KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present...
Cathy Park Hong + Craig Morgan Teicher
Monday Oct. 1, 2012
Hosted by Matthew Yeager and John Deming
Reading starts at 7:30pm
Admission is FREE
85 East 4th Street * New York, NY
Cathy Park Hong's first book, Translating Mo'um, was published in 2002 by Hanging Loose Press. Her second collection, Dance Dance Revolution, was chosen for the Barnard Women Poets Prize and was published in 2007 by WW Norton. Her third book of poems, Engine Empire,
was published in May 2012 by WW Norton. Hong is the recipient of a
Fulbright Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and a Village Voice
Fellowship for Minority Reporters. Her poems have been published in A
Public Space, Poetry, Paris Review, Conjunctions, McSweeney's, Harvard
Review, Boston Review, The Nation, American Letters & Commentary,
Denver Quarterly, and other journals. She is an Assistant Professor at
Sarah Lawrence College and is regular faculty at the Queens MFA program
in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Craig Morgan Teicher is a poet, critic, and freelance writer. His latest book, To Keep Love Blurry: Poems, is new from BOA. His first book of poems, Brenda Is In The Room And Other Poems, was chosen by Paul Hoover as winner of the 2007 Colorado Prize for Poetry. His collection of short stories and fables, Cradle Book, was published in spring 2010 by BOA. His
poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, The Paris Review,
The Yale Review, A Public Space, Jubilat, Seneca Review, Forklift Ohio,
Octopus, La Petit Zine, Fairy Tale Review, Verse, and Colorado Review,
as well as The Best American Poetry 2009. His
reviews of poetry and fiction, and profiles of poets, appear widely in
places like NPR.org, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Poets & Writers,
Poets.org, Time Out New York, Boston Review and Bookforum. He
is Director of Digital Operations and Poetry Reviews Editor of
Publishers Weekly, a poetry editor of The Literary Review, a
contributing editor of Pleiades, and a Vice President of the National
Book Critics Circle. He also teaches at The New School and New York University and lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife and children
