Saturday, November 21, 2009

Cornelia Street Graduate Poetry Series 11/24/09




November 24, 2009
6:00 p.m.

Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia St.
New York, NY

Come listen to four amazing emerging poets in MFA programs in NYC.

Ben Pease is an MFA candidate in poetry at Columbia University where he once leapt with joy upon finding a library book he thought he had lost and and would have had to pay a $100 late fee on top of the cost of the book. A couple weeks ago, in the midst of being lost on his bike en route to a reading, Pease was flagged down by an old Hasdic man who begged him to enter his house and turn on his air conditioner. Pease complied. He has most recently been commissioned by a team of sage editors (who wish to remain anonymous) to pen a living mythology of the Wichman, an ordinary man with a big heart who wished his name in the record books with an asterisk beside it.

In December,
Janlori Goldman will receive an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. For a zillion years, she's worked as a civil rights and privacy advocate in Washington D.C. and New York, and has a lucky job teaching at Columbia University. She lives in New York City with her teenage daughter, and is laboring with joy on her first book of poems.

Elsbeth Pancrazi lives north of here, in Inwood, NY; works in a bakery slightly to the west and across one river, in Englewood, NJ; and is an MFA candidate at NYU. In other words, the shape of her life is a large triangle.


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