Friday: Paragraph Poetry Series

PARAGRAPH POETRY READING

Friday, September 11th

8:00 pm; Free

Clay Spa, 25 West 14th Street

 

Hosted by Paragraph, Workspace for Writers

http://www.paragraphny.com/events/2009/09/11/

Nearest subways are: 4, 5, 6, N, Q, W to Union Square, L to 6th Avenue (at 14th Street), F to 14th Street (at Sixth Avenue) 1,2,3 to 14th Street

 

 

Come out this Friday and enjoy some poetry:

 

“Paragraph is honored to host a reading with some of our generation’s finest writers. Novelist Darin Strauss and poets Timothy Donnelly and Matthew Zapruder will share their work at the home of our next-door neighbor, the beautiful Clay Spa. Please join us for an evening of warm company and great writing as we celebrate life and literature. A wine and cheese reception will follow at Paragraph. Free and open to the public.”

 

Timothy Donnelly is

the author of Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit

and The Cloud Corporation (forthcoming, 2010). He is poetry editor of

Boston Review. New work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in

Harper's, jubilat, The Nation, The Paris Review, A Public Space, and

elsewhere. He is an associate professor at Columbia University's School

of the Arts.

 

Darin Strauss

is the international best-selling author of the New York Times Notable

books Chang and Eng and The Real McCoy, and the national bestseller

More Than It Hurts You, now out in paperback. Also a screenwriter, he

is adapting Chang and Eng with Gary Oldman, for Disney. The recipient

of a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction writing, he is a Clinical

Associate Professor at NYU's creative writing program.

 

Matthew Zapruder

is the author of the poetry collections American Linden, Come On All

You Ghosts (forthcoming, 2010) and The Pajamaist, which won the William

Carlos Williams Award and was chosen by Library Journal as one of the

top ten poetry volumes of 2006. Luxbooks has also published a graphic

novel version of the poem "The Pajamaist." He is also co-translator

from Romanian of Secret Weapon: Selected Late Poems of Eugen Jebeleanu.