlin’s new poetry collection Quantum Jitters appeared this spring from Marsh Hawk Press.  Previous books include Original Green (poems) and Shakespeare’s Mortal Men (prose). She has published widely in journals and anthologies including Verse, Boulevard, BOMB, American Letters & Commentary, Pleiades, POOL, The Literary Review, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency; and she has received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony and VCCA. She teaches literature and poetry writing at The New School, and she co-edits the poetry journal Barrow Street. 

KGB Bar: 85 East 4th Street (btwn. Bowery & 2nd Ave) NYC 10003

Amy Lawless & Patricia Carlin

Monday, October 5 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

Amy Lawless is the author of Noctis Licentia (Black Maze Books, 2008).  Her work has appeared in Sub-Lit, Scapegoat Review, The Paramanu Pentaquark, Canon Magazine, Red China Magazine, Forklift, Ohio, Portable Boog Reader 3, Agriculture Reader, Radioactive Moat, Pax Americana, Sink Review, and Barrow Street.  Lawless holds a degree in journalism from Boston University and an MFA in poetry from The New School. She is a contributing editor of The Dick Pig Review, teaches at John Jay College, and lives in Brooklyn.  For more information, check out her blog at http://amylawless.blogspot.com.

Patricia Carlin’s new poetry collection Quantum Jitters appeared this spring from Marsh Hawk Press.  Previous books include Original Green (poems) and Shakespeare’s Mortal Men (prose). She has published widely in journals and anthologies including Verse, Boulevard, BOMB, American Letters & Commentary, Pleiades, POOL, The Literary Review, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency; and she has received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony and VCCA. She teaches literature and poetry writing at The New School, and she co-edits the poetry journal Barrow Street. 

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

Amy Lawless is the author of Noctis Licentia (Black Maze Books, 2008).  Her work has appeared in Sub-Lit, Scapegoat Review, The Paramanu Pentaquark, Canon Magazine, Red China Magazine, Forklift, Ohio, Portable Boog Reader 3, Agriculture Reader, Radioactive Moat, Pax Americana, Sink Review, and Barrow Street.  Lawless holds a degree in journalism from Boston University and an MFA in poetry from The New School. She is a contributing editor of The Dick Pig Review, teaches at John Jay College, and lives in Brooklyn.  For more information, check out her blog at http://amylawless.blogspot.com.

Patricia Carlin’s new poetry collection Quantum Jitters appeared this spring from Marsh Hawk Press.  Previous books include Original Green (poems) and Shakespeare’s Mortal Men (prose). She has published widely in journals and anthologies including Verse, Boulevard, BOMB, American Letters & Commentary, Pleiades, POOL, The Literary Review, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency; and she has received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony and VCCA. She teaches literature and poetry writing at The New School, and she co-edits the poetry journal Barrow Street. 

Monday @ KGB: Justin Marks & Jeffrey Yang

The KGB Monday Night Poetry Reading Series

Hosted by Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez & Michael Quattrone

Presents . . .

Justin Marks & Jeffrey Yang

Monday, May 18 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

Justin Marks’ first collection of poems is A Million in Prizes (New Issues Press, 2009), and his latest chapbook is Voir Dire (Rope-a-Dope Press, 2009). He is the founder and editor of Kitchen Press Chapbooks and lives in New York City with his wife and their infant son and daughter.

Jeffrey Yang’s book of poems, AN AQUARIUM, was recently published by Graywolf Press. His translation of Su Shi's, EAST SLOPE, is published by Ugly Duckling Presse. He works as an editor at New Directions Publishing.

And don't miss our special season finale: a KGB reading at Bryant Park, in association with the Word for Word reading series . . .

Tuesday, May 19th @ 7:30 PM: Paul Violi, Jennifer Michael Hecht & David Lehman

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

KGB Bar: 85 East 4th Street (btwn. Bowery & 2nd Ave) NYC 10003

Hosted by Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez & Michael Quattrone

Presents . . .

Justin Marks & Jeffrey Yang

Monday, May 18 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

Justin Marks’ first collection of poems is A Million in Prizes (New Issues Press, 2009), and his latest chapbook is Voir Dire (Rope-a-Dope Press, 2009). He is the founder and editor of Kitchen Press Chapbooks and lives in New York City with his wife and their infant son and daughter.

