Kim Bridgford & Joey De Jesus Read at Carmine Street Metrics, December 7
Sunday, December 7 at 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Otto's Shrunken Head
538 E 14th St, New York, New York 10009
Kim Bridgford is an award-winning poet, editor, college professor, fiction writer, and critic. In her poetry, she writes primarily in traditional forms, of which the sonnet is her form of choice. Until recently she was the director of the West Chester University Poetry Center, and she is the founding director of the new Poetry by the Sea global conference that will take place in Madison, Connecticut in May 2015. As editor-in-chief at Mezzo Cammin, a journal of poetry by women, she founded The Mezzo Cammin Women Poets Timeline Project, which is designed to become the world's largest database of women poets. She also edited Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose.
Joey De Jesus is originally from the Soundview neighborhood of the Bronx. He received his B.A. from Oberlin College and his M.F.A. in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. His work has appeared in The Cortland Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Devil’s Lake, Guernica, Rhino, Versal and elsewhere. He is poetry editor at Apogee Journal and lives in Harlem.
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