Friends of The Poetry Project,
We have NEWS! We are delighted to announce that Ted Dodson will be the next editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter! We've posted a brief statement from Ted, as well as some other biographical info, to our blog. Check it out here. And, we really had an amazing time last Saturday at our Epic Dessert Party, a benefit for The Poetry Project (here are a few photo highlights). Enormous thanks to those who attended the party, attended the Epic Now events the previous week and/or became a member. You made our Spring dreams flourish by helping us break our fundraising goal of $10,000! Please note that the Poetry Project office will be closed on Memorial Day (no Monday Night Reading), but check out our upcoming events below. For all of our readings through the end of the 2013 season, browse our Program Calendar. There are only 7 more till we break for the summer! See you soon,
The Poetry Project
Coming up at The Poetry Project Kazim Ali + Rebecca Brown
WEDNESDAY MAY 29 / 8PM Kazim Ali was born in the UK to Muslim parents of South Asian and Middle Eastern descent. His books include four volumes of poetry, The Far Mosque, The Fortieth Day, the mixed genre Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities and Sky Ward. He has also published two novels Quinn’s Passage and The Disappearance of Seth, two collections of essays, Orange Alert: Essays on Poetry, Art and the Architecture of Silence and Fasting for Ramadan: Notes from a Spiritual Practice as well as translations of poetry by Sohrab Sepehri and a novel by Marguerite Duras. Recently he edited the essay collection Jean Valentine: This-World Company. In addition to being associate professor of Creative Writing and Comparative Literature at Oberlin College and founding editor of Nightboat Books he teaches in the Stonecoast MFA program and is a certified Jivamukti Yoga instructor. Rebecca Brown is the author of twelve books of prose including American Romances, The Gifts of the Body, Annie Oakley’s Girl, The Last Time I Saw You and The Dogs: A Modern Bestiary. Her play “The Toaster”, commissioned by New City Theater, premiered at On the Boards. She wrote libretto for “The Onion Twins,” a dance opera produced by Better Biscuit Dance. An adaptation of The Terrible Girls was presented by About Face Theater (Chicago). Her altered books have been exhibited in the USA and Canada. Her installation GOD MOTHER COUNTRY AND ROCK N ROLL was recently exhibited at the Frye Art Museum. She teaches at MFA programs in writing at Goddard College in Vermont and the University of Washington at Bothell.
Andrew Durbin + Iris Cushing
FRIDAY MAY 31 / 10PM Andrew Durbin co-edits Wonder, a publisher of art books, ephemera, pamphlets, and glossies. He is the author of Reveler (Argos Books, forthcoming 2013). His writings have appeared (or are forthcoming0 in the Boston Review, Brooklyn Rail, Conjunctions, Fence, Maggy, and elsewhere. He is an associate editor of Conjunctions and lives in New York City. Iris Cushing was born in Tarzana, California. She is the author of Wyoming (winner of the 2013 Furniture Press Poetry Prize) forthcoming this fall. In 2011, she was a writer-in-residence at Grand Canyon National Park. Her poems have appeared in the Boston Review, Paperbag, No, Dear and other places. Iris lives in Brooklyn and edits Argos Books. She is also currently at work on a couple of collaborations with visual artists. | 