Jeffrey Yang’s book of poems, AN AQUARIUM, was recently published by Graywolf Press. His translation of Su Shi's, EAST SLOPE, is published by Ugly Duckling Presse. He works as an editor at New Directions Publishing.

And don't miss our special season finale: a KGB reading at Bryant Park, in association with the Word for Word reading series . . .

Tuesday, May 19th @ 7:30 PM: Paul Violi, Jennifer Michael Hecht & David Lehman

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

KGB Bar: 85 East 4th Street (btwn. Bowery & 2nd Ave) NYC 10003

Hosted by Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez & Michael Quattrone

Presents . . .

Justin Marks & Jeffrey Yang

Monday, May 18 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

Justin Marks’ first collection of poems is A Million in Prizes (New Issues Press, 2009), and his latest chapbook is Voir Dire (Rope-a-Dope Press, 2009). He is the founder and editor of Kitchen Press Chapbooks and lives in New York City with his wife and their infant son and daughter.

Jeffrey Yang’s book of poems, AN AQUARIUM, was recently published by Graywolf Press. His translation of Su Shi's, EAST SLOPE, is published by Ugly Duckling Presse. He works as an editor at New Directions Publishing.

And don't miss our special season finale: a KGB reading at Bryant Park, in association with the Word for Word reading series . . .

Tuesday, May 19th @ 7:30 PM: Paul Violi, Jennifer Michael Hecht & David Lehman

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

KGB Bar: 85 East 4th Street (btwn. Bowery & 2nd Ave) NYC 10003

Hosted by Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez & Michael Quattrone

Presents . . .

Justin Marks & Jeffrey Yang

Monday, May 18 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

Justin Marks’ first collection of poems is A Million in Prizes (New Issues Press, 2009), and his latest chapbook is Voir Dire (Rope-a-Dope Press, 2009). He is the founder and editor of Kitchen Press Chapbooks and lives in New York City with his wife and their infant son and daughter.

Jeffrey Yang’s book of poems, AN AQUARIUM, was recently published by Graywolf Press. His translation of Su Shi's, EAST SLOPE, is published by Ugly Duckling Presse. He works as an editor at New Directions Publishing.

And don't miss our special season finale: a KGB reading at Bryant Park, in association with the Word for Word reading series . . .

Tuesday, May 19th @ 7:30 PM: Paul Violi, Jennifer Michael Hecht & David Lehman

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

KGB Bar: 85 East 4th Street (btwn. Bowery & 2nd Ave) NYC 10003

Hosted by Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez & Michael Quattrone

Presents . . .

Justin Marks & Jeffrey Yang

Monday, May 18 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

Justin Marks’ first collection of poems is A Million in Prizes (New Issues Press, 2009), and his latest chapbook is Voir Dire (Rope-a-Dope Press, 2009). He is the founder and editor of Kitchen Press Chapbooks and lives in New York City with his wife and their infant son and daughter.

Jeffrey Yang’s book of poems, AN AQUARIUM, was recently published by Graywolf Press. His translation of Su Shi's, EAST SLOPE, is published by Ugly Duckling Presse. He works as an editor at New Directions Publishing.

And don't miss our special season finale: a KGB reading at Bryant Park, in association with the Word for Word reading series . . .

Tuesday, May 19th @ 7:30 PM: Paul Violi, Jennifer Michael Hecht & David Lehman

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

Justin Marks’ first collection of poems is A Million in Prizes (New Issues Press, 2009), and his latest chapbook is Voir Dire (Rope-a-Dope Press, 2009). He is the founder and editor of Kitchen Press Chapbooks and lives in New York City with his wife and their infant son and daughter.

Jeffrey Yang’s book of poems, AN AQUARIUM, was recently published by Graywolf Press. His translation of Su Shi's, EAST SLOPE, is published by Ugly Duckling Presse. He works as an editor at New Directions Publishing.

And don't miss our special season finale: a KGB reading at Bryant Park, in association with the Word for Word reading series . . .

Tuesday, May 19th @ 7:30 PM: Paul Violi, Jennifer Michael Hecht & David Lehman

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

Monday @ KGB: Florence Cassen Mayers & C. K. Williams

The KGB Monday Night Poetry Reading Series

Hosted by Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez & Michael Quattrone

Presents . . .

