Anna Moschovakis and Susan Briante at ZINC Bar
3 February, 5:30pm, ZINC Bar, 82 West 3rd Street. $5 or Best Offer.
Curated by the Lungfull! Magazine Rapid Editorial Action Go-Force: Drew Boston, Anahit Gulian, Annaliese Downey, Brendan Lorber, Edmund Berrigan, Jessica Fiorini, Kara Fowler, Mariana Ruiz, Mike Smith, Molly Dorozenski, Tracey McTague. ZINC is 5:30pm every Sunday. ZINC is at 82 West 3rd Street between Sullivan & Thompson in New York City's Greenwich Village. ZINC is $5, or best offer, which goes to the readers so they can buy you a drink afterwards. Copies of Lungfull! magazine will also be on-site. Buy them all and burn them outside the bar as a warning to all would-be poets & publishers. Lungfull! is made possible in part by a generous grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. Oh we hope to see you, a beacon in the still too short days. Drop a comment below if you have concerns or delightednesses. lungfull.org/zinc for videos, photos & all the deets.
Hatchet Job
5 February, 7pm, Public Assembly,70 North 6th St, Brooklyn, Free.
Hatchet Job is a monthly series in which poets of all persuasions don’t wanna work, they just wanna bang on the poems all day. It costs zero dollars. In this way it doesn’t resemble the booze. Confidantes, join us for the first reading of Hatchet Job’s second year. Simone Kearney is a poet and visual artist. Her poetry has appeared in Boston Review, Bridge Journal, Ragazine, Post Road Magazine, Maggy, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, “In Threes,” is forthcoming with MinuteBooks Press. She was a recipient of the Amy Awards in 2010. DJ Dolack is the author of No Ser No, a chapbook from Greying Ghost Press, and Whittling a New Face in the Dark, forthcoming from Black Ocean. His poems have appeared in DIAGRAM, Diode, Sink Review, and elsewhere. Lynn Melnick is the author of If I Should Say I Have Hope. Her poetry has appeared in Antioch Review, BOMB, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Guernica, Gulf Coast, jubilat, Narrative, Paris Review, Poetry Daily, A Public Space, and elsewhere. Deborah Landau is the author of The Last Usable Hour and Orchidelirium, which won the Anhinga Prize for Poetry. Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in Grand Street, The Paris Review, Tin House, The Antioch Review, The Kenyon Review, TriQuarterly, The Best American Erotic Poems, The Wall Street Journal, and The Harvard Review.
THE NEW SALON: Edward Hirsch, with Charif Shanahan
7 February, 7pm, 58 West 10th Street, Free.
Edward Hirsch has published seven books of poems: For the Sleepwalkers (1981), Wild Gratitude (1986), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Night Parade (1989), Earthly Measures (1994), On Love (1998), Lay Back the Darkness (2003), and Special Orders (2008). He has also written four books of prose: the bestseller How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry (1999), Responsive Reading (1999), The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration (2002), and Poet's Choice (2006). Since 2003, he has served as the fourth President of the Guggenheim Foundation. Co-sponsored by the NYU Creative Writing Program.
NYU Emerging Writers at KGB Bar7 February, 7pm, 58 West 10th Street, Free.
Edward Hirsch has published seven books of poems: For the Sleepwalkers (1981), Wild Gratitude (1986), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Night Parade (1989), Earthly Measures (1994), On Love (1998), Lay Back the Darkness (2003), and Special Orders (2008). He has also written four books of prose: the bestseller How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry (1999), Responsive Reading (1999), The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration (2002), and Poet's Choice (2006). Since 2003, he has served as the fourth President of the Guggenheim Foundation. Co-sponsored by the NYU Creative Writing Program.
8 February, 7pm, KGB Bar, 85 E 4th St, Free.
This reading series pair emerging writers from the NYU graduate program in creative writing with established authors in the field. This week's reading will feature SRIKANTH REDDY, MATT BROADDUS, AMANDA CALDERON, SIDIK FOFANA, and ANNA KOVATCHEVA. Srikanth Reddy is a poet and literary scholar working at the intersection of
critical and creative practice in the humanities. Reddy is the author of
three books of poetry: Facts for Visitors (University of California
Press, 2004); Voyager (University of California Press, 2011); and
Conversities, with Daniel Beachy-Quick (1913 Press, 2012), as well as
the chapbook Readings in World Literature (chapbook, Omnidawn Books,
2011) and the academic monograph Changing Subjects: Digressions in
Twentieth-Century American Poetry
(Oxford University Press, 2012). Reddy holds a PhD from Harvard
University and an MFA from the University of Iowa. He is assistant
professor of English at the University of Chicago, where he has worked
since 2003.
A SEASON IN POETRY: Sarah Arvio, Peter Covino, and Adam Kirsch
9 February, 3pm, New York Botanical Garden, Free with All Garden Pass
To welcome the arrival of spring, poets will read classic favorites as well as their own work at the largest botanical garden in the United States. Co-sponsored by The New York Botanical Garden. For directions see www.nybg.org
A SEASON IN POETRY: Sarah Arvio, Peter Covino, and Adam Kirsch
9 February, 3pm, New York Botanical Garden, Free with All Garden Pass
To welcome the arrival of spring, poets will read classic favorites as well as their own work at the largest botanical garden in the United States. Co-sponsored by The New York Botanical Garden. For directions see www.nybg.org
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