Monday @ KGB: Florence Cassen Mayers & C. K. Williams

The KGB Monday Night Poetry Reading Series

Hosted by Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez & Michael Quattrone

Presents . . .

Florence Cassen Mayers & C. K. Williams

Monday, May 11 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

Florence Cassen Mayers is a painter and graphic designer, and has written and designed a  series of 13 award-winning art books for major museums including the  Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the  Smithsonian, and the Boston Museum of Fine Art, published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. She has published poems in The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, Poetry, Western Humanities Review, Michigan  Quarterly Review, American Letters and Commentary, and in anthologies such as Thirteen Ways of Looking for a Poem, and Inside Literature (Longman  Publishers); Poetry: An Introduction (Bedford/St.Martins); The Bedford Introduction to Literature, and The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature (Bedford Books); Poetry: A Pocket Anthology (Penquin Academic Series). Her sestinas have been posted on the Best American Poetry blog. A native New Yorker, she lived for years in Bangladesh, Nigeria and Central and  South America. Her BFA is from Cornell University and her MFA from Columbia University.

C. K. Williams is the author of numerous books of poetry, including a Collected Poems (FSG, 2007), The Singing (FSG, 2003), which won the National Book Award; Repair (1999), winner of a Pulitzer Prize; The Vigil (1997); A Dream of Mind (1992); Flesh and Blood (1987), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; Tar (1983); With Ignorance (1997); I Am the Bitter Name (1992); and Lies (1969). Williams has also published works of translation, such as Selected Poems of Francis Ponge (1994); Canvas, by Adam Zagajewski (with Renata Gorczynski and Benjamin Ivry, 1991); The Bacchae of Euripides (1990); The Lark. The Thrush. The Starling. (Poems from Issa) (1983); and Women of Trachis, by Sophocles (with Gregory Dickerson, 1978). Among his many awards are an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, and a Pushcart Prize. Williams teaches in the creative writing program at Princeton University and lives part of each year in Paris. [Courtesy of the Academy of American Poets]

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

KGB Bar: 85 East 4th Street (btwn. Bowery & 2nd Ave) NYC 10003

Hosted by Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez & Michael Quattrone

Presents . . .

Florence Cassen Mayers & C. K. Williams

Monday, May 11 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

Florence Cassen Mayers is a painter and graphic designer, and has written and designed a  series of 13 award-winning art books for major museums including the  Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the  Smithsonian, and the Boston Museum of Fine Art, published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. She has published poems in The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, Poetry, Western Humanities Review, Michigan  Quarterly Review, American Letters and Commentary, and in anthologies such as Thirteen Ways of Looking for a Poem, and Inside Literature (Longman  Publishers); Poetry: An Introduction (Bedford/St.Martins); The Bedford Introduction to Literature, and The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature (Bedford Books); Poetry: A Pocket Anthology (Penquin Academic Series). Her sestinas have been posted on the Best American Poetry blog. A native New Yorker, she lived for years in Bangladesh, Nigeria and Central and  South America. Her BFA is from Cornell University and her MFA from Columbia University.

C. K. Williams is the author of numerous books of poetry, including a Collected Poems (FSG, 2007), The Singing (FSG, 2003), which won the National Book Award; Repair (1999), winner of a Pulitzer Prize; The Vigil (1997); A Dream of Mind (1992); Flesh and Blood (1987), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; Tar (1983); With Ignorance (1997); I Am the Bitter Name (1992); and Lies (1969). Williams has also published works of translation, such as Selected Poems of Francis Ponge (1994); Canvas, by Adam Zagajewski (with Renata Gorczynski and Benjamin Ivry, 1991); The Bacchae of Euripides (1990); The Lark. The Thrush. The Starling. (Poems from Issa) (1983); and Women of Trachis, by Sophocles (with Gregory Dickerson, 1978). Among his many awards are an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, and a Pushcart Prize. Williams teaches in the creative writing program at Princeton University and lives part of each year in Paris. [Courtesy of the Academy of American Poets]

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

KGB Bar: 85 East 4th Street (btwn. Bowery & 2nd Ave) NYC 10003

Hosted by Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez & Michael Quattrone

Presents . . .

Florence Cassen Mayers & C. K. Williams

Monday, May 11 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

Florence Cassen Mayers is a painter and graphic designer, and has written and designed a  series of 13 award-winning art books for major museums including the  Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the  Smithsonian, and the Boston Museum of Fine Art, published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. She has published poems in The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, Poetry, Western Humanities Review, Michigan  Quarterly Review, American Letters and Commentary, and in anthologies such as Thirteen Ways of Looking for a Poem, and Inside Literature (Longman  Publishers); Poetry: An Introduction (Bedford/St.Martins); The Bedford Introduction to Literature, and The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature (Bedford Books); Poetry: A Pocket Anthology (Penquin Academic Series). Her sestinas have been posted on the Best American Poetry blog. A native New Yorker, she lived for years in Bangladesh, Nigeria and Central and  South America. Her BFA is from Cornell University and her MFA from Columbia University.

