KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present…
Daisy Fried + Idra Novey
Monday, March 25th, 2013
Doors open at 7:00 pm
Reading starts at 7:30pm
Admission is FREE
85 East 4th Street * New York, NY
Hosted by John Deming and Matthew Yeager
Series founded in 1997 by David Lehman and Star Black
Daisy Fried is the author of three books of poetry,
Women’s Poetry: Poems and Advice (2013)
, My Brother Is Getting Arrested Again (2006)
, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and
She Didn’t Mean to Do It (2000), winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. She has received Guggenheim, Hodder, and Pew Fellowships, a Pushcart Prize, and the Cohen Award from Ploughshares. Fried reviews poetry books for the
New York Times, Poetry, and the
Threepenny Review and was awarded Poetry magazine’s Editor’s Prize. She has taught creative writing at Bryn Mawr College and in Warren Wilson College’s low-residency MFA program. Fried lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Idra Novey is the author of
Exit, Civilian, selected for the 2011 National Poetry Series by Patricia Smith, and
The Next Country. Her poems have been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, in Poetry Magazine, Slate, and the Hairpin. Her most recent translation is Clarice Lispector’s novel
The Passion According to G.H. (New Directions, 2012). She teaches at NYU and in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University.
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Upcoming, Spring 2013
Apr 1 Adam Fitzgerald + Jackie Clark
Apr 8 Major Jackson + Heather Christle
Apr 15 Lynn Melnick + Yona Harvey
Apr 22 Sharon Olds + Michael Dickman
Apr 29 Michael Klein + Will Schutt
May 6 Glyn Maxwell + Louis Jenkins
May 13 TBA + TBA
May 20 Eileen Myles + Rebecca Wolff + Season Finale Party