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Singing in Unison Part 9: Peter Acheson & Gret Sterret Smith
Closing Reception and Poetry Reading
Saturday, May 18, 2024 4 p.m. Eastern / 1 p.m. Pacific
Join us for a festive gathering and poetry reading to celebrate the closing of Singing in Unison Part 9: Peter Acheson & Gret Sterret Smith, featuring readings by Andrei Codrescu, Alicia Mountain, Vincent Katz, and Phong H. Bui.
In this Talk
Saturday, May 18, 4-6 p.m.
SLAG&RX
522 West 19th St (map)
Andrei Codrescu
Andrei Codrescu was born in Sibiu, Transylvania, Romania, and emigrated to the United States in 1966. A longtime commentator on NPR’s All Things Considered, he is the founder of Exquisite Corpse: A Journal of Books & Ideas and the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, and essays, including The Disappearance of the Outside: a Manifesto for Escape.
Vincent Katz
Vincent Katz is the author of the poetry collections Daffodil, Broadway for Paul, Southness, and Swimming Home, among others, and he has published collaborative poems with Anne Waldman and Andrei Codrescu. He translated the complete poems of Sextus Propertius and has translated the Theogony and Works and Days of the ancient Greek poet Hesiod.
Alicia Mountain
Alicia Mountain is the author of High Ground Coward, which won the Iowa Poetry Prize. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Denver and an MFA from the University of Montana. Mountain is a lesbian poet living in New York City, where she leads the poetry program in the Writer’s Foundry MFA at St. Joseph’s University in Brooklyn. Her newest book is Four in Hand.
Phong H. Bui
Phong H. Bui is an artist, writer, independent curator, and Co-Founder and Publisher/Artistic Director of the Brooklyn Rail, Rail Editions, River Rail and Rail Curatorial Projects.
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