C. K. Williams is the author of numerous books of poetry, including a Collected Poems (FSG, 2007), The Singing (FSG, 2003), which won the National Book Award; Repair (1999), winner of a Pulitzer Prize; The Vigil (1997); A Dream of Mind (1992); Flesh and Blood (1987), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; Tar (1983); With Ignorance (1997); I Am the Bitter Name (1992); and Lies (1969). Williams has also published works of translation, such as Selected Poems of Francis Ponge (1994); Canvas, by Adam Zagajewski (with Renata Gorczynski and Benjamin Ivry, 1991); The Bacchae of Euripides (1990); The Lark. The Thrush. The Starling. (Poems from Issa) (1983); and Women of Trachis, by Sophocles (with Gregory Dickerson, 1978). Among his many awards are an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, and a Pushcart Prize. Williams teaches in the creative writing program at Princeton University and lives part of each year in Paris. [Courtesy of the Academy of American Poets]

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

KGB Bar: 85 East 4th Street (btwn. Bowery & 2nd Ave) NYC 10003

Hosted by Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez & Michael Quattrone

Presents . . .

Florence Cassen Mayers & C. K. Williams

Monday, May 11 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

Florence Cassen Mayers is a painter and graphic designer, and has written and designed a  series of 13 award-winning art books for major museums including the  Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the  Smithsonian, and the Boston Museum of Fine Art, published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. She has published poems in The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, Poetry, Western Humanities Review, Michigan  Quarterly Review, American Letters and Commentary, and in anthologies such as Thirteen Ways of Looking for a Poem, and Inside Literature (Longman  Publishers); Poetry: An Introduction (Bedford/St.Martins); The Bedford Introduction to Literature, and The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature (Bedford Books); Poetry: A Pocket Anthology (Penquin Academic Series). Her sestinas have been posted on the Best American Poetry blog. A native New Yorker, she lived for years in Bangladesh, Nigeria and Central and  South America. Her BFA is from Cornell University and her MFA from Columbia University.

C. K. Williams is the author of numerous books of poetry, including a Collected Poems (FSG, 2007), The Singing (FSG, 2003), which won the National Book Award; Repair (1999), winner of a Pulitzer Prize; The Vigil (1997); A Dream of Mind (1992); Flesh and Blood (1987), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; Tar (1983); With Ignorance (1997); I Am the Bitter Name (1992); and Lies (1969). Williams has also published works of translation, such as Selected Poems of Francis Ponge (1994); Canvas, by Adam Zagajewski (with Renata Gorczynski and Benjamin Ivry, 1991); The Bacchae of Euripides (1990); The Lark. The Thrush. The Starling. (Poems from Issa) (1983); and Women of Trachis, by Sophocles (with Gregory Dickerson, 1978). Among his many awards are an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, and a Pushcart Prize. Williams teaches in the creative writing program at Princeton University and lives part of each year in Paris. [Courtesy of the Academy of American Poets]

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

Florence Cassen Mayers is a painter and graphic designer, and has written and designed a  series of 13 award-winning art books for major museums including the  Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the  Smithsonian, and the Boston Museum of Fine Art, published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. She has published poems in The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, Poetry, Western Humanities Review, Michigan  Quarterly Review, American Letters and Commentary, and in anthologies such as Thirteen Ways of Looking for a Poem, and Inside Literature (Longman  Publishers); Poetry: An Introduction (Bedford/St.Martins); The Bedford Introduction to Literature, and The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature (Bedford Books); Poetry: A Pocket Anthology (Penquin Academic Series). Her sestinas have been posted on the Best American Poetry blog. A native New Yorker, she lived for years in Bangladesh, Nigeria and Central and  South America. Her BFA is from Cornell University and her MFA from Columbia University.

C. K. Williams is the author of numerous books of poetry, including a Collected Poems (FSG, 2007), The Singing (FSG, 2003), which won the National Book Award; Repair (1999), winner of a Pulitzer Prize; The Vigil (1997); A Dream of Mind (1992); Flesh and Blood (1987), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; Tar (1983); With Ignorance (1997); I Am the Bitter Name (1992); and Lies (1969). Williams has also published works of translation, such as Selected Poems of Francis Ponge (1994); Canvas, by Adam Zagajewski (with Renata Gorczynski and Benjamin Ivry, 1991); The Bacchae of Euripides (1990); The Lark. The Thrush. The Starling. (Poems from Issa) (1983); and Women of Trachis, by Sophocles (with Gregory Dickerson, 1978). Among his many awards are an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, and a Pushcart Prize. Williams teaches in the creative writing program at Princeton University and lives part of each year in Paris. [Courtesy of the Academy of American Poets]

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.