Join us on Monday Feb 15, for a great reading by Gerald Stern, Anne Marie Macari, and Jericho Brown.

Gerald Stern is author of sixteen books of poetry include: Save the Last Dance: Poems (W. W. Norton, 2008); Everything Is Burning (2005); This Time: New and Selected Poems (1998), which won the National Book Award; Odd Mercy (1995); and Bread Without Sugar (1992), winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize, and Lucky Life, the 1977 Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets, which was nominated for National Book Critics Circle Award. His numerous awards include Wallace Stevens Award from Academy of American Poets, Ruth Lilly Prize from the Poetry Foundation, National Jewish Book Award, four National Endowment for the Arts grants, Guggenheim Fellwoship, and Pennsylvania Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts. The expanded edition of his book of essays, What I can't Bear Losing, came out in September 2009 from Trinity University Press.

Anne Marie Macari is author of third book of poems, She Heads Into The Wilderness (Autumn House Press, 2008), Gloryland, and Ivory Cradle, which won the APR/Honickman first book prize in 2000. She has also won the James Dickey Prize from Five Points magazine. Macari directs and teaches in the Drew Low-Residency MFA Program in Poetry.

Jericho Brown is the recipient of the Whiting Writers Award, the Bunting Fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, and two travel fellowships to the Krakow Poetry Seminar in Poland. His poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, jubilat, New England Review, Oxford American, and several other journals and anthologies. His first book, PLEASE (New Issues), won the 2009 American Book Award. Brown teaches creative writing as an Assistant Professor of English at the University of San Diego.