KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present...
Ted Jonathan + David Mills
Oct. 15, 2012
Hosted by Matthew Yeager, Megin Jimenez, and John Deming
Reading starts at 7:30pm
Admission is FREE
85 East 4th Street * New York, NY
TED JONATHAN is a poet and short story writer. Born and raised in the Bronx, he now lives in New Jersey. Bones & Jokes, his most recent full-length collection of poems and short stories, was published by NYQ Books (2009). His first collection Spiked Libido
was published by Neukeia Press. Ted's work has appeared in New York
Quarterly, Web Del Sol Review, Pedestal, Hiram Poetry Review, and many
other magazines. Translations of his poetry have appeared in multiple
Russian magazines.
DAVID MILLS is the author of
The Dream Detective, currently on the small press bestseller list. He
has a master's in creative writing from New York University and is a
cum laude grad of Yale University. He is a 2010 Queens Poet Laureate
Finalist. He has won NYFA, Breadloaf, Henry James, Brio, PALF (to travel
to a writer's conference in Ghana, West Africa) and Soros Fellowships
to travel to Poland to write poems about the Holocaust. Mills is the
2003 recipient of the Chicago State University Langston Hughes Poetry
Prize. His dramatic works have been commissioned by the Juilliard School
of Drama and the Urban Stages Theater. His poetry has appeared in
Ploughshares, Fence, Jubilat, Callaloo, Rattapallax, and many others. He has also recorded his poetry on RCA records with jazz artist Steve Coleman. He has written book reviews for the Washington Post, Boston Globe, Rolling Stone and New York Post. .
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