The Best American Poetry

Tonight at KGB: Sarah Arvio + David Kinloch

 

KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present...

 

Sarah Arvio + David Kinloch 

 

Monday, May 13, 2013

Hosted by John Deming and Matthew Yeager

Series founded in 1997 by Star Black and David Lehman

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Reading starts at 7:30pm

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85 East 4th Street * New York, NY 

 

Sarah Arvio, a poet and translator, has lived in New York, Rome, Paris, Caracas and Mexico City; for many years, she has translated for the United Nations in New York and Switzerland.  Her books of poetry, all out from Knopf, are Visits from the Seventh (2002) Sono: cantos (2006), and the recently published night thoughts: 70 dream poems & notes from an analysis, a hybrid work that is also a memoir and an essay on dreaming and psychoanalysis. She is now working on translations of poets from Spanish, French and Italian.  Several of those translations appeared in the FSG Book of 20th Century Italian Poetry (2012).   She lives in Maryland by the Chesapeake Bay. 

David Kinloch was born in Glasgow in 1959 and educated at Glasgow and Oxford Universities. For many years a teacher of French language and literature, he now teaches creative writing and Scottish literature in the English Studies Department of the University of Strathclyde. His publications include five books of poetry, Dustie-Fute (Vennel Press, 1992), Paris-Forfar (Polygon, 1994), Un Tour d'Ecosse (Carcanet, 2001) and In My Father's House (Carcanet, 2005), and Finger of a Frenchman (Carcanet, 2011).  A recipient of the 2004 Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Award, he has held a Scottish Arts Council Writer's Bursary.

Upcoming, Spring 2013

      

May 20  Eileen Myles + Rebecca Wolff + Series Founder Star Black + Season Finale Party!

Tonight at KGB: Glyn Maxwell + Louis Jenkins

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Glyn Maxwell + Louis Jenkins 

 

Monday, May 6, 2013

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85 East 4th Street * New York, NY 

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Series founded in 1997 by David Lehman and Star Black

Glyn Maxwell is a British poet, playwright, and librettist.  Recent collections of poetry include The Nerve (2002), winner of the Geoffrey Haber Memorial Prize, The Sugar Mile (2005) and Hide Now (2008), which was shortlisted for both the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2008 and the Forward Prize in 2009.  His three earliest collections of poetry are collected as The Boys at Twilight: Poems 1990-1995 (2000).  Maxwell was born and raised in Welwyn Garden City, in Hertfordshire.  Over fifteen of his plays have been produced in both America and the UK, and he's taught extensively on both sides of the pond.  He lives in London and lectures currently at the University of Essex.

Louis Jenkins is the author of Before You Know It: Prose Poems 1970-2005.  Other books include An Almost Human Gesture (Eighties Press and Ally Press, 1987), All Tangled Up With the Living (Nineties Press, 1991), Nice Fish: New and Selected Prose Poems (Holy Cow! Press, 1995), winner of the Minnesota Book Award, Just Above Water (Holy Cow! Press, 1997) and The Winter Road (Holy Cow! Press, 2000).  One of the American masters of the prose poem, his work has been included in Great American Prose Poems, The Best American Poetry 1999, and a variety of journals and magazines.   He lives in Duluth, Minnesota.

Upcoming, Spring 2013

      

May 13  Sarah Arvio + David Kinloch 

May 20  Eileen Myles + Rebecca Wolff + Season Finale Party  

Tonight at KGB: Will Schutt + Michael Klein

KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present...

 

Will Schutt + Michael Klein

 

Monday, April 29, 2013

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85 East 4th Street * New York, NY 

 

Hosted by John Deming and Matthew Yeager

Series founded in 1997 by Star Black and David Lehman

 

Will Schutt's first manuscript, Westerly, was chosen by Carl Phillips for the 2012 Yale Younger Prize.  The book is forthcoming in April, 2013 from Yale University Press.  Schutt's poems and translations have appeared in Agni, FIELD, Harvard Review, The Southern Review, and elsewhere.  A graduate of Oberlin College and Hollins University, he lives with his wife in Wainscott, New York.

 

Michael Klein's books of poetry include then, we were still living, Track Conditions, The End of Being Known, and 1990, which tied with James Schuyler for the 1993 Lambda Literary Award.  He has also edited Poets for Life: 76 Poets Respond to AIDS, winner of the Lambda Book Award), Things Shaped in Passing, and In the Company of My Solitude. His new book of poems, The Talking Day, is forthcoming from Sibling Rivalry Press in 2013. He teaches in the MFA Program at Goddard College in Port Townsend, Washington and is on the faculty of the summer program at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown 

Tonight at KGB: Sharon Olds + Michael Dickman

KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present...