Florence Cassen Mayers & C. K. Williams

Monday, May 11 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

Florence Cassen Mayers is a painter and graphic designer, and has written and designed a  series of 13 award-winning art books for major museums including the  Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the  Smithsonian, and the Boston Museum of Fine Art, published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. She has published poems in The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, Poetry, Western Humanities Review, Michigan  Quarterly Review, American Letters and Commentary, and in anthologies such as Thirteen Ways of Looking for a Poem, and Inside Literature (Longman  Publishers); Poetry: An Introduction (Bedford/St.Martins); The Bedford Introduction to Literature, and The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature (Bedford Books); Poetry: A Pocket Anthology (Penquin Academic Series). Her sestinas have been posted on the Best American Poetry blog. A native New Yorker, she lived for years in Bangladesh, Nigeria and Central and  South America. Her BFA is from Cornell University and her MFA from Columbia University.

C. K. Williams is the author of numerous books of poetry, including a Collected Poems (FSG, 2007), The Singing (FSG, 2003), which won the National Book Award; Repair (1999), winner of a Pulitzer Prize; The Vigil (1997); A Dream of Mind (1992); Flesh and Blood (1987), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; Tar (1983); With Ignorance (1997); I Am the Bitter Name (1992); and Lies (1969). Williams has also published works of translation, such as Selected Poems of Francis Ponge (1994); Canvas, by Adam Zagajewski (with Renata Gorczynski and Benjamin Ivry, 1991); The Bacchae of Euripides (1990); The Lark. The Thrush. The Starling. (Poems from Issa) (1983); and Women of Trachis, by Sophocles (with Gregory Dickerson, 1978). Among his many awards are an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, and a Pushcart Prize. Williams teaches in the creative writing program at Princeton University and lives part of each year in Paris. [Courtesy of the Academy of American Poets]

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

KGB Bar: 85 East 4th Street (btwn. Bowery & 2nd Ave) NYC 10003

Hosted by Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez & Michael Quattrone

Presents . . .

Florence Cassen Mayers & C. K. Williams

Monday, May 11 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

Florence Cassen Mayers is a painter and graphic designer, and has written and designed a  series of 13 award-winning art books for major museums including the  Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the  Smithsonian, and the Boston Museum of Fine Art, published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. She has published poems in The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, Poetry, Western Humanities Review, Michigan  Quarterly Review, American Letters and Commentary, and in anthologies such as Thirteen Ways of Looking for a Poem, and Inside Literature (Longman  Publishers); Poetry: An Introduction (Bedford/St.Martins); The Bedford Introduction to Literature, and The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature (Bedford Books); Poetry: A Pocket Anthology (Penquin Academic Series). Her sestinas have been posted on the Best American Poetry blog. A native New Yorker, she lived for years in Bangladesh, Nigeria and Central and  South America. Her BFA is from Cornell University and her MFA from Columbia University.

C. K. Williams is the author of numerous books of poetry, including a Collected Poems (FSG, 2007), The Singing (FSG, 2003), which won the National Book Award; Repair (1999), winner of a Pulitzer Prize; The Vigil (1997); A Dream of Mind (1992); Flesh and Blood (1987), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; Tar (1983); With Ignorance (1997); I Am the Bitter Name (1992); and Lies (1969). Williams has also published works of translation, such as Selected Poems of Francis Ponge (1994); Canvas, by Adam Zagajewski (with Renata Gorczynski and Benjamin Ivry, 1991); The Bacchae of Euripides (1990); The Lark. The Thrush. The Starling. (Poems from Issa) (1983); and Women of Trachis, by Sophocles (with Gregory Dickerson, 1978). Among his many awards are an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, and a Pushcart Prize. Williams teaches in the creative writing program at Princeton University and lives part of each year in Paris. [Courtesy of the Academy of American Poets]

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

KGB Bar: 85 East 4th Street (btwn. Bowery & 2nd Ave) NYC 10003

Hosted by Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez & Michael Quattrone

Presents . . .

