Vincent Katz, Guest Author September 14-18

Vincent Katz with Alain Kirili's Sculpture_© Ariane Lopez-Huici__0404

Vincent Katz with Alain Kirili's Sculpture (c) Ariane Lopez-Huici

This week we welcome Vincent Katz as our guest author. Vincent is the author of twelve books of poetry, including Swimming Home (Nightboat, 2015). He edited and wrote the introduction to Poems to Work On: The Collected Poems of Jim Dine (Cuneiform, 2015). Katz is the editor of Black Mountain College: Experiment in Art (MIT, 2002; reprinted 2013) and the author of The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius (Princeton, 2004), winner of the 2005 National Translation Award from the American Literary Translators Association. He lives in New York City, where he curates Readings in Contemporary Poetry at Dia Art Foundation. You can follow him on twitter @SextusVKatz.  Find out more about Vincent Katz at his website here

Welcome, Vincent.

In other news . . . 

David Lehman and Sherman Alexie to host The Best American Poetry 2015 Launch Reading at The New School

Thursday, September 24, 2015 at 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm 
The Auditorium at 66 West 12th Street, 
Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall
66 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011

— sdh