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2010-03-10T21:22:00.002-05:00

From the KGB Files . . .

2009-04-01T09:41:00.008-04:00

Sally Ashton & Nin Andrews wowed the audience at KGB on Monday, March 30, 2009. Here is a poem from each set:

"Yes," by Nin Andrews

"American Mayhem" or "Stateside," by Sally Ashton

New York Quarterly Reading

2009-03-03T16:32:00.003-05:00

Monday, March 16th @ 6:00 PM
Cover $7 (includes one house drink)

Hosted by Ted Jonathan

Featuring:
April Puciata
Michael Quattrone
Matthew Yeager

"For our money (what's left of it) this series showcases the contributors to one of our best and lively literary journals. All praise to Raymond Hammond and others who keep NYQ kicking."

The Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street
NYC 10014
212-989-9319

KGB Poetry, Spring 09

2009-02-09T21:32:00.002-05:00

Hosted by Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez & Michael Quattrone

Mondays @ 7:30 PM

KGB Bar
85 East 4th Street, 2nd Floor
(between 2nd Ave. & Bowery)
Admission is FREE.

February 23: Jill Alexander Essbaum & Robert Polito
March 2: Jason Schneiderman & Elaine Equi
March 9: Wendy Mnookin & JD McClatchy
March 16: Larry Felson & Linda Gregg
March 23: Elena Karina Byrne & Joshua Beckman
March 30: Sally Ashton & Nin Andrews
April 6: Farrah Field & Philip Fried
April 13: Monica Ferrell & Jean Valentine
April 20: Laura Sims & Matthew Rohrer
April 27: George Green & Billy Collins
May 4: Bill Zavatsky & Ron Padgett
May 11: Florence Cassen Mayers & CK Williams
May 18: Justin Marks & Jeffrey Yang
*May 19 @ Bryant Park: Jennifer Michael Hecht, Paul Violi & David Lehman
*This season finale is presented in association with the Word for Word reading series on Tuesday, May 19 at 6:30 PM in Bryant Park's outdoor reading room.

Intercultural Poetry Reading

2008-12-16T13:33:00.003-05:00

Intercultural Poetry Series
Julia Istomina, host

Wednesday, January 14, 2009 @ 6 PM

Mark Bibbins is the author of The Dance of No Hard Feelings, forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press, and the Lambda Award-winning Sky Lounge.

Michael Quattrone is the author of Rhinoceroses (New School Chapbook Series, 2006), and a curator of the KGB Monday night poetry reading series. He works with Visible Theatre and lives in Sleepy Hollow, New York.

John Deming is Co-Editor in Chief of coldfrontmag.com. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in POOL, Parthenon West Review, Tarpaulin Sky, Past Simple and elsewhere. A New Hampshire native, he currently lives in New York City and teaches at Baruch College and L.I.M. College. He holds degrees in journalism and poetry from the University of New Hampshire and The New School.

Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street
New York, NY 10014
212-989-9319

Cover $7 (includes one house drink)

Poems in New York Quarterly & POOL

2008-10-21T13:40:00.003-04:00

"Wist" and "Lo Mein Palace, Here I Come!" appear in the current issues of New York Quarterly and POOL.

KGB Poetry This Fall

2008-09-08T18:12:00.003-04:00

Next week, on Monday, September 15, Kevin Young and Janice Erlbaum will kick off the twelfth year of the KGB Monday Night Poetry reading series. This season promises to be an exciting one, not only because of the superlative list of readers, but because the series founders, Star Black and David Lehman, will return to co-host many of the evenings while my fellow curator, Laura Cronk, is on maternity leave. Come for the poetry, stay for the revelry! Here is our season calendar:

KGB Monday Night Poetry Reading Series, FALL 2008
Hosted by Laura Cronk & Michael Quattrone
With original hosts Star Black & David Lehman

Mondays @ 7:30 PM
Admission is FREE

September 15: Janice Erlbaum & Kevin Young

September 22: Caroline Knox & Danielle Pafunda

September 29: Nicole Cooley & Kimiko Hahn

October 6: Michael Lally & Terence Winch

October 13: The Why And Later anthology reading, with Jan Beatty, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Teresa Carson, Harriet Levin, Amanda McGuire, Erin Murphy, Kiely Sweatt, and editor Carly Sachs

October 20: Jordan Davis & Katy Lederer

October 27: Rick Barot & CAConrad

November 3: Jill Bialosky & D. Nurkse

November 10: James Cummins & David Lehman

November 17: Brenda Shaughnessy & John Yau

November 24: Paul Muldoon & James Richardson

December 1: Star Black & Daniel Nester

December 8: Heather Christle & Maurice Manning

KGB Bar
85 East 4th Street
(Between Bowery & 2nd Ave.)
New York, NY 10003
(212) 505-3360

--MQ

KGB @ Bryant Park This Summer

2008-05-21T22:42:00.004-04:00

The KGB Monday Night Poetry Series will present an evening of poetry in Bryant Park this summer, as part of the park's Word For Word reading series.

