[New-Poetry] Stain of Poetry: A Reading Series -- January's Stars

[amy king]

COMING UP - Stain of Poetry:  A Reading Series


January 30 @ 7 p.m. - Stain Bar - Williamsburg, Brooklyn

*Bill Berkson, Cindy Cruz, Aaron Fagan, Jennifer Fortin, Jean-Paul Pecqueur and Bill Rasmovicz*

* Hosted by Amy King and Ana Bozicevic
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Bill Berkson was born
in New York in 1939. A poet, critic, teacher, and sometime curator, he
moved to Northern California in 1970 and during the next decade edited
a series of little magazines and books under the Big Sky imprint. From
1984 to 2008 he was a professor of Liberal Arts at the San Francisco
Art Institute. He is a corresponding editor for Art in America and has contributed reviews and essays to such other journals as Aperture, Artforum, Works on Paper and Modern Painters. His recent books of poetry include Gloria (in a deluxe limited edition with etchings by Alex Katz), Our Friends Will Pass Among You Silently, and Goods and Services. Other books include  a collection of his criticism, The Sweet Singer of Modernism & Other Art Writings: 1985-2003; Sudden Address: Selected lectures 1981-2006; an epistolary collaboration with Bernadette Mayer entitled What’s Your Idea of a Good Time?: Interviews & Letters 1977-1985. His Portrait and Dream: New & Selected Poems
will appear form Coffee House Press in 2009. Berkson was the 2006
Distinguished Mellon Fellow at the Skowhegan School of Painting and
Sculpture and received the 2008 Goldie for Literature from the San
Francisco Bay Guardian. He now lives in New York and San Francisco.

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Cynthia Cruz is the author of RUIN, published by Alice James Books in 2006. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in the American Poetry Review, Paris Review, Boston Review, AGNI, FIELD,
and others and are anthologized in “The Iowa Anthology of New American
Poetries.” She has received fellowships to YADDO and the MacDowell
Colony. She lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and teaches at Sarah Lawrence
College.

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Aaron Fagan was born in Rochester, New York, in 1973. His poems have appeared in numerous magazines including The American Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, and The Yale Review. He is the author of Garage (Salt
Publishing, 2007), a debut collection which the critic Harold Bloom
described as “vivid and aesthetically disturbing work. His promise is
considerable because his originality should prove to be decisive.” A
former Assistant Editor for Poetry, he is now a Copy Editor for Scientific American in New York City and lives in the Bronx.

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Jennifer H. Fortin
lives in Brooklyn. She works as an Assistant. In May 2008, she obtained
an M.F.A. in Poetry from The New School. Her work has appeared in TYPO, GlitterPony, Left Facing Bird, The Goucher Quarterly, AbroadView magazine and Ducts; it is forthcoming in Court Green, Action, Yes and Copper Nickel.
She was a Finalist for the Poetry Foundation’s 2008 Ruth Lilly
Fellowship and the recipient of an Honorable Mention in the 2008 Poets
& Writers-sponsored Amy Awards. Fortin is happy to be able to say
she is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Bulgaria 2004-2006).

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Jean-Paul Pecqueur’s first book, The Case Against Happiness, was published by Alice James Books in 2006.  New poems have recently appeared in The Hat, Cranky, and Gulf Coast.  Jean-Paul currently lives in Brooklyn, teaching writing at the Pratt Institute.

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 Bill Rasmovicz has
served as a literary excursion leader and workshop co-leader throughout
Italy, Croatia, Slovenia, Switzerland and Wales. His work has appeared
in Hotel Amerika, Nimrod, Third Coast and other magazines.
His first book, “The World in Place of Itself” was published in 2007 by
Alice James Books and was also the 2008 recipient of the New England
Poetry Club’s Sheila Margaret Motton Prize.
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stain

766 grand street

brooklyn, ny 11211

(L train to Grand Street,

1 block west)

718/387-7840

open daily @ 5 p.m.

http://stainofpoetry.wordpress.com/


Hope to see you there!

Amy and Ana

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