Monday, April 14, 2008 @ 7:30 PM
Admission is FREE
KGB Bar
85 East 4th Street
(between 2nd Ave. & Bowery)
New York, NY 10003
Phone: 212-505-3360
Kate Colby is the author of Fruitlands, winner of the 2007 Norma Farber First Book Award, selected by Rosmarie Waldrop, as well as chapbooks from Anadama and Belladonna. Recent work has appeared in Aufgabe, New American Writing and Vanitas. She grew up in Massachusetts and has recently moved to Providence after 11 years in San Francisco.
Mónica de la Torre is author of the new book of poems Talk Shows, co-author of the book Appendices, Illustrations & Notes with artist Terence Gower, and co-editor, with Michael Wiegers, of Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry. Born and raised in Mexico City, she moved to New York in 1993. She has been the poetry editor of The Brooklyn Rail since 2001 and is pursuing a PhD in Spanish Literature at Columbia University. Her work has appeared in journals including Art on Paper, BOMB, Bombay Gin, Boston Review, Chain, Circumference, Fence, Mandorla, Review: Latin American Literature and Arts, and Twentysix.
–MQ & LC