Florence Cassen Mayers & C. K. Williams

Monday, May 11 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

Florence Cassen Mayers is a painter and graphic designer, and has written and designed a  series of 13 award-winning art books for major museums including the  Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the  Smithsonian, and the Boston Museum of Fine Art, published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. She has published poems in The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, Poetry, Western Humanities Review, Michigan  Quarterly Review, American Letters and Commentary, and in anthologies such as Thirteen Ways of Looking for a Poem, and Inside Literature (Longman  Publishers); Poetry: An Introduction (Bedford/St.Martins); The Bedford Introduction to Literature, and The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature (Bedford Books); Poetry: A Pocket Anthology (Penquin Academic Series). Her sestinas have been posted on the Best American Poetry blog. A native New Yorker, she lived for years in Bangladesh, Nigeria and Central and  South America. Her BFA is from Cornell University and her MFA from Columbia University.

C. K. Williams is the author of numerous books of poetry, including a Collected Poems (FSG, 2007), The Singing (FSG, 2003), which won the National Book Award; Repair (1999), winner of a Pulitzer Prize; The Vigil (1997); A Dream of Mind (1992); Flesh and Blood (1987), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; Tar (1983); With Ignorance (1997); I Am the Bitter Name (1992); and Lies (1969). Williams has also published works of translation, such as Selected Poems of Francis Ponge (1994); Canvas, by Adam Zagajewski (with Renata Gorczynski and Benjamin Ivry, 1991); The Bacchae of Euripides (1990); The Lark. The Thrush. The Starling. (Poems from Issa) (1983); and Women of Trachis, by Sophocles (with Gregory Dickerson, 1978). Among his many awards are an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, and a Pushcart Prize. Williams teaches in the creative writing program at Princeton University and lives part of each year in Paris. [Courtesy of the Academy of American Poets]

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

KGB Bar: 85 East 4th Street (btwn. Bowery & 2nd Ave) NYC 10003

Hosted by Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez & Michael Quattrone

Presents . . .

Florence Cassen Mayers & C. K. Williams

Monday, May 11 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

Florence Cassen Mayers is a painter and graphic designer, and has written and designed a  series of 13 award-winning art books for major museums including the  Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the  Smithsonian, and the Boston Museum of Fine Art, published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. She has published poems in The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, Poetry, Western Humanities Review, Michigan  Quarterly Review, American Letters and Commentary, and in anthologies such as Thirteen Ways of Looking for a Poem, and Inside Literature (Longman  Publishers); Poetry: An Introduction (Bedford/St.Martins); The Bedford Introduction to Literature, and The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature (Bedford Books); Poetry: A Pocket Anthology (Penquin Academic Series). Her sestinas have been posted on the Best American Poetry blog. A native New Yorker, she lived for years in Bangladesh, Nigeria and Central and  South America. Her BFA is from Cornell University and her MFA from Columbia University.

C. K. Williams is the author of numerous books of poetry, including a Collected Poems (FSG, 2007), The Singing (FSG, 2003), which won the National Book Award; Repair (1999), winner of a Pulitzer Prize; The Vigil (1997); A Dream of Mind (1992); Flesh and Blood (1987), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; Tar (1983); With Ignorance (1997); I Am the Bitter Name (1992); and Lies (1969). Williams has also published works of translation, such as Selected Poems of Francis Ponge (1994); Canvas, by Adam Zagajewski (with Renata Gorczynski and Benjamin Ivry, 1991); The Bacchae of Euripides (1990); The Lark. The Thrush. The Starling. (Poems from Issa) (1983); and Women of Trachis, by Sophocles (with Gregory Dickerson, 1978). Among his many awards are an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, and a Pushcart Prize. Williams teaches in the creative writing program at Princeton University and lives part of each year in Paris. [Courtesy of the Academy of American Poets]

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

Florence Cassen Mayers is a painter and graphic designer, and has written and designed a  series of 13 award-winning art books for major museums including the  Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the  Smithsonian, and the Boston Museum of Fine Art, published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. She has published poems in The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, Poetry, Western Humanities Review, Michigan  Quarterly Review, American Letters and Commentary, and in anthologies such as Thirteen Ways of Looking for a Poem, and Inside Literature (Longman  Publishers); Poetry: An Introduction (Bedford/St.Martins); The Bedford Introduction to Literature, and The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature (Bedford Books); Poetry: A Pocket Anthology (Penquin Academic Series). Her sestinas have been posted on the Best American Poetry blog. A native New Yorker, she lived for years in Bangladesh, Nigeria and Central and  South America. Her BFA is from Cornell University and her MFA from Columbia University.

