Friday, November 9, 2007

Kevin Prufer reads

Dear all,

Please come along to the famous KGB Bar on Monday night to see Four Way poet Kevin Prufer read. National Anthem will be released in February 2008.

Date: Monday, November 19th
Time: 7pm
Place: KGB, 85 East 4th Street, NYC


The poets:

Wayne Miller is the author of Only the Senses Sleep
(New Issues, 2006), translator of I Don't Believe in
Ghosts (BOA, 2007), by Albanian poet Moikom Zeqo, and
co-editor, with Kevin Prufer, of New European Poets
(Graywolf,2008). He has received the Lucille Medwick
Award, the George Bogin Award, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship
and the Bess Hokin Prize. He lives in Kansas City and
co-edits Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing.

Kevin Prufer is the author, most recently, of National
Anthem (Four Way, 2008), Fallen From a Chariot
(Carnegie Mellon, 2005), and The Finger Bone (Carnegie
Mellon, 2002). With Wayne Miller, he is Editor of
Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing and General Editor
of New European Poets (Graywolf, 2008). With Joy Katz
he has recently edited Dark Horses: Poets on
Overlooked Poems (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2007). The
recipient of three Pushcart prizes, he lives in rural
Missouri.

Joy Katz is the author of two books of poems, Fabulae
and The Garden Room, the latter out recently from
Tupelo Press, and also is the co-editor (with Kevin
Prufer) of the anthology Dark Horses: Poets on
Overlooked Poems and a senior editor at Pleiades. She
was recently writer-in-residence at The University of
Misosuri and she teaches poetry workshops at The New
School.