Monday @ KGB: Sandra Simonds & Amy Lemmon

The KGB Monday Night Poetry Reading Series
Hosted by Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez & Michael Quattrone

Presents . . .

Sandra Simonds & Amy Lemmon

Monday, October 12 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

Sandra Simonds is the author of Warsaw Bikini (Bloof Books, 2009) and several chapbooks--Tomorrow’s Bright Bracelets (forthcoming, Kitchen Press), The Pyrotechnics of Madame Trotter (forthcoming, Coconut), Bananas and Spiders (forthcoming, H_NGM_N), A Teeny Tiny Book of War (Teeny Tiny, 2008), The Humble Travelogues of Mr. Ian Worthington (Cy Gist, 2007) and The Tar Pit Diatoms (Otoliths, 2006)--as well as the founder of Wildlife, an experimental, handmade poetry magazine. She earned a BA in English and Psychology from UCLA and an MFA from the University of Montana. She is currently a PhD student in Creative Writing at Florida State University. For more information, visit her blog at ssandrasimonds.blogspot.com.

 Amy Lemmon is the author of two collections of poetry, Fine Motor (Sow's Ear Poetry Review Press, 2008) and Saint Nobody (Red Hen Press, 2008). Her poems and essay have appeared in Rolling Stone, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Verse, Marginalia, and other magazines. Her poem "Karyotype" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the editors of Barrow Street and published as a limited edition broadside (created by artist Amber McMillan) by the Center for Book Arts. She has contributed reviews and articles to New Letters, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry, and the Facts on File Companion to Twentieth-Century British Poetry. In 2006 she was awarded the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Prize by Red Hen Press. Work from ABBA:The Poems, a sequence written in collaboration with Denise Duhamel, appears in The Birmingham Review, Paterson Literary Review, and at lafovea.org. She is poetry editor of the online literary magazine Ducts.org. Amy holds a PhD in English/Creative Writing from the University of Cincinnati and is Assistant Chair of the English and Speech Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

Presents . . .

Sandra Simonds & Amy Lemmon

Monday, October 12 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

Sandra Simonds is the author of Warsaw Bikini (Bloof Books, 2009) and several chapbooks--Tomorrow’s Bright Bracelets (forthcoming, Kitchen Press), The Pyrotechnics of Madame Trotter (forthcoming, Coconut), Bananas and Spiders (forthcoming, H_NGM_N), A Teeny Tiny Book of War (Teeny Tiny, 2008), The Humble Travelogues of Mr. Ian Worthington (Cy Gist, 2007) and The Tar Pit Diatoms (Otoliths, 2006)--as well as the founder of Wildlife, an experimental, handmade poetry magazine. She earned a BA in English and Psychology from UCLA and an MFA from the University of Montana. She is currently a PhD student in Creative Writing at Florida State University. For more information, visit her blog at ssandrasimonds.blogspot.com.

 Amy Lemmon is the author of two collections of poetry, Fine Motor (Sow's Ear Poetry Review Press, 2008) and Saint Nobody (Red Hen Press, 2008). Her poems and essay have appeared in Rolling Stone, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Verse, Marginalia, and other magazines. Her poem "Karyotype" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the editors of Barrow Street and published as a limited edition broadside (created by artist Amber McMillan) by the Center for Book Arts. She has contributed reviews and articles to New Letters, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry, and the Facts on File Companion to Twentieth-Century British Poetry. In 2006 she was awarded the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Prize by Red Hen Press. Work from ABBA:The Poems, a sequence written in collaboration with Denise Duhamel, appears in The Birmingham Review, Paterson Literary Review, and at lafovea.org. She is poetry editor of the online literary magazine Ducts.org. Amy holds a PhD in English/Creative Writing from the University of Cincinnati and is Assistant Chair of the English and Speech Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

Presents . . .

Sandra Simonds & Amy Lemmon

Monday, October 12 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

Sandra Simonds is the author of Warsaw Bikini (Bloof Books, 2009) and several chapbooks--Tomorrow’s Bright Bracelets (forthcoming, Kitchen Press), The Pyrotechnics of Madame Trotter (forthcoming, Coconut), Bananas and Spiders (forthcoming, H_NGM_N), A Teeny Tiny Book of War (Teeny Tiny, 2008), The Humble Travelogues of Mr. Ian Worthington (Cy Gist, 2007) and The Tar Pit Diatoms (Otoliths, 2006)--as well as the founder of Wildlife, an experimental, handmade poetry magazine. She earned a BA in English and Psychology from UCLA and an MFA from the University of Montana. She is currently a PhD student in Creative Writing at Florida State University. For more information, visit her blog at ssandrasimonds.blogspot.com.

