KGB Monday Night
Poetry is pleased to present...
Wayne Miller
+ Jerry Williams
Nov. 5, 2012
Hosted by Matthew Yeager and John Deming
Reading starts at 7:30pm
Admission is FREE
85 East 4th Street * New York, NY
Wayne Miller is the
author of three poetry collections:
The City, Our City
(Milkweed Editions, 2011),
The Book of Props (2009),
and
Only the Senses Sleep (New Issues, 2006). He also
translated Moikom Zeqo’s
I Don’t Believe in Ghosts
(BOA Editions, 2007). The recipient of the George Bogin Award,
the Lucille Medwick Award (in 2004, 2005, 2007, and 2009), and
the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America, as
well as a Ruth Lilly Fellowship and the Bess Hokin Prize from
the Poetry Foundation, Miller lives in Kansas City and teaches
at the University of Central Missouri, where he edits Pleiades:
A Journal of New Writing (& Reviews). In the spring of 2013
he will be the Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in Creative
Writing at Queen's University, Belfast.
Jerry
Williams teaches creative writing at
Marymount Manhattan College. He is also the author of the
collections of poems Casino of the Sun (Carnegie Mellon
University Press, 2003) and Admission (Carnegie Mellon
University Press, 2010). His poetry and nonfiction have
appeared in American Poetry Review, Tin House, Pleiades, and
many other journals. He lives in New York City. Jerry
Williams' teaching interests include poetry, creative
nonfiction, and contemporary literature. The Overlook Press
published his anthology of breakup and divorce poetry, It's
Not You, It's Me, in 2010. Recently, he has been working on a
memoir called The Wrong House..
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