The Best American Poetry

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

www.KgbBar.com

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.

 

 

Tonight at KGB: Music Night feat. Michael Zapruder & Friends

KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present...

 

Pink Thunder Poetry Music Night!!! 

Michael Zapruder & Friends

Monday, Feb. 25, 2013

Hosted by John Deming and Matthew Yeager

Doors open at 7:00 pm

Reading starts at 7:30pm

Admission is FREE

www.KgbBar.com

85 East 4th Street * New York, NY

Click the Link to Listen to "Florida" by Travis Nichols, 

adapted and performed by Michael Zapruder

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVSl1eMFwnU

 

Michael Zapruder is an award-winning songwriter and recording artist, and a co-founder of San Francisco's Howells Transmitter arts collective and record label.  His albums include 52 Songs, This is a Beautiful Town, New Ways of Letting Go, and Dragon Chinese Cocktail Horoscope, which won a 2009 Independent Music Award for Best Folk / Singer Song-Writer Album.  His most recent work is Pink Thunder, a collection of free verse pop art-songs made from the poems of more than twenty contemporary American poets. Contributors include Noelle Kocot, Matthew Zapruder,  James Tate, David Berman, D. A. Powell, Matthew Rohrer, and Joshua Beckman.

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Upcoming, Spring 2013

Mar 4     David Lehman + James Kimbrell 

Mar 11   KGB POST AWP HALF-OPEN MIC     

Mar 18   Monica Ferrell + Arisa White   

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  

          

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Tonight at KGB: Todd Boss & Joseph Voth

KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present...

 

Todd Boss + Joseph Voth

 

Monday, Feb. 18, 2013

Hosted by John Deming and Matthew Yeager

Doors open at 7:00 pm

Reading starts at 7:30pm

Admission is FREE

www.KgbBar.com

85 East 4th Street * New York, NY 

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Todd Boss's poetry collections are Pitch (W. W. Norton, 2012) and Yellowrocket (2008), both Midwest Bookseller’s Choice award selections. His 35-part “Fragments for the 35W Bridge” was part of a collaboration with Swedish artist Maja Spasova called “Project 35W,” an August 2012 art installation on the Mississippi River. Panic, Todd’s verse retelling of Knut Hamsun’s 1894 novella Pan, will premiere as a one-man opera in late 2013, arranged by Boston Conservatory’s Andy Vores. Todd is a founding co-director of Motionpoems, a leading producer of poetry films now collaborating with Copper Canyon, Milkweed, Graywolf and other fine publishers. 

 

Joseph Voth's first volume of poetry, Living with Noise, was published by NorthShore Press in 2011.  His work has been published in Epoch, South Carolina Review, Connecticut Review, and numerous other journals.  After teaching at San Diego State for ten years, he embarked on a classic and melodramatic sojourn in New York City, where he suffered and completed a second manuscript before returning to teach in CA at College of the Canyons in LA.

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Upcoming, Spring 2013

Feb 25   Pink Thunder Poetry Music Night: Michael Zapruder + Friends   

Mar 4     David Lehman + James Kimbrell 

Mar 11   KGB POST AWP HALF-OPEN MIC     

Mar 18   Monica Ferrell + Arisa White   

Mar 25   Daisy Fried + Idra Novey 

Apr 1     Nate Pritts + Jennifer Fortin + 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: Paul Muldoon + Jonathan Wells

The KGB Bar Monday Night Poetry Series kicks off its Spring 2013 season tomorrow night with a reading by Paul Muldoon and Jonathan Wells. The reading will begin at 7:30 pm.

Hosted by Matthew Yeager and John Deming

PAUL MULDOON, whose The Word on the Street: Rock Lyrics will be released this month, has been described by The Times Literary Supplement as "the most significant English-language poet born since the second World War."  A native of Country Armagh, Northern Ireland, he is the author of twelve books of poetry, including Moy Sand and Gravel, which won the Pulitzer Prize.  Among Muldoon's distinctions are a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1990, the T. S. Eliot Award for The Annals of Chile in 1994, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature in 1996, and the Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for his New Selected Poems in 1996. In 2003 he was awarded the Griffin International Prize for Excellence in Poetry.  The poetry editor of The New Yorker since 2007, he is currently the Howard G.B. Clark '21 Professor at Princeton University. 

JONATHAN WELLS is the author of Train Dance  (Four Way Books, 2011).  His poems have been published in many literary journals including Hayden's Ferry, Paris Review Daily, Poetry International, and The New Yorker.  He is also the editor of Third Rail: An Anthology of Rock and Roll, which was published by Simon & Schuster and MTV Books in 2007, with a foreword by Bono. Previously, he worked at Rolling Stone Magazine as director of Rolling Stone Press, the magazine's division of books.  

