Date: 2012-03-11
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery Street
New York City, NY 10012

Readers:

David Yezzi’s latest book of poems is Azores, a Slate magazine best book of the year. His work has appeared in The Best American Poetry (2006, 2012), The Pushcart Prize Anthology, Poetry Speaks Who I Am, edited by Elise Paschen, and Bright Wings, edited by Billy Collins. He is editor of The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets and executive editor of The New Criterion. He is currently writing a biography of the poet Anthony Hecht for St. Martin’s Press.

Andrea Scarpino is the author of The Grove Behind (Finishing Line Press, 2009). She has taught at California State University Dominguez Hills, Ohio State University, and the Institute for Reading Development, and has also taught ESL in France. She now works in Union Institute and University’s Cohort Ph.D. program in Interdisciplinary Studies, where she is the Creative Dissertation Coordinator. She is a weekly contributor to the blog “Planet of the Blind” and is widely published in print and online journals. Her interests include sijo, an ancient Korean poetic form, elegy, the intersections of art and politics, and the politics of clean water. She is currently at work on her next collection, to be released by Red Hen Press.

Brynn Saito was born in the Central Valley of California to a Korean American mother and a Japanese American father. Her poetry has been anthologized in Helen Vendler’s Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology, 3rd edition and Ishmael Reed’s From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002. Her work has also appeared or is forthcoming in Ninth Letter, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Third Coast, Pleiades, and Drunken Boat, among other journals. Brynn holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MA in religious studies from New York University. She is the 2011 winner of Red Hen’s Benjamin Saltman Award, judged by David Mason. Her collection of poetry, Bright Power, Dark Peace, will be released by Red Hen in 2013.

George Green has an MFA in poetry from the New School and currently teaches at Lehman College, CUNY, in the Bronx. His poems have appeared in the anthologies Poetry 180, 180 More, and The Best American Poetry 2005 and 2008. His book Lord Byron’s Foot, winner of the New Criterion Poetry Prize, is forthcoming this fall from St. Augustine’s Press.

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