Join us as we continue the tradition of summer poetry readings. This outdoor reading series is held on the newly renovated rooftop of the Arsenal Building in Central Park and will feature new and emerging poets.

Matt Hart is the author of the poetry collections Who's Who Vivid (Slope Editions, 2006) and You Are Mist (Moor Books, Limited Edition, 2009). A third book, Wolf Face, will be published this fall by H_NGM_N Books, and a fourth, Light-Headed, will appear from BlazeVOX in spring 2011. His poems have appeared in numerous print and online journals, including Harvard Review, jubilat, Lungfull! and Washington Square. A co-founder and the editor-in-chief of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking & Light Industrial Safety, he lives in Ohio and teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

Dorothea Lasky’s poetry collections include Black Life (Wave Books, 2010) and AWE (2007). Her chapbooks include Tourmaline (Transmission Press, 2008); The Hatmaker's Wife (Braincase Press, 2006); Art (H_NGM_N Press, 2006); and Alphabets and Portraits (Anchorite Press, 2005). Her work has appeared in various journals including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. She has been educated at Washington University, University of Massachusetts/Amherst, and Harvard University. Currently, she is researching creativity and education at the University of Pennsylvania.

Catie Rosemurgy is the author of the poetry collections The Stranger Manual (Graywolf Press, 2010) and My Favorite Apocalypse (2001). Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and Best American Poetry. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award for Emerging Female Writers. Her work has been anthologized in Isn’t It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Young American Poets and Poetry 30, a collection of work by American poets in their thirties. She lives in Philadelphia.