 

Sharon Olds + Michael Dickman

 

Monday, April 22, 2013

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85 East 4th Street * New York, NY 

Hosted by John Deming and Matthew Yeager

Series founded in 1997 by Star Black and David Lehman

Sharon Olds is the author of ten volumes of poetry, including Strike Sparks: Selected Poems 1980-2002 (Knopf) The Father (Knopf), and The Dead and the Living (Knopf), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.  Her most recent volume, Stag's Leap (Knopf), was awarded the 2012 T.S. Eliot Prize and just last week, the 2013 Pulitzer Prize.   In 2005, First Lady Laura Bush invited Olds to the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.  Olds declined.  Her open letter, published in the October 10th, 2005 issue of The Nation, closed as follows: "So many Americans who had felt pride in our country now feel anguish and shame, for the current regime of blood, wounds and fire. I thought of the clean linens at your table, the shining knives and the flames of the candles, and I could not stomach it."

Michael Dickman is the author of The End of the West (Copper Canyon, 2009) and Flies (2011), which won the James Laughlin Award for the most outstanding second book by an American poet.  Together with his brother, the poet Matthew Dickman, he is the co-author of 50 American Plays.  Dickman has received fellowships from the Michener Center, the Fine Arts Work Center, the Vermont Studio Center, and Princeton University.  His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Field, Tin House, Narrative Magazine and others. He has been profiled in Poets & Writers and, alongside his brother, in The New Yorker.

 

Upcoming, Spring 2013

 

Apr 29   Michael Klein + Will Schutt       

May 6    Glyn Maxwell + Louis Jenkins         

May 13  Sarah Arvio + David Kinloch 

May 20  Eileen Myles + Rebecca Wolff + Season Finale Party

Tonight at KGB: Yona Harvey + Lynn Melnick

 

KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present...

 

Yona Harvey + Lynn Melnick

 

Monday, April 15th, 2013

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Reading starts at 7:30pm

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85 East 4th Street * New York, NY 

Hosted by John Deming and Matthew Yeager

Series founded in 1997 by Star Black and David Lehman

Yona Harvey is a literary artist living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is the author of the poetry collection, Hemming the Water (Four Way Books: New York, 2013), and the recipient of an Individual Artist Grant from The Pittsburgh Foundation. Her poems can be found in jubilat, Gulf Coast, Callaloo, West Branch, and various journals and anthologies, including A Poet’s Craft: A Comprehensive Guide to Making and Sharing Your Poetry (Ed. Annie Finch). She lives with her husband and two children in Pittsburgh, PA, and teaches at Carnegie Mellon University.

 

Lynn Melnick’s first book of poetry is If I Should Say I Have Hope, published by YesYes books. Her poetry has appeared in BOMB,  Denver Quarterly, Guernica, Gulf Coast, jubilat, The Paris Review, A Public Space, and elsewhere. Her fiction has appeared in Opium and Forklift, Ohio, and she has written essays and book reviews for Boston Review, Coldfront, Los Angeles Review of Books, Poetry Daily, and VIDAweb, among others. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters.

 

Upcoming, Spring 2013

 

Apr 22   Sharon Olds + Michael Dickman   

Apr 29   Michael Klein + Will Schutt       

May 6    Glyn Maxwell + Louis Jenkins         

May 13  Sarah Arvio + David Kinloch 

May 20  Eileen Myles + Rebecca Wolff + Season Finale Party  

Tonight at KGB: Major Jackson + Heather Christle

 

KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present...

 

Heather Christle + Major Jackson

 

Monday, April 8th, 2013

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Reading starts at 7:30pm

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85 East 4th Street * New York, NY 

 

Hosted by John Deming and Matthew Yeager

Series founded in 1997 by Star Black and David Lehman

 

Major Jackson's books of poems are Holding Company (2010, Norton) and Hoops (2006, Norton), both finalists for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature-Poetry, and Leaving Saturn (2002, University of Georgia Press), which was awarded the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. He is a recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress.  Jackson is the Richard Dennis Green and Gold Professor at University of Vermont and a core faculty member of the Bennington Writing Seminars.

 

 

Heather Christle is the author of What Is Amazing (Wesleyan University Press, 2012), The Difficult Farm (Octopus Books, 2009), and The Trees The Trees (Octopus Books, 2011), which won the 2012 Believer Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared in publications including Boston Review, Gulf Coast, The New Yorker, and The Best American Poetry. She teaches poetry at Sarah Lawrence College, and has also taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Emory University, where she was the 2009-2011 Poetry Writing Fellow. She is the Web Editor for jubilat, the coordinator of the Royal Society of Hadley for Improving Natural Knowledge at Flying Object, and frequently a writer in residence at the Juniper Summer Writing Institute. A native of Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, she lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

 

 

 

Remaining Spring 2013 Schedule:

 

Apr 15   Lynn Melnick + Yona Harvey  

Apr 22   Sharon Olds + Michael Dickman   

Apr 29   Michael Klein + Will Schutt       

May 6    Glyn Maxwell + Louis Jenkins         

May 13  Sarah Arvio + David Kinloch 

May 20  Eileen Myles + Rebecca Wolff + Season Finale Party  

Tonight at KGB: Jackie Clark + Adam Fitzgerald

 

KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present...

