Monday @ KGB: Melissa Broder & John Hoppenthaler

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

Melissa Broder & John Hoppenthaler
Monday, March 1 @ 7:30 PM
Admission is FREE

Melissa Broder is author of WHEN YOU SAY ONE THING BUT MEAN YOUR MOTHER (February 2010, Ampersand Books). She is the curator of the Polestar Poetry Series and the Chief Editor of La Petite Zine. Broder is the winner of the Jerome Lowell Dejur Award (2009) and the Stark Prize for Poetry (2008 and 2009). She received her BA from Tufts University and is currently in the MFA program at CCNY. By day, she works as a literary publicist. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including: Opium, Shampoo, Conte and The Del Sol Review. She lives in Brooklyn.

  

John Hoppenthaler was born in Brooklyn and raised in Rockland County.  His books of poetry are Lives Of Water (2003) and Anticipate the Coming Reservoir (2008), both titles from Carnegie Mellon University Press.  With Kazim Ali, he has co-edited a volume of essays and interviews on the poetry of Jean Valentine. Among his honors are an Arts Fellowship Award for Excellence in the Field of Literature from the West Virginia Division of Culture and History and the West Virginia Commission on the Arts, and residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities. For eleven years, he served as Poetry Editor for Kestrel, and he now serves as Advisory Editor for the cultural journal, Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, for which also he edits “A Poetry Congeries” and curates the Guest Poetry Editor Feature.  Former Personal Assistant to Toni Morrison for nine years, he is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at East Carolina University. 

KGB Bar
85 E. 4th St.
(Between Bowery & 2nd Ave.)
New York, NY 10003
For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

Melissa Broder & John Hoppenthaler
Monday, March 1 @ 7:30 PM
Admission is FREE

Melissa Broder is author of WHEN YOU SAY ONE THING BUT MEAN YOUR MOTHER (February 2010, Ampersand Books). She is the curator of the Polestar Poetry Series and the Chief Editor of La Petite Zine. Broder is the winner of the Jerome Lowell Dejur Award (2009) and the Stark Prize for Poetry (2008 and 2009). She received her BA from Tufts University and is currently in the MFA program at CCNY. By day, she works as a literary publicist. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including: Opium, Shampoo, Conte and The Del Sol Review. She lives in Brooklyn.

  

John Hoppenthaler was born in Brooklyn and raised in Rockland County.  His books of poetry are Lives Of Water (2003) and Anticipate the Coming Reservoir (2008), both titles from Carnegie Mellon University Press.  With Kazim Ali, he has co-edited a volume of essays and interviews on the poetry of Jean Valentine. Among his honors are an Arts Fellowship Award for Excellence in the Field of Literature from the West Virginia Division of Culture and History and the West Virginia Commission on the Arts, and residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities. For eleven years, he served as Poetry Editor for Kestrel, and he now serves as Advisory Editor for the cultural journal, Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, for which also he edits “A Poetry Congeries” and curates the Guest Poetry Editor Feature.  Former Personal Assistant to Toni Morrison for nine years, he is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at East Carolina University. 

KGB Bar
85 E. 4th St.
(Between Bowery & 2nd Ave.)
New York, NY 10003
For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.