C. K. Williams is the author of numerous books of poetry, including a Collected Poems (FSG, 2007), The Singing (FSG, 2003), which won the National Book Award; Repair (1999), winner of a Pulitzer Prize; The Vigil (1997); A Dream of Mind (1992); Flesh and Blood (1987), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; Tar (1983); With Ignorance (1997); I Am the Bitter Name (1992); and Lies (1969). Williams has also published works of translation, such as Selected Poems of Francis Ponge (1994); Canvas, by Adam Zagajewski (with Renata Gorczynski and Benjamin Ivry, 1991); The Bacchae of Euripides (1990); The Lark. The Thrush. The Starling. (Poems from Issa) (1983); and Women of Trachis, by Sophocles (with Gregory Dickerson, 1978). Among his many awards are an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, and a Pushcart Prize. Williams teaches in the creative writing program at Princeton University and lives part of each year in Paris. [Courtesy of the Academy of American Poets]

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

Monday @ KGB: Bill Zavatsky & Ron Padgett

The KGB Monday Night Poetry Reading Series

Hosted by Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez & Michael Quattrone

Presents . . .

Bill Zavatsky & Ron Padgett

Monday, May 4 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

Bill Zavatsky has published translations of Robert Desnos in The Sienese Shredder, in the Random House Book of Twentieth-century French Poetry, and in Essential Poems and Writings of Robert Desnos. His translation of Valery Larbaud’s The Poems of A. O. Barnabooth (with Ron Padgett) was reissued in a revised edition this year. His translation of Earthlight: Poems by André Breton (with Zack Rogow) won the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize. His own poetry appears in the anthologies The Face of Poetry, Up Late, and Present Tense. Where X Marks the Spot, his latest collection of poetry, came out in 2006 from Hanging Loose Press. He has written poems as liner notes for jazz pianists Bill Evans and Marc Copland, most recently Copland’s Voices, with Gary Peacock and Paul Motian, and Night Whispers, with Drew Gress and Bill Stewart. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry for 2008-2009. Bill teaches English at the Trinity School in Manhattan.

Ron Padgett’s recent books include How to Be Perfect (poems), You Never Know (poems), If I Were You (collaborative works), and two memoirs, Oklahoma Tough: My Father, King of the Tulsa Bootleggers and Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard. Padgett is also the editor of The Handbook of Poetic Forms as well as the translator of Blaise Cendrars' Complete Poems and Guillaime Apollinaire's Poet Assassinated. He has collaborated with artists such as Jim Dine, Alex Katz, George Schneeman, and Joe Brainard. Padgett has received Fulbright, NEA, Guggenheim, and Civitella Ranieri grants and fellowships, and was named Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. Recently he was elected Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. His translation (with Bill Zavatsky) of Valery Larbaud's Poems of A. O. Barnabooth was published in 2007 by Black Window Books. For more information, go to http://www.ronpadgett.com.

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

KGB Bar: 85 East 4th Street (btwn. Bowery & 2nd Ave) NYC 10003

Hosted by Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez & Michael Quattrone

Presents . . .

Bill Zavatsky & Ron Padgett

Monday, May 4 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

Bill Zavatsky has published translations of Robert Desnos in The Sienese Shredder, in the Random House Book of Twentieth-century French Poetry, and in Essential Poems and Writings of Robert Desnos. His translation of Valery Larbaud’s The Poems of A. O. Barnabooth (with Ron Padgett) was reissued in a revised edition this year. His translation of Earthlight: Poems by André Breton (with Zack Rogow) won the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize. His own poetry appears in the anthologies The Face of Poetry, Up Late, and Present Tense. Where X Marks the Spot, his latest collection of poetry, came out in 2006 from Hanging Loose Press. He has written poems as liner notes for jazz pianists Bill Evans and Marc Copland, most recently Copland’s Voices, with Gary Peacock and Paul Motian, and Night Whispers, with Drew Gress and Bill Stewart. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry for 2008-2009. Bill teaches English at the Trinity School in Manhattan.

Ron Padgett’s recent books include How to Be Perfect (poems), You Never Know (poems), If I Were You (collaborative works), and two memoirs, Oklahoma Tough: My Father, King of the Tulsa Bootleggers and Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard. Padgett is also the editor of The Handbook of Poetic Forms as well as the translator of Blaise Cendrars' Complete Poems and Guillaime Apollinaire's Poet Assassinated. He has collaborated with artists such as Jim Dine, Alex Katz, George Schneeman, and Joe Brainard. Padgett has received Fulbright, NEA, Guggenheim, and Civitella Ranieri grants and fellowships, and was named Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. Recently he was elected Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. His translation (with Bill Zavatsky) of Valery Larbaud's Poems of A. O. Barnabooth was published in 2007 by Black Window Books. For more information, go to http://www.ronpadgett.com.

