[New-Poetry] Poetry Reading at KGB Tomorrow Night!

[amy king]

TOMORROW NIGHT!
 
Poetry Reading/ Book Release/ Leukemia Fundraiser
September 5th
7pm at KGB Bar (85 E. 4th St., New York, NY 10003)
 
Readers will be:
David Lehman
Meghan Punschke
Amy King
Ana Božičević

 
With Raffles for Baskets of Books/ Goodies, Book Sales, Special gifts for $20+ Donors, and a GRAND PRIZE WINNER!!!
Free to get in - $5 Raffle tix - Drinks at the bar
 
 
This
Book Release Party for Meghan Punschke's new collection of poetry,
Stratification, will double as a fundraising event for the Leukemia
& Lymphoma Society (LLS). Other readers that night will include,
David Lehman, Amy King, and Ana Božičević.There will be a raffle for
prizes, which will include poetry books, anthologies and other poetry
related items from several small presses including BlazeVOX Books, No
Tell Books, Coconut Books, Goss 183, Ahsahta Press, Octopus Books,
Black Ocean Books 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. Prizes
total in excess of $2000, and each raffle ticket will be sold for $5
with all of the proceeds going directly to LLS. Some of the evening's
book sales to the charity, and there will be special prizes for those
who donate more than $20.

 
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. 

 
 
Pass it along!

-- 
Best Regards, 
Meghan Punschke
WoM Curator

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The
WoM Curator will be running in the Nike Women's Marathon on Oct.19th as
a team member of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Support her efforts
today by visiting:


http://pages.teamintraining.org/nyc/nikesf08/mpunschke

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