Join us for an evening of poetry with L. S. Asekoff and Sarah Gridley as they read from their recently published and highly acclaimed collections of poetry.

L. S. Asekoff's latest collection is The Gate of Horn (Northwestern University Press, April 2010). Apart from two collections published in the 1990s, the work of L. S. Asekoff has been winning admirers only among those lucky enough to encounter it in poetry journals and magazines over the last three decades. He teaches in the Brooklyn College's Creative Writing Program.

"An agitation like that of heat lightning fixes the landscapes of death and life in Lou Asekoff's incredible new collection. . . Asekoff is a superb poet at the height of his powers." —John Ashbery

"There are incredible lunatic leaps here and the shock of the unexpected. And lovely passages and great endings. . . And a deep and cunning and heartfelt understanding of the shoah—in poem after poem. A major book." —Gerald Stern

Sarah Gridley's most recent book, Green is the Orator (University of California, 2010), follows Gridley's first collection, Weather Eye Open, in addressing the challenge of representing nature through language. Gridley's deftly original syntax arises from direct experience of the natural world and from encounters with other texts, including the Egyptian "Book of the Dead" and the writings of Charles Darwin, Peter Mark Roget, William Morris, William James, and Henri Bergson. She is a professor at Case Western State University in Ohio.

A signing will follow the event.