Tonight at KGB: Will Schutt + Michael Klein

Hosted by John Deming and Matthew Yeager

Will Schutt‘s first manuscript, Westerly, was chosen by Carl Phillips for the 2012 Yale Younger Prize.  The book is forthcoming in April, 2013 from Yale University Press.  Schutt’s poems and translations have appeared in Agni, FIELD, Harvard Review, The Southern Review, and elsewhere.  A graduate of Oberlin College and Hollins University, he lives with his wife in Wainscott, New York.

 

Michael Klein‘s books of poetry include then, we were still living, Track Conditions, The End of Being Known, and 1990, which tied with James Schuyler for the 1993 Lambda Literary Award.  He has also edited Poets for Life: 76 Poets Respond to AIDS, winner of the Lambda Book Award), Things Shaped in Passing, and In the Company of My Solitude. His new book of poems, The Talking Day, is forthcoming from Sibling Rivalry Press in 2013. He teaches in the MFA Program at Goddard College in Port Townsend, Washington and is on the faculty of the summer program at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown