KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present...
Mark Strand & Malachi Black
Monday, December 10
Hosted by Matthew Yeager and John Deming
Reading starts at 7:30pm
Admission is FREE
85 East 4th Street * New York, NY
Mark Strand is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including Almost Invisible (Knopf, 2012), Man and Camel (Knopf, 2006), Blizzard of One (1998), which won the Pulitzer Prize, and Reasons for Moving (1968). Strand's honors include the Bollingen Prize, three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, the 1974 Edgar Allen Poe Prize from The Academy of American Poets, and a Rockefeller Foundation award, as well as fellowships from The Academy of ...American Poets, the MacArthur Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation. He has served as Poet Laureate of the United States and is a former Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. He teaches English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York.
Malachi Black is the author of Storm Toward Morning (forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press), and two limited edition chapbooks: Quarantine (Argos Books, 2012) and Echolocation (Float Press, 2010). A recipient of a 2009 Ruth Lilly Fellowship, Black has also received recent fellowships and awards from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the MacDowell Colony, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the University of Texas at Austin’s Michener Center for Writers, and the University of Utah. He was the subject of an Emerging Poet profile by Mark Jarman in the Fall 2011 issue of the Academy of American Poets’ American Poet magazine.
