Catherine Barnett is the recipient of a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2004 Whiting Award, the 2004 Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, and a Pushcart Prize. Her book, Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced, won the 2003 Beatrice Hawley Award and was published in spring 2004 by Alice James Books. Her poems have been published in Gulf Coast, Pleiades, The Washington Post, Barrow Street, Shenandoah, The Massachusetts Review, and The Iowa Review. Barnett also teaches at NYU, where she was recently honored with an Outstanding Service Award.
David Lehman is one of the founders of the Monday Night Poetry Series at KGB Bar. He is the author of seven books of poems, most recently When a Woman Loves a Man, and seven books of prose, most recently A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs. He is the series editor of the Best American Poetry Series and teaches poetry at The New School.
The Monday night Poetry reading series at KGB is hosted by Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez & Michael Quattrone, and was founded by David Lehman and Star Black.
Readings begin at 7:30 pm. Admission is FREE
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