Rat Court Reading Series: Cecilia Corrigan, Brian Moylan, Jon Cotner
Tuesday 01 April, 2014
7pm, $0
KGB Bar
85 East 4 Street
Cecilia Corrigan is a writer and performer living in New York. Her first book, TITANIC, was selected by Lisa Robertson to receive the Plonsker Prize, and will be published in 2014 by &Now Books. Her chapbook, True Beige, was published in 2013 by Trafficker Press. She has been invited to perform her work at various spaces including The Museum of Modern Art, The Poetry Project, Yale University and Brown University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Capilano Review, n+1, The Henry Review, The Journal, Jacket2, O’Clock Press, The Awl, and The Philadelphia Inquirer, among others.
Jon Cotner is the author, with Andy Fitch, of Ten Walks/Two Talks (Ugly Duckling, 2010) and Conversations over Stolen Food (1913 Press, 2015). He has contributed to The Believer, Boston Review, Gigantic, Harper's, and A Public Space. His interactive walks have been presented by Creative Time, Elastic City, Harvard University, the Poetry Society of America, and Poets House. Cotner teaches at Pratt Institute, and lives in Brooklyn.
Brian Moylan is a trained poet masquerading as the Editor-in-Chief of Nerve.com and three other websites about sex, dating and relationships. He is a former staff writer at Gawker and columnist for VICE and his work has appeared The Guardian, New York magazine, Vulture, V Man, Man About Town, and other publications that you wouldn't like your mother to find on your coffee table. He is the assistant vice director of the Real Housewives Institute and has an honorary PhD in Jersey Shore studies from the University of Chicago