KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present...
Michael Dumanis + Mathias Svalina
October 3
Hosted by Megin Jimenez and Matthew Yeager
Reading starts at 7:30pm
Admission is FREE
85 East 4th Street
Michael Dumanis was born in the former Soviet Union and lived there until 1981, when his parents were granted political asylum in the United States. Since then, he has lived in Boston, Buffalo, Rochester, Baltimore, Iowa City, New York, Bulgaria, Chicago, Cincinnati, Houston, Nebraska, and Cleveland. He is the author of My Soviet Union, winner of the 2006 Juniper Prize for Poetry, and the co-editor, with poet Cate Marvin, of Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century. He is presently an assistant professor of English at Cleveland State University, where he also serves as Director of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center. Read some of his work in Jacket.
Mathias Svalina is a co-editor of Octopus Books and Magazine and author of numerous chapbooks, including the award-winning Creation Myths from New Michigan Press. His first book, Destruction Myth, was recently published by Cleveland State University Poetry Center. His second book, I Am A Very Productive Entrepreneur, is available from Mud Luscious Press. The book is a series of absurdist business plans. And it's a novel(la). Read some of his poems in H_NGM_N.
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Upcoming, Fall 2011
October 10 Tina Chang + Angie Estes
October 17 Gabrielle Calvocoressi + Timothy Donnelly
October 24 Bruce Covey + Emily Kendal Frey
November 7 Star Black, Miranda Field + Mark Wunderlich
November 14 Thomas Sayers Ellis, Amy Gerstler + Roberto Tejada
November 21 Michael Cirelli + Jeffrey McDaniel
November 28 Viva VIDA: Erin Belieu + Cate Marvin
December 5 David Lehman + Vijay Seshadri
December 12 Tony Hoagland + Special Guest
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