Please join us for a reading by Joshua Mehigan and Meredith Bergmann
at 3 PM, October 5
at Otto's Shrunken Head
538 E 14th St.
New York, New York 10009
Joshua Mehigan’s first book, The Optimist, was a finalist for the 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His poems have appeared in many periodicals, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Poetry, which awarded him its 2013 Levinson Prize. He was also the recipient, in 2011, of a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His second book is Accepting the Disaster, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in July 2014.
Meredith Bergmann is a sculptor currently working on the FDR Hope Memorial for Roosevelt Island, NYC. Her poems and criticism have appeared or are forthcoming in Barrow Street, Contemporary Poetry Review, Hudson Review, Lavender Review, Light, Per Contra, The New Criterion, The Raintown Review, The Same, Umbrella and the anthology Hot Sonnets. A chapbook, A Special Education, is available from EXOT Books. She is poetry editor of American Arts Quarterly and its website at
www.nccsc.net.