Roger Reeves + Russell Dillon
Monday, April 28, 2014
Hosted by John Deming and Matthew Yeager
Series founded in 1997 by Star Black and David Lehman
Doors open at 7:00 pm
Reading starts at 7:30pm
Admission is FREE
www.KgbBar.com
85 East 4th Street * New York, NY
Roger Reeves's poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, and Tin House, among others. Kim Addonizio selected “Kletic of Walt Whitman” for the Best New Poets 2009 anthology. He was awarded a 2013 NEA Fellowship, Ruth Lilly Fellowship by the Poetry Foundation in 2008, two Bread Loaf Scholarships, an Alberta H. Walker Scholarship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and two Cave Canem Fellowships. He earned his PhD the University of Texas-Austin and is currently an assistant professor of poetry at the University of Illinois, Chicago. His first book is King Me (Copper Canyon Press, 2013).
Russell Dillon is the author of Eternal Patrol (H-NGM-N BKS 2013), co-editor of Big Bell, and author of the chapbook Secret Damage. He began life in New York, continued it in San Francisco, and now continues it further in New York.
ONLY TWO READINGS REMAIN IN OUR SPRING SEASON:
May 5 Ariana Reines + Laura Sims
May 12 Mark Bibbins + Lucie Brock-Broido + Season Finale Party