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

KGB Bar: 85 East 4th Street (btwn. Bowery & 2nd Ave) NYC 10003

Hosted by Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez & Michael Quattrone

Presents . . .

Bill Zavatsky & Ron Padgett

Monday, May 4 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

Bill Zavatsky has published translations of Robert Desnos in The Sienese Shredder, in the Random House Book of Twentieth-century French Poetry, and in Essential Poems and Writings of Robert Desnos. His translation of Valery Larbaud’s The Poems of A. O. Barnabooth (with Ron Padgett) was reissued in a revised edition this year. His translation of Earthlight: Poems by André Breton (with Zack Rogow) won the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize. His own poetry appears in the anthologies The Face of Poetry, Up Late, and Present Tense. Where X Marks the Spot, his latest collection of poetry, came out in 2006 from Hanging Loose Press. He has written poems as liner notes for jazz pianists Bill Evans and Marc Copland, most recently Copland’s Voices, with Gary Peacock and Paul Motian, and Night Whispers, with Drew Gress and Bill Stewart. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry for 2008-2009. Bill teaches English at the Trinity School in Manhattan.

Ron Padgett’s recent books include How to Be Perfect (poems), You Never Know (poems), If I Were You (collaborative works), and two memoirs, Oklahoma Tough: My Father, King of the Tulsa Bootleggers and Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard. Padgett is also the editor of The Handbook of Poetic Forms as well as the translator of Blaise Cendrars' Complete Poems and Guillaime Apollinaire's Poet Assassinated. He has collaborated with artists such as Jim Dine, Alex Katz, George Schneeman, and Joe Brainard. Padgett has received Fulbright, NEA, Guggenheim, and Civitella Ranieri grants and fellowships, and was named Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. Recently he was elected Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. His translation (with Bill Zavatsky) of Valery Larbaud's Poems of A. O. Barnabooth was published in 2007 by Black Window Books. For more information, go to http://www.ronpadgett.com.

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

KGB Bar: 85 East 4th Street (btwn. Bowery & 2nd Ave) NYC 10003

Hosted by Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez & Michael Quattrone

Presents . . .

Bill Zavatsky & Ron Padgett

Monday, May 4 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

Bill Zavatsky has published translations of Robert Desnos in The Sienese Shredder, in the Random House Book of Twentieth-century French Poetry, and in Essential Poems and Writings of Robert Desnos. His translation of Valery Larbaud’s The Poems of A. O. Barnabooth (with Ron Padgett) was reissued in a revised edition this year. His translation of Earthlight: Poems by André Breton (with Zack Rogow) won the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize. His own poetry appears in the anthologies The Face of Poetry, Up Late, and Present Tense. Where X Marks the Spot, his latest collection of poetry, came out in 2006 from Hanging Loose Press. He has written poems as liner notes for jazz pianists Bill Evans and Marc Copland, most recently Copland’s Voices, with Gary Peacock and Paul Motian, and Night Whispers, with Drew Gress and Bill Stewart. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry for 2008-2009. Bill teaches English at the Trinity School in Manhattan.

Ron Padgett’s recent books include How to Be Perfect (poems), You Never Know (poems), If I Were You (collaborative works), and two memoirs, Oklahoma Tough: My Father, King of the Tulsa Bootleggers and Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard. Padgett is also the editor of The Handbook of Poetic Forms as well as the translator of Blaise Cendrars' Complete Poems and Guillaime Apollinaire's Poet Assassinated. He has collaborated with artists such as Jim Dine, Alex Katz, George Schneeman, and Joe Brainard. Padgett has received Fulbright, NEA, Guggenheim, and Civitella Ranieri grants and fellowships, and was named Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. Recently he was elected Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. His translation (with Bill Zavatsky) of Valery Larbaud's Poems of A. O. Barnabooth was published in 2007 by Black Window Books. For more information, go to http://www.ronpadgett.com.