Here is the remaining Spring 2013 Schedule:

Feb 11: Paul Muldoon + Jonathan Wells

Feb 18: Todd Boss + Joseph Voth

Feb 25: Pink Thunder Poetry Music Night: Michael Zapruder & Friends

March 4: David Lehman + James Kimbrell

March 11: KGB POST-AWP HALF-OPEN MIC

March 18: Monica Ferrell + Arisa White

March 25: Daisy Fried + Idra Novey

April 1: Nate Pritts + Jennifer Fortin + Jackie Clark 

April 8: Major Jackson + Heather Christle

April 15: Lynn Melnick + Yona Harvey

April 22: Sharon Olds + Michael Dickman

April 29: Michael Klein + Will Schutt 

May 6: Glyn Maxwell + Louis Jenkins 

May 13: TBA + TBA

May 20: Eileen Myles + Rebecca Wolff + Season Finale Party

 

KGB Monday Night Poetry Series Spring 2013 Lineup

The KGB Monday Night Poetry Series will launch this Monday, February 11 with readings by Paul Muldoon and Jonathan Wells. Here's the full Spring Schedule:

 

Feb 11: Paul Muldoon + Jonathan Wells

Feb 18: Todd Boss + Joseph Voth

Feb 25: Pink Thunder Poetry Music Night: Michael Zapruder & Friends

March 4: David Lehman + James Kimbrell

March 11: KGB POST-AWP HALF-OPEN MIC

March 18: Monica Ferrell + Arisa White

March 25: Daisy Fried + Idra Novey

April 1: Nate Pritts + Jennifer Fortin + Jackie Clark 

April 8: Major Jackson + Heather Christle

April 15: Lynn Melnick + Yona Harvey

April 22: Sharon Olds + Michael Dickman

April 29: Michael Klein + Will Schutt 

May 6: Glyn Maxwell + Louis Jenkins 

May 13: TBA + TBA

May 20: Eileen Myles + Rebecca Wolff + Season Finale Party

Series hosted by Matthew Yeager and John Deming

 

Tonight at KGB: Mark Strand & Malachi Black

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

www.KgbBar.com

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.

Tonight at KGB: Mark Doty + David Lehman

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

www.KgbBar.com

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.

Upcoming, Fall 2012
    
December 10   Mark Strand + Malachi Black + Season Finale Party!!!!   

Tonight at KGB: Ana Bozicevic, Leopoldine Core + Star Black

KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present...

 

Ana Bozicevic + Leopoldine Core + Star Black (KGB Poetry Founder!)

 

Monday Nov. 26, 2012

Hosted by Matthew Yeager and John Deming

Reading starts at 7:30pm

Doors open at 7:00 pm

Admission is FREE

www.KgbBar.com

85 East 4th Street * New York, NY 

Ana Bozicevic  is the author of Stars of the Night Commute and Rise in the Fall. Her translation of Zvonko Karanović recently received a PEN American Center/NYSCA grant. She flirts with knowledge at The Graduate Center, CUNY in New York City..

Leopoldine Core was born and raised in Manhattan. Her poems and fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Open City, The Literarian, Joyland Magazine, Agriculture Reader, Harp & Altar, Drunken Boat, The Brooklyn Rail, No Dear and Rattapallax.

Star Black founded the KGB Poetry Series in 1997 with David Lehman. Her most recent books of poems are Ghostwood (Melville House) and Velleity's Shade (Sarurnalia Books). Her collages were recently exhibited at John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University's MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literature.

Upcoming, Fall 2012
       
December 3     David Lehman + Mark Doty       
December 10   Mark Strand + Malachi Black + Season Finale Party!!!!       

Tonight at KGB: Henri Cole & John Koethe

 

KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present...

 
Henri Cole + John Koethe

 

Nov. 19, 2012

Hosted by Matthew Yeager and John Deming

Reading starts at 7:30pm

Doors open at 7:00 pm

Admission is FREE

www.KgbBar.com

85 East 4th Street * New York, NY 

Henri Cole is the author of numerous collections, including Touch: Poems (2011), LA Times Book Prize finalist Pierce the Skin: Selected Poems 1982-2007 (2010), Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize winner Blackbird and Wolf (2007), and Pulitzer Prize finalist and Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award winner Middle Earth (2003). He has also collaborated with visual artists Jenny Holzer and Kiki Smith.  Cole has received the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Rome Prize, the Berlin Prize, the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Carmargo Foundation. From 1982 to 1988 he served as the executive director of the Academy of American Poets. Cole has taught at Ohio State University, Harvard University, and Yale University. He lives in Boston.

