Monday, August 15, 2016

READING FEATURING MARSH HAWK PRESS' NEW BOOKS!

To Celebrate the Beginning of the Poetry Season and
Three New Marsh Hawk Books — Patricia Carlin’s Second Nature,
Ed Foster’s Sowing the Wind, and Burt Kimmelman’s Abandoned Angel

A Reading by the Authors

Thursday, September 8, 6PM
Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia Street
New York City


About the authors:

Patricia Carlin’s previous books include Quantum Jitters and Original Green (poems), and Shakespeare’s Mortal Men (prose).  She has published widely in journals and anthologies such as BoulevardBOMB, VerseAmerican Letters & Commentary, PleiadesPOOL, The Literary Review, The Manhattan Review, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency; and she has received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony and VCCA.  She teaches literature and poetry writing at The New School, and she co-edits the poetry journal Barrow Street.

Ed Foster has published more than forty books, including volumes of literary criticism, cultural history, and anthologies His recent volumes of poetry, prior to Sowing the Wind (2016), include What He Ought to Know: New and Selected Poems (2006), The Beginning of Sorrows (2009), and Dire Straits (2012). Celebrated as “one of contemporary poetry’s unique voices,” he is the founding editor of Talisman House, Publishers and Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. The recipient of numerous grants and awards, he lives now on a hilltop near the Massachusetts/Vermont border overlooking the Connecticut River Valley. Examples of his poetry and photographs can be accessed at EdFosterPoet.com.


Burt Kimmelman has published sixteen books of poetry and criticism, and over a hundred articles on literature, art, and some memoir. He has been featured on National Public Radio, his poems often anthologized, and has been the subject of a number of interviews (available in print or online). His new collection, Abandoned Angel (Marsh Hawk Press), will appear this October; his eighth collection, Gradually the World: New and Selected Poems (BlazeVOX [books]), was published in 2013. He teaches literary and cultural studies at NJIT, and lives in Maplewood, NJ with his wife, the writer Diane Simmons. More about him and samples of his work can be found at BurtKimmelman.com.

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