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

Bill Zavatsky has published translations of Robert Desnos in The Sienese Shredder, in the Random House Book of Twentieth-century French Poetry, and in Essential Poems and Writings of Robert Desnos. His translation of Valery Larbaud’s The Poems of A. O. Barnabooth (with Ron Padgett) was reissued in a revised edition this year. His translation of Earthlight: Poems by André Breton (with Zack Rogow) won the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize. His own poetry appears in the anthologies The Face of Poetry, Up Late, and Present Tense. Where X Marks the Spot, his latest collection of poetry, came out in 2006 from Hanging Loose Press. He has written poems as liner notes for jazz pianists Bill Evans and Marc Copland, most recently Copland’s Voices, with Gary Peacock and Paul Motian, and Night Whispers, with Drew Gress and Bill Stewart. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry for 2008-2009. Bill teaches English at the Trinity School in Manhattan.

Ron Padgett’s recent books include How to Be Perfect (poems), You Never Know (poems), If I Were You (collaborative works), and two memoirs, Oklahoma Tough: My Father, King of the Tulsa Bootleggers and Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard. Padgett is also the editor of The Handbook of Poetic Forms as well as the translator of Blaise Cendrars' Complete Poems and Guillaime Apollinaire's Poet Assassinated. He has collaborated with artists such as Jim Dine, Alex Katz, George Schneeman, and Joe Brainard. Padgett has received Fulbright, NEA, Guggenheim, and Civitella Ranieri grants and fellowships, and was named Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. Recently he was elected Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. His translation (with Bill Zavatsky) of Valery Larbaud's Poems of A. O. Barnabooth was published in 2007 by Black Window Books. For more information, go to http://www.ronpadgett.com.

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

Monday @ KGB: George Green & Billy Collins

The KGB Monday Night Poetry Reading Series

Hosted by Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez & Michael Quattrone

Presents . . .

George Green & Billy Collins

Monday, April 27 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

George Green is a native of western Pennsylvania, who has lived for thirty years in a rent-stabilized apartment in the East Village.  His work has appeared in various journals and in the anthologies Poetry 180; 180 More Poems; The Best American Poetry 2005; and The Best American Poetry 2006. He has poems in the forthcoming Swallow Anthology of New American Poets, and in Bright Wings, a Columbia anthology of bird poems illustrated by David Sibley.   

Billy Collins is the author of eight books of poetry including Ballistics, The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems, Nine Horses, Picnic, Lightning, and Sailing Alone Around the Room.  A Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College (CUNY), he served as United States Poet Laureate 2001-2003 and New York State Poet Laureate 2004-2006.

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

KGB Bar: 85 East 4th Street (btwn. Bowery & 2nd Ave) NYC 10003

The KGB Monday Night Poetry Reading Series

Hosted by Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez & Michael Quattrone

Presents . . .

George Green & Billy Collins

Monday, April 27 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

George Green is a native of western Pennsylvania, who has lived for thirty years in a rent-stabilized apartment in the East Village.  His work has appeared in various journals and in the anthologies Poetry 180; 180 More Poems; The Best American Poetry 2005; and The Best American Poetry 2006. He has poems in the forthcoming Swallow Anthology of New American Poets, and in Bright Wings, a Columbia anthology of bird poems illustrated by David Sibley.   

Billy Collins is the author of eight books of poetry including Ballistics, The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems, Nine Horses, Picnic, Lightning, and Sailing Alone Around the Room.  A Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College (CUNY), he served as United States Poet Laureate 2001-2003 and New York State Poet Laureate 2004-2006.

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

KGB Bar: 85 East 4th Street (btwn. Bowery & 2nd Ave) NYC 10003

Hosted by Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez & Michael Quattrone

Presents . . .

George Green & Billy Collins

Monday, April 27 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

George Green is a native of western Pennsylvania, who has lived for thirty years in a rent-stabilized apartment in the East Village.  His work has appeared in various journals and in the anthologies Poetry 180; 180 More Poems; The Best American Poetry 2005; and The Best American Poetry 2006. He has poems in the forthcoming Swallow Anthology of New American Poets, and in Bright Wings, a Columbia anthology of bird poems illustrated by David Sibley.   

Billy Collins is the author of eight books of poetry including Ballistics, The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems, Nine Horses, Picnic, Lightning, and Sailing Alone Around the Room.  A Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College (CUNY), he served as United States Poet Laureate 2001-2003 and New York State Poet Laureate 2004-2006.

