[Quincy Lehr]

Please join us on Sunday, May 4th for an open mic and featured readings by Amy Lemmon and George Witte, with special guest Sam Gwynn.

Sunday, May 4th 3:00-5:00pm
Otto's Shrunken Head
538 E 14th Street, New York, New York 10009

Amy Lemmon is the author of two poetry collections: Fine Motor (Sow’s Ear Poetry Review Press, 2008) and Saint Nobody (Red Hen Press, 2009) and co-author, with Denise Duhamel of ABBA: The Poems (Coconut Books, 2010) and Enjoy Hot or Iced: Poems in Conversation and a Conversation (Slapering Hol Press, 2011). Her work has appeared inThe Best American Poetry anthology, Rolling Stone, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Verse, The Journal, Barrow Street, and many other publications. Amy serves as Poetry Editor for the online literary magazine Ducts.org, is professor of English at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan and lives with her two children in Astoria, Queens.

George Witte is the author of three books of poems: Does She Have a Name? (NYQ Books, 2014), Deniability (Orchises Press, 2009), and The Apparitioners (Orchises Press, 2005). His poems have been published in a range of journals and anthologized in The Best American Poetry, Old Flame, Rabbit Ears, and Vocabula Bound. He received Poetry magazine's Frederick Bock prize, as well as a fellowship from the New Jersey Council for the Arts. For thirty years he has worked in book publishing, as an editor of fiction and nonfiction books, publisher of Picador USA, and for the past fifteen years editor in chief of St. Martin’s Press. He lives with his family in Ridgewood, New Jersey.

Sam Gwynn has taught at Lamar University since 1976, where he is University Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence. He is the editor of the Penguin Pocket Anthology Series from Longman/Pearson, and is a regular contributor of criticism to The Hudson Review; the spring issue contains his reviews of new books of poetry by the late Maxine Kumin, Mary Jo Salter, Lucy Brock-Broido, and Erica Dawson. His collections of verse include No Word of Farewell: Selected Poems and the new Dogwatch, from Measure Press. He lives in Beaumont, Texas, with his wife Donna. They have seven grandchildren.

[Wendy Sloan]

So sorry I have to miss this one ... and the Poet's Prize, and the translation reading ...

Break a leg, Amy, George & Sam !!!
And, while you're slurping those mai tai's, think of me!

[Terese Coe]

Looking forward to hearing Sam again! Twice in three days--his reading of "As Boaz Slept," his Victor Hugo translation, on Friday was a revelation.

[Terese Coe]

Unfortunately, Sam couldn't make it in the end...I'll leave it to him to say anything more.