KGB Poetry @ Bryant Park
Tuesday, July 8, 2008 @ 6:30 PM
Hosted by Laura Cronk and Michael Quattrone

Featuring:

James Tate is the author of 15 books of poems, most recently The Ghost Soldiers: Poems (Ecco Press, 2008). His Selected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize in 1991. Tate's honors include a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Poetry, the Wallace Stevens Award, a 1995 Tanning Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and is currently a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

Dara Wier is the author of 10 books of poems, most recently Remnants of Hannah (Wave Books, 2006). Her work has been included in recent volumes of Best American Poetry and The Pushcart Prize Anthology. The American Poetry Review awarded her the Jerome Shestack Prize in 2001. She has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA. She directs the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and along with Noy Holland and Lisa Olstein co-directs the University of Massachusetts' Juniper Initiative for Literary Arts and Action.

Jennifer L. Knox is the author of two books of poems, Drunk by Noon and A Gringo Like Me, both available from Bloof Books. Her poems have appeared in the anthologies Best American Poetry (1997, 2003 and 2006), The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1800 to the Present, Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to Present, and Free Radicals, American Poets Before Their First Books.

Forthcoming in New York Quarterly

2008-05-07T21:28:00.003-04:00

"Wist" will appear in the next issue (#64) of New York Quarterly.

Earshot Reading

2008-02-22T20:13:00.008-05:00

Friday, April 25, 2008 @ 8:00 PM

EARSHOT
Hosted by Nicole Steinberg
Featuring:
Danielle Pafunda (author of My Zorba, Pretty Young Thing)
Michael Quattrone (author of Rhinoceroses)
Adina Schoem (Sarah Lawrence College)
Emily Wolahan (Columbia University)
Lisa A. Locascio (New York University)

The Lucky Cat
245 Grand Street (between Driggs and Roebling)
Brooklyn, NY 11211
(718) 782-0437

Admission is $5 & includes a free drink.

Visit The Lucky Cat for directions.

The Best American Poetry Blog

2008-02-13T20:13:00.003-05:00

Read The Best American Poetry Blog, as contributors to The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1800 to the Present celebrate the week of Valentine's Day and beyond with postings on the topic of Eros.

KGB Poetry Schedule, Spring 08

2008-02-07T11:19:00.000-05:00

For a pdf of this season's poetry reading schedule, click here.

Forthcoming in POOL

2008-01-27T09:10:00.000-05:00

"Lo Mein Palace, Here I Come!" earned an honorable mention in the second Best American Poetry poem challenge, judged by Paul Violi. Read the announcement on the new BAP blog. The poem is forthcoming in POOL.

Reading at the Museum of Sex

2008-01-10T13:06:00.000-05:00

Monday, February 11, 2008 @ 7:00 P.M.
Reading to celebrate The Best American Erotic Poems From 1800 to the Present, ed. David Lehman

Editor David Lehman and contributors William Wadsworth, Maggie Wells, Sarah Arvio, Michael Quattrone, Star Black, Laura Cronk, and Paul Violi read selections from this "cheerfully eclectic, determinedly accessible and defiantly sex-positive collection" (Publishers Weekly)

The Museum of Sex
233 Fifth Avenue (@ 27th Street)
New York, NY 10016
General Information: (212) 689-6337
FREE

Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel--Second Floor

2007-11-11T20:26:00.001-05:00

The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel--Second Floor (No Tell Books), edited by Reb Livingston and Molly Arden, is now available for purchase here.

Contributors:

Eric Abbott * Deborah Ager * Malaika King Albrecht * William Allegrezza * Molly Arden * Cynthia Arrieu-King * Robyn Art * Sandra Beasley * Aaron Belz * Erin M. Bertram * Mary Biddinger * Ana Bozicevic-Bowling * Timothy Bradford * Joseph Bradshaw * Jason Bredle * Jenny Browne * Jenna Cardinale * Bruce Covey * Phil Crippen * Susan Denning * Michelle Detorie * Laurel K. Dodge * Mark DuCharme * Peg Duthie * kari edwards * AnnMarie Eldon * Jill Alexander Essbaum * Julie R. Enszer * Noah Falck * Michael Farrell * Katie Fesuk * Adam Fieled * Alice Fogel * Elisa Gabbert * Eric Gelsinger * Scott Glassman * David B. Goldstein * Dean Gorman * Anne Gorrick * Lea Graham * Kate Greenstreet * Piotr Gwiazda * Shafer Hall * Josh Hanson * Nathan Hoks * Donald Illich * Salwa C. Jabado * Charles Jensen * Jim Kober * Ron Klassnik * Jennifer L. Knox * Dorothee Lang * Sueyeun Juliette Lee * David Lehman * Reb Livingston * Rebecca Loudon * Justin Marks * Clay Matthews * Kristi Maxwell * Gary L. McDowell * Erika Meitner * Didi Menendez * Michael Meyerhofer * Steve Mueske * Gina Myers * Cheryl Pallant * Shann Palmer * Alison Pelegrin * Simon Perchik * Derek Pollard * Andrea Potos * Cati Porter * Laurie Price * Michael Quattrone * Jessy Randall * Kim Roberts * Anthony Robinson * Carly Sachs * John Sakkis * Allyson Salazar * Christine Scanlon * Margot Schilpp * Morgan Lucas Schuldt * Patty Seyburn * Peter Jay Shippy * Evie Shockley * Alex Smith * Hugh Steinberg * Nicole Steinberg * Alison Stine * Mathias Svalina * Erik Sweet * Eileen R. Tabios * Bronwen Tate * Molly Tenenbaum * Chris Tonelli * Letitia Trent * Jen Tynes * Ashley VanDoorn * Fritz Ward * J. Marcus Weekley * Betsy Wheeler * Theodore Worozbyt * Kim Young