 Amy Lemmon is the author of two collections of poetry, Fine Motor (Sow's Ear Poetry Review Press, 2008) and Saint Nobody (Red Hen Press, 2008). Her poems and essay have appeared in Rolling Stone, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Verse, Marginalia, and other magazines. Her poem "Karyotype" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the editors of Barrow Street and published as a limited edition broadside (created by artist Amber McMillan) by the Center for Book Arts. She has contributed reviews and articles to New Letters, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry, and the Facts on File Companion to Twentieth-Century British Poetry. In 2006 she was awarded the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Prize by Red Hen Press. Work from ABBA:The Poems, a sequence written in collaboration with Denise Duhamel, appears in The Birmingham Review, Paterson Literary Review, and at lafovea.org. She is poetry editor of the online literary magazine Ducts.org. Amy holds a PhD in English/Creative Writing from the University of Cincinnati and is Assistant Chair of the English and Speech Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

Sandra Simonds & Amy Lemmon

Monday, October 12 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

Sandra Simonds is the author of Warsaw Bikini (Bloof Books, 2009) and several chapbooks--Tomorrow’s Bright Bracelets (forthcoming, Kitchen Press), The Pyrotechnics of Madame Trotter (forthcoming, Coconut), Bananas and Spiders (forthcoming, H_NGM_N), A Teeny Tiny Book of War (Teeny Tiny, 2008), The Humble Travelogues of Mr. Ian Worthington (Cy Gist, 2007) and The Tar Pit Diatoms (Otoliths, 2006)--as well as the founder of Wildlife, an experimental, handmade poetry magazine. She earned a BA in English and Psychology from UCLA and an MFA from the University of Montana. She is currently a PhD student in Creative Writing at Florida State University. For more information, visit her blog at ssandrasimonds.blogspot.com.

 Amy Lemmon is the author of two collections of poetry, Fine Motor (Sow's Ear Poetry Review Press, 2008) and Saint Nobody (Red Hen Press, 2008). Her poems and essay have appeared in Rolling Stone, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Verse, Marginalia, and other magazines. Her poem "Karyotype" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the editors of Barrow Street and published as a limited edition broadside (created by artist Amber McMillan) by the Center for Book Arts. She has contributed reviews and articles to New Letters, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry, and the Facts on File Companion to Twentieth-Century British Poetry. In 2006 she was awarded the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Prize by Red Hen Press. Work from ABBA:The Poems, a sequence written in collaboration with Denise Duhamel, appears in The Birmingham Review, Paterson Literary Review, and at lafovea.org. She is poetry editor of the online literary magazine Ducts.org. Amy holds a PhD in English/Creative Writing from the University of Cincinnati and is Assistant Chair of the English and Speech Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

Sandra Simonds & Amy Lemmon

Monday, October 12 @ 7:30 PM

Admission is FREE

Sandra Simonds is the author of Warsaw Bikini (Bloof Books, 2009) and several chapbooks--Tomorrow’s Bright Bracelets (forthcoming, Kitchen Press), The Pyrotechnics of Madame Trotter (forthcoming, Coconut), Bananas and Spiders (forthcoming, H_NGM_N), A Teeny Tiny Book of War (Teeny Tiny, 2008), The Humble Travelogues of Mr. Ian Worthington (Cy Gist, 2007) and The Tar Pit Diatoms (Otoliths, 2006)--as well as the founder of Wildlife, an experimental, handmade poetry magazine. She earned a BA in English and Psychology from UCLA and an MFA from the University of Montana. She is currently a PhD student in Creative Writing at Florida State University. For more information, visit her blog at ssandrasimonds.blogspot.com.

 Amy Lemmon is the author of two collections of poetry, Fine Motor (Sow's Ear Poetry Review Press, 2008) and Saint Nobody (Red Hen Press, 2008). Her poems and essay have appeared in Rolling Stone, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Verse, Marginalia, and other magazines. Her poem "Karyotype" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the editors of Barrow Street and published as a limited edition broadside (created by artist Amber McMillan) by the Center for Book Arts. She has contributed reviews and articles to New Letters, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry, and the Facts on File Companion to Twentieth-Century British Poetry. In 2006 she was awarded the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Prize by Red Hen Press. Work from ABBA:The Poems, a sequence written in collaboration with Denise Duhamel, appears in The Birmingham Review, Paterson Literary Review, and at lafovea.org. She is poetry editor of the online literary magazine Ducts.org. Amy holds a PhD in English/Creative Writing from the University of Cincinnati and is Assistant Chair of the English and Speech Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

Sandra Simonds is the author of Warsaw Bikini (Bloof Books, 2009) and several chapbooks--Tomorrow’s Bright Bracelets (forthcoming, Kitchen Press), The Pyrotechnics of Madame Trotter (forthcoming, Coconut), Bananas and Spiders (forthcoming, H_NGM_N), A Teeny Tiny Book of War (Teeny Tiny, 2008), The Humble Travelogues of Mr. Ian Worthington (Cy Gist, 2007) and The Tar Pit Diatoms (Otoliths, 2006)--as well as the founder of Wildlife, an experimental, handmade poetry magazine. She earned a BA in English and Psychology from UCLA and an MFA from the University of Montana. She is currently a PhD student in Creative Writing at Florida State University. For more information, visit her blog at ssandrasimonds.blogspot.com.

 Amy Lemmon is the author of two collections of poetry, Fine Motor (Sow's Ear Poetry Review Press, 2008) and Saint Nobody (Red Hen Press, 2008). Her poems and essay have appeared in Rolling Stone, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Verse, Marginalia, and other magazines. Her poem "Karyotype" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the editors of Barrow Street and published as a limited edition broadside (created by artist Amber McMillan) by the Center for Book Arts. She has contributed reviews and articles to New Letters, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry, and the Facts on File Companion to Twentieth-Century British Poetry. In 2006 she was awarded the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Prize by Red Hen Press. Work from ABBA:The Poems, a sequence written in collaboration with Denise Duhamel, appears in The Birmingham Review, Paterson Literary Review, and at lafovea.org. She is poetry editor of the online literary magazine Ducts.org. Amy holds a PhD in English/Creative Writing from the University of Cincinnati and is Assistant Chair of the English and Speech Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.