KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present...
Mark Doty + David Lehman
Monday, December 3
Hosted by Matthew Yeager and John Deming
Reading starts at 7:30pm
Admission is FREE
85 East 4th Street * New York, NY
Mark Doty is the author of Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems (HarperCollins, 2008), which received the National Book Award; other volumes of poetry include School of the Arts (2005); Source (2002); Sweet Machine (1998), and most recently Paragon Park (2012). He has also published the memoirs Heaven's Coast (1996), which received the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction, Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy (2000), and Dog Years (HarperCollins, 2007). Doty has received fellowships from the Guggenheim, Ingram Merrill, Rockefeller, and Whiting foundations, and from the National Endowment for the Arts. He was elected an Academy Chancellor in 2011. He has taught at the University of Houston and is currently serving as a Distinguished Writer at Rutgers University. He currently lives in New York City.
David Lehman is the author of several collections of poems, including Yeshiva Boys (Scriber, 2011), When a Woman Loves a Man (Scribner, 2005), Jim and Dave Defeat the Masked Man (with James Cummins, Soft Skull Press, 2005), and The Evening Sun (2002). Among his books of non-fiction are A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs (Shocken Books, 2009) and The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets (Doubleday, 1998), which was named a "Book to Remember 1999" by the New York Public Library. He edited The Oxford Book of American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2006), and is the series editor of The Best American Poetry. He is on the core faculty of the graduate writing programs at the New School and New York University. He lives in New York City.
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December 10 Mark Strand + Malachi Black + Season Finale Party!!!!
