Saturday, March 27, 2010

Chin Music Thursday at 7 pm.

Please join us for our upcoming Chin Music reading featuring three fine poets: Matthew Rohrer, Geoffrey Nutter, and Graeme Bezanson.

Other poets to be featured this season include L.S. Asekoff, Aaron Baker, David Baker, Joshua Bell, Elaine Bleakney, Ishion Hutchinson, Major Jackson, Valzhyna Mort, and Page Starzinger. Series curated by Colin Cheney.

FEATURED POETS

Matthew Rohrer is the author of A PLATE OF CHICKEN (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009), RISE UP (Wave Books, 2007) and A GREEN LIGHT (Verse Press, 2004), which was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize. He is also the author of SATELLITE (Verse Press, 2001), and co-author, with Joshua Beckman, of NICE HAT. THANKS. (Verse Press, 2002), and the audio CD, ADVENTURES WHILE PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF BEAUTY. He has appeared on NPR's "All Things Considered" and "The Next Big Thing." His first book, A HUMMOCK IN THE MALOOKAS was selected for the National Poetry Series by Mary Oliver in 1994. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches in the Creative Writing Program at NYU.

Geoffrey Nutter's most recent collection of poetry is CHRISTOPHER SUNSET, published this year by Wave Books. He is the author of two previous books of poems, WATER'S LEAVES & OTHER POEMS and SUMMER EVENING. His poems have appeared in journals and anthologies such as Carnet de Route, Verse, Denver Quarterly, Chicago Review, Fence, Xantippe, Best American Poetry 1997, and Iowa Anthology of New American Poetry. He is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets prize.

Graeme Bezanson is a founding editor of coldfrontmag.com, an online journal of essays and poetry reviews. His poems have recently appeared in, or are forthcoming from, Washington Square, The Laurel Review, EOAGH, and The Agriculture Reader. He lives and works in Manhattan.

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