KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present…
Craig Morgan Teicher + Alex Dimitrov
Monday, Nov. 11, 2013
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
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Craig Morgan Teicher is a poet, critic, and freelance writer. His latest book, To Keep Love Blurry: Poems (BOA, 2012). His first book of poems, Brenda Is In The Room And Other Poems, was chosen by Paul Hoover as winner of the 2007 Colorado Prize for Poetry. His collection of short stories and fables, Cradle Book, was published in spring 2010 by BOA. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, A Public Space, Jubilat, Seneca Review, Forklift Ohio, Octopus, La Petit Zine, Fairy Tale Review, Verse, and Colorado Review, as well as The Best American Poetry 2009. His reviews of poetry and fiction, and profiles of poets, appear widely in places like NPR.org, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Poets & Writers, Poets.org, Time Out New York, Boston Review and Bookforum. He is Director of Digital Operations and Poetry Reviews Editor of Publishers Weekly, a poetry editor of The Literary Review, a contributing editor of Pleiades, and a Vice President of the National Book Critics Circle. He also teaches at The New School and New York University and lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife and children.
Alex Dimitrov's first full-length book of poems, Begging for It, was published by Four Way Books in 2013. His poems have been published in The American Poetry Review, which awarded him the 2011 Stanley Kunitz Prize, The Yale Review, The Kenyon Review, Slate, Tin House, Boston Review. Poetry Daily, and other publications. In June 2012 Dimitrov released the e-chapbook American Boys, published by Floating Wolf Quarterly. American Boys included poems, childhood photographs, and digital ephemera such as screencaps of text messages and other images from modern methods of communication and connection. Currently, Dimitrov is the Content Editor at the Academy of American Poets, teaches creative writing at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, and frequently writes for Poets & Writers magazine. Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, raised in Detroit, Michigan, he lives in Manhattan's Lower East Side.
Upcoming, Fall 2013
Nov 18 Joshua Beckman + Geoffrey G. O'Brien
Nov 25 Sophie Cabot Black + Lisa Olstein
Dec 2 David Lehman + Kim Addonizio