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Aug 2, 2013
to Aug 5, 2013
7th Annual Welcome to Boog City Poetry, Music, and Theater Festival
Brooklyn, NY
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Aug 9, 2013
MTK ask
New York, NY
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Aug 11, 2013
Poetry Reading
Brookyn, NY
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Aug 13, 2013
Academy Summer Reading Series: Poetry at New York Public Library
New York, NY
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Aug 20, 2013
Red Hen Press at Bryant Park
New York, NY
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| Featured Poets: | Lytton Smith, Priscilla Sneff, and Rebecca Wolff |
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July 9, 2009, 6:30 p.m.
The Arsenal Building at Central Park, 64th Street at 5th Avenue, New York, NY
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| Free and open to the public |
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This summer, the Academy of American Poets continues its tradition of summer poetry readings by working with the City Parks Foundation to present Poetry from the Rooftops. This outdoor reading series is held on the newly renovated rooftop of the Arsenal Building in Central Park. Step out of the flow of traffic and hear these poets "bare their brains to heaven":
Lytton Smith's debut collection The All-Purpose Magical Tent (Nightboat Books, 2009) was selected by Terrance Hayes for the Nightboat Prize. His chapbook, Monster Theory, was chosen by Kevin Young for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship and published in 2008. His poems and reviews have appeared in American Letters & Commentary, The Atlantic, Bateau, The Believer, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Ninth Letter, Tin House, Verse, and the anthology All That Mighty Heart: London Poems.
Priscilla Sneff is the author of O Woolly City (Tupelo, 2009), for which she received the Kenyon Review/Zoo Press first book poetry prize. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and currently teaches writing at Tufts University.
Rebecca Wolff is the author of The King (Norton, 2009) and Figment (2004). Her first book of poems, Manderley (University of Illinois, 2001) was selected by Robert Pinsky for the National Poetry Series. She was the recipient of the 2003 Barnard Women Poets Prize, and is currently the editor of Fence.
Poetry from the Rooftops: View the complete line up for the 2009 series |
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| Sponsored by The Academy of American Poets and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. |
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| Info: |
(212) 274-0343
academy@poets.org
http://www.poets.org |
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