Three Books, One Reading: Powerhouse Arena, Thursday, Sept 26, 7 -9 PM

Book Launch: Best American Poetry 2019 and two new books by David Lehman

who will read from

Playlist: a poem in 57 daily parts (U of Pittsburgh Press)

One Hundred Autobiographies: A Memoir (Cornell University Press)

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The Best American Poetry 2019 (guest ed. Major Jackson; Scribner)

Thursday Sep 26, 2019
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

POWERHOUSE @ the Archway
28 Adams Street (Corner of Adams & Water Street @ the Archway)
Brooklyn , NY 11201

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We are celebrating two new books by David Lehman – the memoir One Hundred Autobiographies and the poetry collection Playlist, and the 2019 edition of The Best American Poetry—“one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world” (Academy of American Poets)—which he edits (this edition guest edited by Major Jackson, award-winning poet and poetry editor of the Harvard Review.)

 

In One Hundred Autobiographies, David Lehman "brilliantly captures the despair, uncertainty, and anger he felt [upon receiving a cancer diagnosis] in these 100 short reflections on life, death, and writing." (Publisher's Weekly, starred review) 

Since 1988, The Best American Poetry has been the leading anthology of contemporary American poetry. The Washington Post said of the 2017 edition, “The poems…have a wonderful cohesion and flow, as if each contributes to a larger narrative
about life today…While readers may question some of the selections—an annual sport with this series—most will find much that resonates, including the insightful author notes at the back of the anthology.”

The state of the world has inspired many to write poetry, and to read it—to share all the rage, beauty, and every other thing under the sun in the way that only poetry can. Now the foremost anthology of contemporary American poetry returns, guest edited by Major Jackson, the poet and editor who, “makes poems that rumble and rock” (poet Dorianne Laux). This brilliant 2019 edition includes some of the year’s most defining, striking, and innovative poems and poets.
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