KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present...
David Lehman + James Kimbrell
Monday, March 4th, 2013
Hosted by John Deming and Matthew Yeager
Doors open at 7:00 pm
Reading starts at 7:30pm
Admission is FREE
85 East 4th Street * New York, NY
David Lehman is the author of many 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 and Ithaca, NY.
James Kimbrell is the author of
The Gatehouse Heaven (1998), which was chosen by poet Charles Wright for the Kathryn A. Morton Prize from Sarabande Books, and
My Psychic (2006). He and artist Yu Jung-yul co-translated the collection
Three Poets of Modern Korea: Yi Sang, Hahm Dong-Seon, and Choi Young-Mi (2002). His poems, reviews and translations have appeared in magazines and anthologies such as Poetry, Field, Fence, The Nation, Prairie Schooner, The Boston Book Review, American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon University Press) and The Bread Loaf Anthology of New American Poets (University Press of New England). Kimbrell's plaudits include a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Fellowship, a Ruth Lilly Prize, and a Whiting Writers’ Award. Born in Jackson, Mississippi, he is currently director of the Graduate Writing program at Florida State University.
