Tonight at KGB: David Lehman + Dara Wier

KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present…

David Lehman + Dara Wier

Monday, October 27th, 2014

Hosted by John Deming and Matthew Yeager

Series founded in 1997 by Star Black + David Lehman

Doors open at 7:00 pm

Reading starts at 7:30pm

Admission is FREE

www.KgbBar.com

85 East 4th Street * New York, NY

 

David Lehman is the author of many collections of poems, including New and Selected Poems (Scribner, 2013),Yeshiva Boys (Scriber, 2011), When a Woman Loves a Man (Scribner, 2005), Jim and Dave Defeat the Masked Man(with James Cummins, Soft Skull Press, 2005), and The Evening Sun (2002).   Among his books of non-fiction are A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs (Shocken Books, 2009) and The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets (Doubleday, 1998), which was named a "Book to Remember 1999" by the New York Public Library.  He edited The Oxford Book of American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2006), and is the series editor of The Best American Poetry.  He is on the core faculty of the graduate writing programs at the New School and New York University. He lives in New York City and Ithaca, NY.

 

Dara Wier's most recent book is You Good Thing from Wave Books, 2013, a Believer's readers' choice for 2014.  Her previous books include Reverse Rapture (Poetry Book of the Year, American Poetry Center, San Francisco St. University, 2009), Remnants of Hannah, Voyages in English, and Blue for the Plough.  She writes a sporadic blog for Flying Object, flying-object.org/, a community arts space and project in Hadley, Massachusetts, and she leads workshops and seminars for the University of Massachusetts Amherst MFA for Poets and Writers.  

 

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