Please join us at Otto's Shrunken Head
538 E. 14th St.
New York, NY 10009
Saturday, Sept. 20
2-4 PM
for a reading by Amy Glynn, George Green, John Foy, Amy Lemmon, Quincy R. Lehr, and Rick Mullin.
Amy Glynn's work appears widely in journals and anthologies including The Best American Poetry 2010 and 2012. Her collection A Modern Herbal was released by Measure Press in November 2013. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Rick Mullin’s epic poem, Soutine, and his first full-length collection, Coelacanth, were published by Dos Madres Press in Loveland, Ohio in 2012 and 2013 respectively. His book-length poem, Huncke, was published by Seven Towers in 2010. He has two chapbooks, Aquinas Flinched, published by the Modern Metrics imprint of Exot Books in 2008, and The Stones Jones Canzones, published by Finishing Line Press in 2012. His work has appeared in several journals, including Ep;phany, American Arts Quarterly, and Measure.
Amy Lemmon is the author of the poetry collections Fine Motor (Sow's Ear Poetry Press 2008) and Saint Nobody (Red Hen 2009). Her poems and essays have appeared inRolling Stone, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Verse, Barrow Street, Court Green, theJournal, Marginalia, and many other magazines and anthologies. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she has contributed articles to the Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry and the Facts on File Companion to Twentieth-Century British Poetry.ABBA: The Poems, a chapbook Amy wrote collaboratively with Denise Duhamel, is available from Coconut Books.
Quincy R. Lehr's most recent books are Heimat (2014) and the forthcoming The Dark Lord of the Tiki Bar (2015). His work has appeared in numerous venues in the U.S., Europe, and Australia, and he is the associate editor of The Raintown Review.
George Green’s book of poems, Lord Byron’s Foot, won the New Criterion Prize in 2012 and the Poets’ Prize in 2014. His work has appeared in various journals and anthologies, including Poetry 180; 180 More Poems; The Best American Poetry 2005, and 2006; The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets; and Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems about Birds. Green grew up in western Pennsylvania but has lived for over three decades in Manhattan’s East Village. He teaches at Lehman College, CUNY, in the Bronx. In 2014 he received an award for literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
John Foy's first book is Techne's Clearinghouse (Zoo Press). His poetry is featured in the Swallow Anthology of New American Poets (Swallow Press/Ohio University Press) and has appeared widely in magazines, including The New Yorker, Poetry, The New Criterion, Parnassus, The Raintown Review, American Arts Quarterly, and Barrow Street. His work has also been selected for the Poetry Daily website, Kin, Umbrella, linebreak, The Nervous Breakdown, YARN, and other websites. He has an MFA from Columbia University and has taught writing at Harvard Business School, Columbia, and Barnard. His essay-reviews have appeared in Parnassus, Contemporary Poetry Review and other publications, both print and on line, and he has been a guest blogger for Best American Poetry. You can visit his website at
www.johnffoy.net
Poetry reading by Glynn, Green, Foy, Lemmon, Lehr, and Mullin
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