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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

"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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

"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," 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).

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.

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.

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

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

In the current issue of BOMB Magazine (Spring 2007), Michael is listed as one of four finalists in the first annual Bomb Magazine Poetry Contest. Susan Wheeler judged.

"Second Thought, Double Take" appears in the current, and final, issue of Caffeine Destiny.

"Commedia Violi," a profile of poet Paul Violi, will be published in the thirty-third issue of Jacket Magazine this July. The essay includes a review of Violi's new book, Overnight (Hanging Loose Press, 2007).

Michael's sonnet, "Americain," earned honorable mention in a recent Best American Poetry contest, judged by Mark Bibbins. The poem will appear alongside other contest entries in the summer issue of Barrow Street.