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Red Hen Press
presents
Reading at KGB Bar
Apri l 2, 2010, 7pm
KGB BAR
85 East 4th strEEt, NEw York, NEw York 10003
212.505.3360 /
www.kgbbar.com
Red Hen PRess
a non-profi t l i terary organi zati on
P.O. Box 40820, Pasadena, CA 91114 / ph (626)356-4760 / fax (626)356-9974 /
www.redhen.org
David Mason’s books of poems include The Buried Houses (winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry
Prize), The Country I Remember (winner of the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award), and Arrivals. His verse
novel, Ludlow, was published by (Red Hen Press 2007), and named best poetry book of the year by
the Contemporary Poetry Review and the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, and it won
the Colorado Book Award. Author of a collection of essays, The Poetry of Life and the Life of Poetry,
Mason has also co-edited several textbooks and anthologies, including Western Wind: An Introduction
to Poetry, Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism, Twentieth Century American Poetry, and
Twentieth Century American Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry. David Mason’s new book, News From
the Village, is due out in Spring 2010. The book’s debut will be April 7th at AWP Conference in Denver.
Camille T. Dungy is the author of Suck on the Marrow (Red Hen Press, 2010) and What to Eat, What to
Drink, What to Leave for Poison (Red Hen Press, 2006.) Dungy has received fellowships from organizations
including the National Endowment for the Arts, The Virginia Commission for the Arts, Cave Canem, Bread
Loaf, the Dana Award, and the American Antiquarian Society. Dungy is Associate Professor in the Creative
Writing Department at San Francisco State University. Editor of Black Nature: Four Centuries of African
American Nature Poetry (University of Georgia Press, 2009), she is also co-editor of From the Fishouse:
An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound
Great (Persea Books, 2009) and assistant editor of Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave
Canema’s First Decade (University of Michigan Press, 2006).
Cornelius Eady is the author of Brutal Imagination (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2001), which was a finalist for the
2001 National Book Award in Poetry. He also published his work Hardheaded Weather in 2008. His honors
include the Prairie Schooner Strousse Award, a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Award, and fellowships from
the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He has
served as director of the Poetry Center at the State University of New York at Stonybrook, and has taught
at Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, City College of New York, The Writer’s Voice, The College
of William and Mary, and Sweet Briar College.
Reading at the KGB Bar
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