KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present…
Ada Limon & Jason Schneiderman
Monday, March 16, 2015
Hosted by John Deming and Matthew Yeager
Series founded in 1997 by David Lehman and Star Black
Doors open at 7:00 pm
Reading starts at 7:30pm
Admission is FREE
www.KgbBar.com
85 East 4th Street * New York, NY
Ada Limon is the author of Lucky Wreck (2006), This Big Fake World (2006), and Sharks in the Rivers (2010). She earned an MFA from New York University, and is the recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including The New Yorker, The Harvard Review, Pleiades, and Barrow Street. Limón splits her time between Kentucky, California, and New York.
Jason Schneiderman is the author of Sublimation Point, winner of the Richard Snyder Prize from Ashland Poetry Press, and Striking Surface, A Stahlecker Selection from Four Way Books. His poetry and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, includingAmerican Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry, Poetry London, Grand Street, The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, Story Quarterly, and Tin House. Jason has received fellowships from Yaddo, The Fine Arts Work Center, and The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. He was the recipient of the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America in 2004, and a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award in 2011. He is Poetry Editor of the Bellevue Literary Review, and Associate Editor at Painted Bride Quarterly. Jason Schneiderman is an Assistant Professor at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, part of the City University of New York.
Upcoming Spring 2015:
Mar 23 Dark
Mar 30 Michael Morse + Sarah Rose Nordgren
Apr 6 Jennifer MacKenzie + Chris Hosea
Apr 13 3rd Annual Post-AWP Open Mic Competition
Apr 20 Kathleen Ossip + Spencer Short
Apr 27 Noah Eli Gordon + Kelly Forsythe
May 4 Norman Minnick + Chris Jansen
May 11 Cate Marvin + Jericho Brown May 18 Matthew Rohrer + Geoffrey Nutter + Randall Potts