RHP in New York
Red Hen Press presents four annual reading series in New York City to parallel its own four in Los Angeles. The press hosts events at Cornelia St. Café, KGB Bar, Bowery Poetry Club, and Poets House, bridging the gap between the nation’s coasts.
Upcoming Events
Cornelia Street Café
March 8, 2012
6 PM
Featuring
Michael Quadland graduated from Dartmouth College and received a Master of Public Health degree from Yale University and a PhD in psychology from New York University. In addition to his private psychotherapy practice, Quadland taught human sexuality at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine and consulted with many organizations about AIDS prevention and the emotional-psychological aspects of the disease. He has published many articles in professional journals on AIDS and sexuality. He left AIDS work in 1995, reduced the size of his psychotherapy practice, and turned to writing fiction. His first novel, That Was Then, was published in 2007, and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. His new novel Offspring was released by Red Hen Press in March 2012.
Janice Eidus has won two O. Henry Prizes, the Independent Publishers Award in Religion for her novel, The War Of The Rosens, and numerous other awards for her writing. Her other books include The Celibacy Club, Vito Loves Geraldine, Urban Bliss, and Faithful Rebecca. Her work also appears in such anthologies as The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories; Neurotica: Jewish Writers on Sex; and Desire: Women Write About Wanting, and in leading newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, Jewish Currents, Tikkun, and The Forward. She lives inNew York City andMexico with her husband and daughter.
Amelia Kahaney‘s short stories have appeared in Best American Non-Required Reading, One Story, Crazyhorse, and other publications. She has recently ghostwritten three bestselling young adult novels, but her next book will have her name on its cover. She lives in Brooklyn
Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia Street
New York, NY
KGB Bar
March 9, 2012
7 PM
Featuring
Brendan Constantine was born in 1967, the second child of two working actors. An ardent supporter of Southern California’s poetry communities and one of its most recognized poets, he has served as a teacher of poetry in local schools and colleges for the last seventeen years. His work has appeared in numerous journals, most notably Ploughshares, The Cortland Review, RUNES, and LA Times Bestseller The Underground Guide to Los Angeles. He released his first collection, Letters to Guns, in 2009 (Red Hen Press). He is currently poet-in-residence at the Windward School in West Los Angeles and Loyola Marymount University Extension. He is also currently working with The Alzheimer’s Poetry Project, bringing poetry workshops to Alzheimer’s patients throughout the southland. He holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and lives in Hollywood at Bela Lugosi’s last address. Red Hen Press will release his third collection, Calamity Joe, in March 2012.
Lynnell Edwards is the author of three collections of poetry, Covet (2012), The Highwayman’s Wife (2007), and The Farmer’s Daughter (2003), all from Red Hen Press. Her book reviews and short fiction have been published nationally in such journals as Pleiades, The Hollins Critic, Connecticut Review, American Book Review, and New Madrid. She is Associate Professor of English at Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky. She also writes a books column for Louisville Magazine and is Board member of InKY, inc., sponsor of the monthly literary reading series InKY, which she co-produces.
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram has been a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference work-study scholar, a writer-in-residence at the Montana Artists Refuge, and is a Cave Canem alumna. Her poetry has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Callaloo, Harvard Review, Subtropics, and other journals. She received first place in the 2011 Summer Literary Seminars poetry contest, won the Gulf Coast Magazine Donald Barthelme Prize for Short Prose, and received second place in Narrative Magazine’s poetry contest. Bertram is a graduate of the writing programs at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was a Gaius Charles Bolin Fellow at Williams College, where she taught creative writing and literature. Her first book, But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise, won the 2010 Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award, judged by Claudia Rankine. It will be released by Red Hen Press in March 2012.
KGB Bar
85 East 4th Street
New York, NY
Poets House
March 10, 2012
4:30 PM
Featuring
Li-Young Lee was born inDjakarta,Indonesia in 1957 to Chinese political exiles. Both of Lee’s parents came from powerful Chinese families: Lee’s great grandfather was the first president of the Republic of China, and Lee’s father had been the personal physician to Mao Tse-tsung. Anti-Chinese sentiment began to foment inIndonesia, however, and Lee’s father was arrested and held as a political prisoner for a year. After his release, the Lee family fled through Hong Kong, Macau, andJapan, arriving in theUnited States in 1964.
Though read to frequently by his father, Li-Young Lee did not begin to write himself until he came to theUniversityofPittsburgh. There, under the guidance of Gerald Stern, he realized his passion, not just for hearing but also for creating poetry. Currently, he lives inChicagoand is one of the few full-time poets in theUnited States.
Peggy Shumaker is Alaska’s State Writer Laureate. Her most recent book of poems is Gnawed Bones. Her lyrical memoir is Just Breathe Normally. Professor emerita from University of Alaska Fairbanks, Shumaker teaches in the Rainier Writing Workshop. She is founding editor of Boreal Books, publishers of fine art and literature from Alaska. She edits the Alaska Literary Series atUniversity ofAlaska Press.
Born and raised in San Francisco, poet Amber Flora Thomas earned a BA at Humboldt State University and an MFA at Washington University in St. Louis. Her lyric poems often engage the body as a record of loss and accrual. She is the author of the forthcoming collection The Rabbits Could Sing (2012) and The Eye of Water (2005), which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in several anthologies, including Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (2009) and Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade (2006).
Thomas’s honors include the Richard Peterson Poetry Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize from Rosebud magazine, the Ann Stanford Poetry Prize, and an individual artist grant from the Marin Arts Council. She has taught at Washington University in St. Louis, Dominican University of California, and the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. Thomas lives inFairbanks.
Poets House
10 River Terrace
New York, NY
Bowery Poetry Club
March 11, 2012
7 PM
David Yezzi’s latest book of poems is Azores, a Slate magazine best book of the year. His work has appeared in The Best American Poetry (2006, 2012), The Pushcart Prize Anthology, Poetry Speaks Who I Am, edited by Elise Paschen, and Bright Wings, edited by Billy Collins. He is editor of The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets and executive editor of The New Criterion. He is currently writing a biography of the poet Anthony Hecht forSt. Martin’s Press.
Andrea Scarpino is the author of The Grove Behind (Finishing Line Press, 2009). She has taught at California State University Dominguez Hills, Ohio State University, and the Institute for Reading Development, and has also taught ESL in France. She now works in Union Institute and University’s Cohort Ph.D. program in Interdisciplinary Studies, where she is the Creative Dissertation Coordinator. She is a weekly contributor to the blog “Planet of the Blind” and is widely published in print and online journals. Her interests include sijo, an ancient Korean poetic form, elegy, the intersections of art and politics, and the politics of clean water. She is currently at work on her next collection, to be released by Red Hen Press.
Brynn Saito was born in the Central Valley of California to a Korean American mother and a Japanese American father. Her poetry has been anthologized in Helen Vendler’s Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology, 3rd edition and Ishmael Reed’s From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002. Her work has also appeared or is forthcoming in Ninth Letter, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Third Coast, Pleiades, and Drunken Boat, among other journals. Brynn holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MA in religious studies from New York University. She is the 2011 winner of Red Hen’s Benjamin Saltman Award, judged by David Mason. Her collection of poetry, Bright Power, Dark Peace, will be released by Red Hen in 2013.
George Green has an MFA in poetry from the New School and currently teaches at Lehman College, CUNY, in the Bronx. His poems have appeared in the anthologies Poetry 180, 180 More, and The Best American Poetry 2005 and 2008. His book Lord Byron’s Foot, winner of the New Criterion Poetry Prize, is forthcoming this fall from St. Augustine’s Press.
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery
New York, NY
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