Save the Date: “Best American Poetry 2016” Launch Reading: Sept 22 at the New School in NYC

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Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 7:00 pm
to 9:00 pm

The Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall 66 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011

For the fifteenth consecutive year, the New School  Writing Program sponsors the launch reading for the latest edition in the celebrated Best American Poetry series.

David Lehman, poetry coordinator for the Creative Writing Program and series editor, will moderate the event. He will be joined by contributors to the anthology as well as Edward Hirsch, guest editor of the 2016 volume. 

With poets Christopher BakkenCatherine Barnett, Jill Bialosky, Paula BohinceMichelle Boisseau, Marianne Boruch, Lynn Emanuel, Martín Espada, Charles Fort,  Emily Fragos, Juliana Gray, Linda Gregerson, Mark Halliday, Jeffrey Harrison, Cynthia Hogue, Garrett Hongo, Erin Hoover, Richard Howard, T. R. Hummer, Major Jackson, Lawrence Joseph, Julie Kane, John Koethe, Loretta Collins Klobah, Keetje Kuipers, Deborah Landau, Robin Coste Lewis, Paul Mariani,, Debra Marquart, Hai-Dan Phan, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Stanley Plumly, James RichardsonPatrick Rosal, Brenda ShaughnessyAnya Silver, Taije Silverman,Tom Sleigh, A. E. Stallings,Susan Stewart, Nomi Stone, Adrienne Su, Lee Upton, Eleanor Wilner . . .

It will be historic.

Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program.