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THIS WEDNESDAY: AMY KING, RICHARD SIME & L.B. THOMPSON
read this Wednesday, April 22 / 7pm / free at:
*BARRETTE / 601 Vanderbilt Ave. @ Bergen St. / Brooklyn, NY
wheelchair accessible / drink specials
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AMY KING is the author of I’m the Man Who Loves You and Antidotes for an Alibi, and forthcoming, Slaves to do These Things (Blazevox Books). She teaches English and Creative Writing at Nassau Community College, moderates the Poetics and Women’s Poetry listserves, and co-curates The Stain of Poetry: A Reading Series (http://stainofpoetry.wordpress.com/). Please visit her at http://amyking.org for more.
RICHARD SIME grew up in rural North Dakota, graduated from college in Minnesota, moved to New York City to attend graduate school at NYU, drifted into publishing, and eventually returned to school at Sarah Lawrence College, where he earned an MFA in fiction writing and where a course on prosody planted a seed. He began to write poetry in workshops at the New School in New York City and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, where he returns each summer. His work has appeared in Barrow Street, Provincetown Arts, Radical Faerie Digest, and Passager.
L.B. THOMPSON received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and her M.F.A. in Poetry from New York University. Her poetry has been published in journals including Fence, Pool, Lyric, The Women’s Review of Books and The New Yorker. She received an award for emerging women writers from the Rona Jaffe Foundation in 2002, and won the Center for Book Arts’ annual chapbook competition in 2003. L.B. teaches English to college freshmen, works as a free-lance copyeditor, and lives on the North Fork of Long Island.
Barrette
601 Vanderbilt Ave (at Bergen St, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn) — 718-230-5170
Subway: B, Q to Seventh Ave ; 2, 3 to Grand Army Plaza
THIS FRIDAY:
The Stain of Poetry: A Reading Series presents
April 24th @ 7 PM - Stain Bar - Williamsburg , Brooklyn
Jennifer Burch, Heather Green, Chris Hosea, Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Daniel Lin, Barry Schwabsky
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Jennifer Burch holds a B.A. in Fine Art from Amherst College and an M.A. in Literature from the University of Kent in Canterbury , England . Her first book, No Matter, was released by The Winged Way (September 2008). Jennifer has published work in Article, Free Verse, Guernica , Left Facing Bird, Sal Mimeo, and Verse, and is included in Green Integer’s forthcoming anthology, The Gertrude Stein Awards. Jennifer lives in Brooklyn , New York , where she writes and teaches yoga.
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Heather Green’s work has appeared in Barrow Street , DIAGRAM, The Hat, Lungfull!, Pebble Lake Review, Tarpaulin Sky, and other journals. She’s the author of the chapbook The Match Array (Dancing Girl Press, 2008) and lives in Boston .
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Chris Hosea’s poems appear in VOLT, Swerve, Denver Quarterly, Article, Harvard Review, Iowa Review, and The Literary Review. With Cecily Iddings, he edits The Blue Letter, a free direct-mail poetry newsletter. He works at the Marymount School and lives in Brooklyn .
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Sueyeun Juliette Lee edits Corollary Press, a chapbook series devoted to new work by writers of color. Recent work has appeared in Effing, One Less, and online at critiphoria.org. Her chapbooks include Mental Commitment Robots (yo yo labs), Perfect Villagers (Octopus Books) and Trespass Slightly In (Coconut). Her first full-length collection, That Gorgeous Feeling, is out from Coconut Books. She currently lives in Philadelphia .
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Daniel Lin has a chapbook, TINDER, from Nightboat Books (2004), and has recently published poems in Unsplendid and The Jewish Quarterly. He was a N.Y. Times Fellow at NYU and a Tennessee Williams Scholar at Sewanee Writers’ Conference.
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Barry Schwabsky is an American poet and art critic living in London . His new collection of poems, Book Left Open in the Rain, is published imminently by Black Square Editions and is available from Small press Distribution. He writes reguarly for The Nation and Artforum (where he also co-edits the international reviews section), among others. He is the author of Opera: Poems 1981-2002 (Meritage Press) and The Widening Circle: Consequences of Modernism in Contemporary Art (Cambridge University Press) as well as several chapbooks of poetry and contributions to dozens of books and exhibition catalogues on contemporary and modern art.
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766 grand street
brooklyn, ny 11211
(L train to Grand Street , 1 block west)
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