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Tonight at KGB: Major Jackson + Heather Christle

 
KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present…
 
Heather Christle + Major Jackson
 
Monday, April 8th, 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 Star Black and David Lehman
 
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Major Jackson‘s books of poems are Holding Company (2010, Norton) and Hoops (2006, Norton), both finalists for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature-Poetry, and Leaving Saturn (2002, University of Georgia Press), which was awarded the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. He is a recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress.  Jackson is the Richard Dennis Green and Gold Professor at University of Vermont and a core faculty member of the Bennington Writing Seminars.
 
 
Christle-WEBHeather Christle is the author of What Is Amazing (Wesleyan University Press, 2012), The Difficult Farm (Octopus Books, 2009), and The Trees The Trees (Octopus Books, 2011), which won the 2012 Believer Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared in publications including Boston Review, Gulf Coast, The New Yorker, and The Best American Poetry. She teaches poetry at Sarah Lawrence College, and has also taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Emory University, where she was the 2009-2011 Poetry Writing Fellow. She is the Web Editor for jubilat, the coordinator of the Royal Society of Hadley for Improving Natural Knowledge at Flying Object, and frequently a writer in residence at the Juniper Summer Writing Institute. A native of Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, she lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
 
 
 
Remaining Spring 2013 Schedule:
 
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  Sarah Arvio + David Kinloch 
May 20  Eileen Myles + Rebecca Wolff + Season Finale Party