John Koethe is the author of several collections of poetry, including North Point North: New and Selected Poems (2002).  His most recent book, Ninety-Fifth Street, won the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of the American Poets.  He received the Kingsley Tufts Award for Falling Water (1997), the Frank O’Hara Award for Domes (1973), and the Bernard F. Connors Award. His poetry has been included in several anthologies, including Best American Poetry.  He has been granted fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He has also received a lifetime achievement award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers.  Critic Andrew Yaphe calls Koethe “one of our foremost Romantic poets, an inheritor of the tradition of Stevens and Ashbery.”

KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present...

 

2012 National Book Award Judges' Reading!

Laura Kasischke, Dana Levin, Maurice Manning & Patrick Rosal

Nov. 12, 2012

Hosted by Matthew Yeager and John Deming

Reading starts at 7:30pm on the DOT!!

Come at 7:00 if you want a seat

Admission is FREE

www.KgbBar.com

85 East 4th Street * New York, NY 

Laura Kasischke was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Michigan. Her books of poetry include Wild Brides (1992), Fire and Flower (1998), Dance and Disappear (2002), Gardening in the Dark (2004), Lilies Without (2007), and Space, in Chains (2011), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Kasischke has won numerous awards for her poetry, including the Juniper Prize, the Beatrice Hawley Award, the Alice Fay DiCastagnola Award, the Bobst Award for Emerging Writers, and the Rilke Poetry Prize from the University of North Texas. She has also won several Pushcart Prizes, as well as received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Kasischke’s narrative expertise helps account for her dual career as a novelist. Her novels include Suspicious River (1996), White Bird in a Blizzard (1999), The Life Before her Eyes (2002), which was made into a movie starring Uma Thurman, In a Perfect World (2009), and The Raising (2011). Taking on such weighty subjects as global pandemics and school shootings, Kasischke’s novels have nonetheless enjoyed broad popular appeal. 

Dana Levin’s first book, In the Surgical Theatre, was awarded the 1999 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize and went on to receive nearly every award available to first books and emerging poets. Copper Canyon Press brought out her second book, Wedding Day, in 2005. The Los Angeles Times says of her work, "Dana Levin's poems are extravagant...her mind keeps making unexpected connections and the poems push beyond convention...they surprise us." Her poetry and essays have appeared in many anthologies and magazines, including APR, Poetry, and The Paris Review. She has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN, the Witter Bynner Foundation and the Library of Congress, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, and the Whiting Foundation. A 2007 Guggenheim Fellow, Levin’s most recent book is Sky Burial (Copper Canyon), which was noted for 2011 year-end honors by The New Yorker, the San Francisco Chronicle, Coldfront, and Library Journal. A teacher of poetry for over twenty years, she co-chairs the Creative Writing and Literature Department at Santa Fe University of Art and Design.

Maurice Manning’s first book of poems, Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions (2001) was chosen by poet and judge W.S. Merwin for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. His subsequent books include A Companion for Owls: Being the Commonplace Book of D. Boone, Lone Hunter, Back Woodsman, &c. (2004), Bucolics (2007), and The Common Man (2010), which was one of two finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in poetry. Manning was inspired by the lives of his grandmothers, great grandmothers, and a great-great-grandmother, and he grew up listening to stories of his father’s childhood spent on a farm in Eastern Kentucky. Inventive and historical, his work reflects his heritage and a respect for the natural world. Manning received a fellowship at the Fine Art Work Center in Provincetown. He teaches at Transylvania University, a fine liberal arts college in Lexington, KY.

Patrick Rosal is the author of three full-length poetry collections, Boneshepherds, My American Kundiman, and Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive. His collections have been honored with the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award, Global Filipino Literary Award and the Asian American Writers Workshop Members' Choice Award. In 2009, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to the Philippines. He is currently on the faculty of Rutgers University-Camden's MFA program. He taught creative writing for several years at Bloomfield College and twice served on the faculty of Kundiman’s Summer Retreat for Asian American Poets. His poems and essays have been published widely in journals and anthologies including Tin House, Drunken Boat, American Poetry Review, New Orleans Review, Harvard Review, Crab Orchard Review, Indiana Review, North American Review, The Literary Review, Pindledyboz, Black Renaissance Noire, Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Non-Fiction, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art , and the Beacon Best. His work has been honored by the annual Allen Ginsberg Awards, the James Hearst Poetry Prize, the Arts and Letters Prize, Best of the Net among others. His chapbook Uncommon Denominators won the Palanquin Poetry Series Award from the University of South Carolina, Aiken. 

