KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present…
Glyn Maxwell + Louis Jenkins
Monday, May 6, 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
Glyn Maxwell is a British poet, playwright, and librettist. Recent collections of poetry include
The Nerve (2002), winner of the Geoffrey Haber Memorial Prize,
The Sugar Mile (2005) and
Hide Now (2008), which was shortlisted for both the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2008 and the Forward Prize in 2009. His three earliest collections of poetry are collected as
The Boys at Twilight: Poems 1990-1995 (2000). Maxwell was born and raised in Welwyn Garden City, in Hertfordshire. Over fifteen of his plays have been produced in both America and the UK, and he’s taught extensively on both sides of the pond. He lives in London and lectures currently at the University of Essex.
Louis Jenkins is the author of
Before You Know It: Prose Poems 1970-2005. Other books include
An Almost Human Gesture (Eighties Press and Ally Press, 1987),
All Tangled Up With the Living (Nineties Press, 1991),
Nice Fish: New and Selected Prose Poems (Holy Cow! Press, 1995), winner of the Minnesota Book Award,
Just Above Water (Holy Cow! Press, 1997) and
The Winter Road (Holy Cow! Press, 2000). One of the American masters of the prose poem, his work has been included in
Great American Prose Poems,
The Best American Poetry 1999, and a variety of journals and magazines. He lives in Duluth, Minnesota.
Upcoming, Spring 2013
May 13 Sarah Arvio + David Kinloch
May 20 Eileen Myles + Rebecca Wolff + Season Finale Party