MEET ME IN ZOOMLAND

In January of this seemingly endless year, Dos Madres Books published In Praise of Manhattan, my fourth book of poems. It’s a work I’m extremely proud of, and I was about to introduce the poems in a number of spring and summer readings. You know what happened next. Now, however, Carmine Street Metrics, proud sponsor of the great reading series at Otto’s Shrunken Head (an aptly named Lower East Side bar where you could find me hunched down over a bourbon most every month before the pandemic shut everything down), is going Zoom. I’m delighted to be one of the featured readers of CSM’s first Zoom event on Sunday afternoon September 13, along with poetic stalwarts Allison Joseph and Susan de Sola and what will doubtless be a richly varied, high-quality open mic. (Details are below.) As Robert Frost writes in “The Pasture”: You come too!

Carmine Street Metrics, Sunday September 13, 3 PM (Eastern Time).

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Special features: Allison Joseph, David M. Katz, Susan de Sola.

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Allison Joseph is a poet and professor living in Carbondale, Illinois, where she's part of the creative writing faculty at Southern Illinois University. Born in London, England to parents of Caribbean heritage, she has also lived in Toronto, Canada and the Bronx, NY. Her latest books are Confessions of a Barefaced Woman (Red Hen Press), Smart Pretender (Finishing Line Press), and The Last Human Heart (Diode Editions). She is the widow of the late poet and editor Jon Tribble.

David M. Katz was born on New York’s Lower East Side and has lived most of his life in Manhattan. He is the author of four books of poetry—this year's In Praise of Manhattan, Stanzas on Oz (2015), and Claims of Home (2011), all published by Dos Madres Press, and The Warrior in the Forest, published by House of Keys Press in 1982. Poems of his have appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, The Hudson Review, The New Criterion, PN Review (UK), The New Republic, The Hopkins Review, The Cortland Review, and elsewhere. His criticism has appeared in The Hopkins Review, Contemporary Poetry Review, Raintown Review, Jewish Quarterly (UK), and Congress Monthly. He invites you to come check out The David M. Katz Poetry Blog at davidmkatzpoet.com, which was launched in June.

Susan de Sola is an American poet living in The Netherlands. A past winner of the Frost Farm Prize, Susan has published widely, and her work has appeared in anthologies such as Best American Poetry. Her collection, Frozen Charlotte, was published recently by Able Muse Press.

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Time: Sep 13, 2020 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)