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 Boulevard, BOMB,
Verse, American Letters & Commentary, Pleiades, POOL, 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.
