[New-Poetry] Reminder Tonight, Friday - Berkson, Cruz, Fagan, Fortin, Pecqueur, Rasmovicz

[amy king]

January 30th @ 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. 

   

   

Hope to see you there! 

   

Amy and Ana 

http://stainofpoetry.wordpress.com/ 

  


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