Pie and Poetry
Cate Marvin
Matthea Harvey
Matvei Yankelevich
Karen Weiser
Tuesday 08 May, 2012
7 - 8pm, $0
Four & Twenty Blackbirds
439 Third Avenue (at 8th street), Brooklyn
Cate Marvin’s first book, World’s Tallest Disaster, was chosen by Robert Pinksy for the 2000 Kathryn A. Morton Prize and published by Sarabande Books in 2001. Her poems have appeared in The New England Review, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Fence, The Paris Review, The Cincinnati Review, Slate, Verse, Boston Review, and Ninth Letter. She is co-editor with poet Michael Dumanis of the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century. Her second book of poems is Fragment of the Head of a Queen.
Matthea Harvey is the author of Sad Little Breathing Machine and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form. Her third book of poems, Modern Life was a finalist for the National Book Critics Cirlcle Award and a New York Times Notable Book. An illustrated erasure, titled Of Lamb, with images by Amy Jean Porter, was published by McSweeney’s in 2010.
Karen Weiser is a mother, poet and doctoral candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center, studying early American literature. She is the author of a full-length book of poems, To Light Out, released from Ugly Duckling Presse in 2010, as well as numerous chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in Well Greased, The Poetry Project Newsletter, The Chicago Review, The Brooklyn Rail, The Canary, and others. At the moment she is working on a manuscript in conversation with Herman Melville’s crazily weird novel Pierre.
Matvei Yankelevich‘s books and chapbooks include Boris by the Sea, The Present Work, and Writing in the Margin. His writing has appeared in Action Yes!, Boston Review, Damn the Caesars, Fence, Open City, Tantalum, Typo, Zen Monster, and other little magazines. His translations from Russian have cropped up in Calque, Circumference, Harpers, New American Writing, Poetry, and the New Yorker and in some anthologies. His translations of Daniil Kharms were collected in Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms.
Matthea Harvey is the author of Sad Little Breathing Machine and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form. Her third book of poems, Modern Life was a finalist for the National Book Critics Cirlcle Award and a New York Times Notable Book. An illustrated erasure, titled Of Lamb, with images by Amy Jean Porter, was published by McSweeney’s in 2010.
Karen Weiser is a mother, poet and doctoral candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center, studying early American literature. She is the author of a full-length book of poems, To Light Out, released from Ugly Duckling Presse in 2010, as well as numerous chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in Well Greased, The Poetry Project Newsletter, The Chicago Review, The Brooklyn Rail, The Canary, and others. At the moment she is working on a manuscript in conversation with Herman Melville’s crazily weird novel Pierre.
Matvei Yankelevich‘s books and chapbooks include Boris by the Sea, The Present Work, and Writing in the Margin. His writing has appeared in Action Yes!, Boston Review, Damn the Caesars, Fence, Open City, Tantalum, Typo, Zen Monster, and other little magazines. His translations from Russian have cropped up in Calque, Circumference, Harpers, New American Writing, Poetry, and the New Yorker and in some anthologies. His translations of Daniil Kharms were collected in Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms.