[New-Poetry] Poetry Reading & Fundraiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society

[amy king]

Poetry Reading & Fundraiser for the Leukemia and
Lymphoma Society
 

  
 

Friday, September 5, 2008 @ 
7:00pm
 

KGB Bar
 

 85 East 4th
  Street , NYC 10003
 

  
 

David Lehman is a poet, writer, and editor. His seven books
of poetry include When a Woman Loves a Man (2005). In 1996 he began writing a
poem a day as an experiment. The practice continued for five years, and two
books resulted: The Daily Mirror (2000) and The Evening Sun (2002), both from
Scribner. Lehman’s prose books include The Perfect Murder and Signs of the
Times. He is the series editor of The Best American Poetry, which he launched
in 1988. He has also edited the latest edition of The Oxford Book of American
Poetry (2006), The Best American Erotic Poems (2008), and Great American Prose
Poems (2003), among other books. He heads the poetry division of the New School ’s
graduate writing program, in which he has taught since the program’s inception
in 1996.
 

  
 

Meghan Punschke is the author of Stratification (BlazeVOX
Books, 2008). She resides in New York City , and
has an MFA in Poetry from the New 
 School . She is the
curator and host of Word of Mouth, a reading series dedicated to poets and
fiction writers. She is also the Managing Editor for the literary journal
Oranges & Sardines. Her poetry was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2007.
Please visit www.megpunschke.com for more info.
 

  
 

Amy King is the author of I’m the Man Who Loves You and
Antidotes for an Alibi, both from Blazevox Books, and most recently, Kiss Me
With the Mouth of Your Country (Dusie Press). She is the moderator for the
Poetics List and the Women’s Poetry Listserv, and teaches English and Creative
Writing at Nassau 
 Community College . She is
currently editing an anthology, The Urban Poetic, forthcoming from Factory School . Please visit www.amyking.org for
more.
 

  
 

Ana Božičević emigrated to NYC from Croatia in
1997. She’s the author of chapbooks Document (Octopus Books, 2007) and Morning
News (Kitchen Press, 2006). Look for her recent work in Denver Quarterly, Hotel
Amerika, Bat City Review, absent, typo, fou and elsewhere. With Amy King, she
is currently editing an anthology, The Urban Poetic ( Factory School ,
forthcoming). Ana works at The Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center , CUNY.
 

  
 

There will be a raffle for prizes, which will include books,
anthologies and other poetry related goodies from several small presses
including BlazeVOX Books, No Tell Books, Coconut Books, Goss 183, Ahsahta Press
and Lame House. The Grand Prize winner will be awarded books from many of the
above, plus the 30 x 40 acrylic on canvas painting that appears on the cover of
Stratification. Each raffle ticket will be $5 with all of the proceeds going
directly to LLS for cancer research and patient care. Half of book sales will
go to the charity as well.
 

  
 

http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-09-05_poetry_reading_.html





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Movies With Poems

http://amyking.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/movies-with-poetry/



Poems To Do

http://amyking.wordpress.com/2008/06/12/poetry-exercises-wanted/


      
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