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

George Green is a native of western Pennsylvania, who has lived for thirty years in a rent-stabilized apartment in the East Village.  His work has appeared in various journals and in the anthologies Poetry 180; 180 More Poems; The Best American Poetry 2005; and The Best American Poetry 2006. He has poems in the forthcoming Swallow Anthology of New American Poets, and in Bright Wings, a Columbia anthology of bird poems illustrated by David Sibley.   

Billy Collins is the author of eight books of poetry including Ballistics, The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems, Nine Horses, Picnic, Lightning, and Sailing Alone Around the Room.  A Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College (CUNY), he served as United States Poet Laureate 2001-2003 and New York State Poet Laureate 2004-2006.

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

Monday @ KGB: Laura Sims & Matthew Rohrer

The KGB Monday Night Poetry Reading Series

Hosted by Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez & Michael Quattrone

Presents . . .

Laura Sims & Matthew Rohrer

Monday, April 20 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

Laura Sims is the author of two books of poems: Practice, Restraint, winner of the 2005 Fence Books Alberta Prize, and Stranger, forthcoming from Fence Books in March of 2009. Her book reviews and essays have appeared in Boston Review, New England Review, Rain Taxi, and The Review of Contemporary Fiction, and she has recently published poems in the journals Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, CAB/NET, and Crayon. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches writing at Baruch College in Manhattan.

Matthew Rohrer is the author of A Hummock in the Malookas (which won the 1994 National Poetry Series Open Competition), Satellite, A Green Light (shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin International Poetry Prize), and Rise Up. With Joshua Beckman he wrote Nice Hat. Thanks and recorded the audio CD Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He's appeared on NPR's All Things Considered and The Next Big Thing, has been awarded the Avery Hopwood Prize for poetry and a Pushcart Prize, and has been widely anthologized. A chapbook-length action/adventure poem They All Seemed Asleep was recently published by Octopus Books. He teaches in the creative writing program at NYU and lives in Brooklyn.

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

KGB Bar: 85 East 4th Street (btwn. Bowery & 2nd Ave) NYC 10003

Hosted by Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez & Michael Quattrone

Presents . . .

Laura Sims & Matthew Rohrer

Monday, April 20 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

Laura Sims is the author of two books of poems: Practice, Restraint, winner of the 2005 Fence Books Alberta Prize, and Stranger, forthcoming from Fence Books in March of 2009. Her book reviews and essays have appeared in Boston Review, New England Review, Rain Taxi, and The Review of Contemporary Fiction, and she has recently published poems in the journals Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, CAB/NET, and Crayon. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches writing at Baruch College in Manhattan.

Matthew Rohrer is the author of A Hummock in the Malookas (which won the 1994 National Poetry Series Open Competition), Satellite, A Green Light (shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin International Poetry Prize), and Rise Up. With Joshua Beckman he wrote Nice Hat. Thanks and recorded the audio CD Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He's appeared on NPR's All Things Considered and The Next Big Thing, has been awarded the Avery Hopwood Prize for poetry and a Pushcart Prize, and has been widely anthologized. A chapbook-length action/adventure poem They All Seemed Asleep was recently published by Octopus Books. He teaches in the creative writing program at NYU and lives in Brooklyn.

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

Laura Sims is the author of two books of poems: Practice, Restraint, winner of the 2005 Fence Books Alberta Prize, and Stranger, forthcoming from Fence Books in March of 2009. Her book reviews and essays have appeared in Boston Review, New England Review, Rain Taxi, and The Review of Contemporary Fiction, and she has recently published poems in the journals Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, CAB/NET, and Crayon. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches writing at Baruch College in Manhattan.

Matthew Rohrer is the author of A Hummock in the Malookas (which won the 1994 National Poetry Series Open Competition), Satellite, A Green Light (shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin International Poetry Prize), and Rise Up. With Joshua Beckman he wrote Nice Hat. Thanks and recorded the audio CD Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He's appeared on NPR's All Things Considered and The Next Big Thing, has been awarded the Avery Hopwood Prize for poetry and a Pushcart Prize, and has been widely anthologized. A chapbook-length action/adventure poem They All Seemed Asleep was recently published by Octopus Books. He teaches in the creative writing program at NYU and lives in Brooklyn.

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