 

Jackie Clark + Adam Fitzgerald

 

Monday, April 1st, 2013

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Reading starts at 7:30pm

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85 East 4th Street * New York, NY 

Hosted by John Deming and Matthew Yeager

Series founded in 1997 by Star Black and David Lehman

Jackie Clark's first book of poems is Aphoria, from Brooklyn Arts Press.  She is also the author of three chapbooks, I Live Here Now (Lame House Press), Red Fortress (H_NGM_N) and Office Work (Greying Ghost).  The series editor of Poets off Poetry on Coldfront, a monthly series where poets write about music, she has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the New Jersey State Council of the Arts. She lives in Jersey City and can be found online at http://nohelpforthat.com

 

 

Adam Fitzgerald is a New York City based poet, editor and teacher. He is founding editor of the poetry journal Maggy, and the small artisan press Monk Books that has published Mark Strand (prose poems and artworks) and Bernadette Mayer (translations of Catullus introduced by Dorothea Lasky). In 2007, he completed a Masters while editing two unpublished essays of John Ashbery on W.H. Auden and Henry Green at Boston University’s Editorial Institute. In 2010, he received his MFA from Columbia University’s School of the Arts in Poetry. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in A Public Space, Boston Review, Conjunctions, The Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere. Currently, he adjunct professes in literature and creative writing at Rutgers University and The New School. He lives in a pea-sized studio in the East Village. His debut collection of poetry, The Late Parade, will be published by W.W. Norton’s Liveright imprint in June 2013.

Tonight at KGB: Daisy Fried + Idra Novey

KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present...

 

Daisy Fried + Idra Novey

 

Monday, March 25th, 2013

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Reading starts at 7:30pm

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85 East 4th Street * New York, NY 

Hosted by John Deming and Matthew Yeager

Series founded in 1997 by David Lehman and Star Black

Daisy Fried is the author of three books of poetry, Women's Poetry: Poems and Advice (2013), My Brother Is Getting Arrested Again (2006), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and She Didn’t Mean to Do It (2000), winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. She has received Guggenheim, Hodder, and Pew Fellowships, a Pushcart Prize, and the Cohen Award from Ploughshares. Fried reviews poetry books for the New York Times, Poetry, and the Threepenny Review and was awarded Poetry magazine’s Editor’s Prize. She has taught creative writing at Bryn Mawr College and in Warren Wilson College’s low-residency MFA program. Fried lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Idra Novey is the author of Exit, Civilian, selected for the 2011 National Poetry Series by Patricia Smith, and The Next Country.  Her poems have been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, in Poetry Magazine, Slate, and the Hairpin.  Her most recent translation is Clarice Lispector’s novel The Passion According to G.H. (New Directions, 2012). She teaches at NYU and in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University.

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Upcoming, Spring 2013

 

Apr 1     Adam Fitzgerald + Jackie Clark   

Apr 8     Major Jackson + Heather Christle       

Apr 15   Lynn Melnick + Yona Harvey  

Apr 22   Sharon Olds + Michael Dickman   

Apr 29   Michael Klein + Will Schutt       

May 6    Glyn Maxwell + Louis Jenkins         

May 13  TBA + TBA  

May 20  Eileen Myles + Rebecca Wolff + Season Finale Party 

Tonight at KGB: Monica Ferrell and Arisa White

KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present...

 

Monica Ferrell + Arisa White

 

Monday, March 18th, 2013

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Reading starts at 7:30pm

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85 East 4th Street * New York, NY 

Hosted by John Deming and Matthew Yeager

Series founded in 1997 by David Lehman and Star Black

Monica Ferrell is the author of a collection of poems, Beasts for the Chase, which won the Kathryn A. Morton Prize and was published by Sarabande Books, as well as of a novel, The Answer Is Always Yes (The Dial Press/Random House), which was named a Borders Original Voices Selection and one of Booklist’s Top Ten Debut Novels of 2008.  Her poems have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Tin House, Slate, and many other journals and anthologies.  A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and “Discovery”/ The Nation prizewinner, she directs the creative writing program at Purchase College and lives in Brooklyn.

Arisa White is a Cave Canem fellow, an MFA graduate from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the author of the poetry collections Hurrah's Nest and A Penny Saved. Her debut collection, Hurrah's Nest, has been nominated for a 44th NAACP Image Award. Co-editor of HER KIND, the official blog of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, and the editorial manager for Dance Studio Life magazine, Arisa has received residencies, fellowships, or scholarships from Port Townsend Writers’ Conference, Rose O’Neill Literary House, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Hedgebrook, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Prague Summer Program, Fine Arts Work Center, and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2005, her poetry has been widely published and is featured on the recording WORD with the Jessica Jones Quartet. Arisa is a native New Yorker, living in Oakland, CA, with her partner and is currently working on adapting her chapbook, Post Pardon, into an opera.

 

Upcoming, Spring 2013

  

Mar 25   Daisy Fried + Idra Novey 

Apr 1     Adam Fitzgerald + Jackie Clark   

Apr 8     Major Jackson + Heather Christle       

Apr 15   Lynn Melnick + Yona Harvey  

Apr 22   Sharon Olds + Michael Dickman   

Apr 29   Michael Klein + Will Schutt       

May 6    Glyn Maxwell + Louis Jenkins         

May 13  TBA + TBA  

May 20  Eileen Myles + Rebecca Wolff + Season Finale Party  

          

Tonight at KGB: David Lehman + James Kimbrell

 

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

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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.