KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present…
Matthea Harvey + Brett Fletcher Lauer
Monday, October 13th, 2014
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
Matthea Harvey is the author of five books of poetry–If the Tabloids are True What Are You? Of Lamb (an illustrated erasure with images by Amy Jean Porter), Modern Life (a finalist for the National Book Critics Cirlcle Award and a New York Times Notable Book), Sad Little Breathing Machine and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form. She has also published two children’s books, Cecil the Pet Glacier, illustrated by Giselle Potter and The Little General and the Giant Snowflake, illustrated by Elizabeth Zechel. She teaches poetry at Sarah Lawrence and lives in Brooklyn.
Brett Fletcher Lauer is the deputy director of the Poetry Society of America and the poetry editor at A Public Space. He is the author of A Hotel in Belgium (Four Way Books, 2014), the co-editor of Isn’t It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets (Wave, 2004) and the forthcoming Please Excuse this Poem (Viking, 2014) co-edited with Lynn Melnick.
Upcoming, Fall 2014
Oct 20 Star Black + James Richardson
Oct 27 David Lehman + Dara Wier
Nov 3 William Wenthe + Steven Karl + Lisa Jarnot
Nov 10 An Evening of Agriculture Reader's Poets:
Jeremy Schmall + Justin Taylor + More
Nov 17 Annual National Book Award Judges Reading
Nov 24 Timothy Liu + Justin Marks
Dec 1 Patricia Spears Jones + Shanna Compton
Dec 8 Mark Doty + Vijay Seshadri + Season Finale Party!
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