Upcoming, Fall 2012
       
November 19   Henri Cole + John Koethe                 
November 26   Ana Bozicevic + Star Black + TBD
December 3     David Lehman + Mark Doty       
December 10   Mark Strand + Malachi Black + Season Finale Party!!!!

Tonight at KGB: National Book Award Judges

KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present...

 

2012 National Book Award Judges' Reading!

Laura Kasischke, Dana Levin, Maurice Manning & Patrick Rosal

Nov. 12, 2012

Hosted by Matthew Yeager and John Deming

Reading starts at 7:30pm on the DOT!!

Come at 7:00 if you want a seat

Admission is FREE

www.KgbBar.com

85 East 4th Street * New York, NY 

Laura Kasischke was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Michigan. Her books of poetry include Wild Brides (1992), Fire and Flower (1998), Dance and Disappear (2002), Gardening in the Dark (2004), Lilies Without (2007), and Space, in Chains (2011), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Kasischke has won numerous awards for her poetry, including the Juniper Prize, the Beatrice Hawley Award, the Alice Fay DiCastagnola Award, the Bobst Award for Emerging Writers, and the Rilke Poetry Prize from the University of North Texas. She has also won several Pushcart Prizes, as well as received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Kasischke’s narrative expertise helps account for her dual career as a novelist. Her novels include Suspicious River (1996), White Bird in a Blizzard (1999), The Life Before her Eyes (2002), which was made into a movie starring Uma Thurman, In a Perfect World (2009), and The Raising (2011). Taking on such weighty subjects as global pandemics and school shootings, Kasischke’s novels have nonetheless enjoyed broad popular appeal. 

Dana Levin’s first book, In the Surgical Theatre, was awarded the 1999 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize and went on to receive nearly every award available to first books and emerging poets. Copper Canyon Press brought out her second book, Wedding Day, in 2005. The Los Angeles Times says of her work, "Dana Levin's poems are extravagant...her mind keeps making unexpected connections and the poems push beyond convention...they surprise us." Her poetry and essays have appeared in many anthologies and magazines, including APR, Poetry, and The Paris Review. She has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN, the Witter Bynner Foundation and the Library of Congress, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, and the Whiting Foundation. A 2007 Guggenheim Fellow, Levin’s most recent book is Sky Burial (Copper Canyon), which was noted for 2011 year-end honors by The New Yorker, the San Francisco Chronicle, Coldfront, and Library Journal. A teacher of poetry for over twenty years, she co-chairs the Creative Writing and Literature Department at Santa Fe University of Art and Design.

Maurice Manning’s first book of poems, Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions (2001) was chosen by poet and judge W.S. Merwin for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. His subsequent books include A Companion for Owls: Being the Commonplace Book of D. Boone, Lone Hunter, Back Woodsman, &c. (2004), Bucolics (2007), and The Common Man (2010), which was one of two finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in poetry. Manning was inspired by the lives of his grandmothers, great grandmothers, and a great-great-grandmother, and he grew up listening to stories of his father’s childhood spent on a farm in Eastern Kentucky. Inventive and historical, his work reflects his heritage and a respect for the natural world. Manning received a fellowship at the Fine Art Work Center in Provincetown. He teaches at Transylvania University, a fine liberal arts college in Lexington, KY.

Patrick Rosal is the author of three full-length poetry collections, Boneshepherds, My American Kundiman, and Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive. His collections have been honored with the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award, Global Filipino Literary Award and the Asian American Writers Workshop Members' Choice Award. In 2009, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to the Philippines. He is currently on the faculty of Rutgers University-Camden's MFA program. He taught creative writing for several years at Bloomfield College and twice served on the faculty of Kundiman’s Summer Retreat for Asian American Poets. His poems and essays have been published widely in journals and anthologies including Tin House, Drunken Boat, American Poetry Review, New Orleans Review, Harvard Review, Crab Orchard Review, Indiana Review, North American Review, The Literary Review, Pindledyboz, Black Renaissance Noire, Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Non-Fiction, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art , and the Beacon Best. His work has been honored by the annual Allen Ginsberg Awards, the James Hearst Poetry Prize, the Arts and Letters Prize, Best of the Net among others. His chapbook Uncommon Denominators won the Palanquin Poetry Series Award from the University of South Carolina, Aiken. 

Upcoming, Fall 2012
       
November 19   Henri Cole + John Koethe                 
November 26   Ana Bozicevic + Star Black + TBD
December 3     David Lehman + Mark Doty       
December 10   Mark Strand + Malachi Black + Season Finale Party!!!!