Tonight at KGB: Sarah Arvio + David Kinloch

KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present…

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

85 East 4th Street * New York, NY 

Sarah Arvio, a poet and translator, has lived in New York, Rome, Paris, Caracas and Mexico City; for many years, she has translated for the United Nations in New York and Switzerland.  Her books of poetry, all out from Knopf, are Visits from the Seventh (2002) Sono: cantos (2006), and the recently published night thoughts: 70 dream poems & notes from an analysis, a hybrid work that is also a memoir and an essay on dreaming and psychoanalysis. She is now working on translations of poets from Spanish, French and Italian.  Several of those translations appeared in the FSG Book of 20th Century Italian Poetry (2012).   She lives in Maryland by the Chesapeake Bay. 

David Kinloch was born in Glasgow in 1959 and educated at Glasgow and Oxford Universities. For many years a teacher of French language and literature, he now teaches creative writing and Scottish literature in the English Studies Department of the University of Strathclyde. His publications include five books of poetry, Dustie-Fute (Vennel Press, 1992), Paris-Forfar (Polygon, 1994), Un Tour d’Ecosse (Carcanet, 2001) and In My Father’s House (Carcanet, 2005), and Finger of a Frenchman (Carcanet, 2011).  A recipient of the 2004 Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Award, he has held a Scottish Arts Council Writer’s Bursary.