An Afternoon of Poetic Debauchery

2007-10-23T09:05:00.000-04:00

Hosted by John Findura & Richard Hutzler

Saturday, November 17 @ 2:30 PM

The Four-Faced Liar
165 West 4th Street
(Between 6th & 7th Avenues)
New York, NY 10014
Phone: (212) 366 0608
FREE Admission

Featuring readings by

Nicole Steinberg
Michael Quattrone
Richard Hutzler
John Findura

Nicole Steinberg is the Co-Editor of LIT and Web Editor of BOMB. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel: Second Floor, RealPoetik, Barrelhouse, Pebble Lake Review and elsewhere. She's the founder, curator and host of EARSHOT, a Brooklyn-based reading series dedicated to the work and presence of emerging writers in the New York City area (http://earshotnyc.com). She lives in Queens.

Michael Quattrone is a co-curator of the KGB poetry reading series in NYC, and the author of Rhinoceroses (New School Chapbook Series, 2007). His work has appeared in Barrow Street, Jacket, No Tell Motel and Octopus, and in the recent anthologies The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel: Second Floor and The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1800 to the Present. Michael teaches at Johns Hopkins University and Visible Theatre. He lives in Sleepy Hollow, NY, with his wife and three children.

Richard Hutzler is a founding member of the New Visceral Realists, whose manifesto is forthcoming. In the meantime, in his shadow life, he is a teacher and fundraiser, and sometimes an actor and director. Most of all, however, he is a writer. He was born in Pittsburgh, that venerable city divided by rivers, and now lives and works and plays in New York, that venerable city surrounded by rivers.

John Findura holds an MFA from The New School. His poetry and criticism appear in journals such as Mid-American Review, Verse, Fugue, 14 Hills, The Agriculture Reader, GlitterPony, CutBank and Rain Taxi, among others. He also reviews regularly for The Fortean Times (U.K.) He lives and teaches in Northern New Jersey.

KGB Poetry Schedule, Fall 07

2007-09-17T14:44:00.000-04:00

For a pdf of this season's reading schedule, click here.

Poem at Verse Daily

2007-08-23T22:56:00.000-04:00

"Conscript," originally published in No Tell Motel, and then in Rhinoceroses, is the featured poem at Verse Daily today.

Poem in Barrow Street

2007-08-03T09:04:00.000-04:00

"Americain" is one of "Seven Sonnets Introduced by David Lehman" in the summer 2007 issue of Barrow Street.

Forthcoming in The Best American Erotic Poems

2007-07-02T11:58:00.000-04:00

"February" will appear in The Best American Erotic Poems: 1800 to the Present. David Lehman edited the anthology, which Scribner will publish in 2008.

"Commedia Violi" in Jacket 33

2007-05-30T20:25:00.000-04:00

"Commedia Violi," Michael's profile of poet Paul Violi, is now online in the thirty-third issue of Jacket Magazine. The essay culminates in a review of Violi's new book, Overnight (Hanging Loose Press, 2007).

This Week at No Tell Motel

2007-05-14T17:20:00.000-04:00

Please visit No Tell Motel this week to read three sonnets, a suicide note, and a forecast. A new poem will be posted each weekday.

Rhinoceroses

2007-05-10T18:00:00.000-04:00

Winner of the 2006 New School Chapbook Award
(Selected by Olena Kalytiak Davis)

Rhinoceroses
by Michael Quattrone
New School Chapbook Series, 2007
31pp. Edition of 500.

To request a copy, click here.

Chapbook Reading

2007-04-27T12:00:00.000-04:00

New School Chapbook Reading
Thursday, May 10th @ 6:00 PM
Theresa Lang Center, 2nd Floor
55 West 13th Street
(Between 5th & 6th Avenues)

Forthcoming in No Tell Motel

2007-04-15T12:00:00.000-04:00

No Tell Motel will feature five of Michael's poems during the week of May 14, 2007.