Poet Matthea Harvey @ Big Apple BAP: NYC's Best American Poetry Poets

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Poet Matthea Harvey @The Inspired Word's Big Apple BAP: NYC's Best American Poetry Poets, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011, @ One and One Bar/Restaurant, Nexus Lounge, Manhattan, NYC.


Matthea Harvey is the author of four books of poetry—Of Lamb (an illustrated erasure with Amy Jean Porter), Modern Life, Sad Little Breathing Machine and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form as well as a fable for children and adults, The Little General and the Giant Snowflake, illustrated by Elizabeth Zechel. She is the winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award and the Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She appeared in the 2003, 2005, and 2007 editions of The Best American Poetry.

The Big Apple BAP: NYC's Best American Poetry Poets is a night celebrating New York City's finest poets, whose poems over the years have been honored with inclusion in the highly respected annual anthology, The Best American Poetry. http://www.bestamericanpoetry.com/

Hosted by The Best American Poetry's founding editor, David Lehman, this night's lineup included a dazzling array of accomplished poets: Truck Darling, Matthea Harvey, Julie Sheehan, Kimiko Hahn, Marilyn Nelson, Marc Jaffee, Anna Ziegler, Jason Schneiderman, Cornelius Eady, Timothy Liu, and Gregory Pardlo.

Founded by award-winning journalist and former Village Voice columnist Mike Geffner, The Inspired Word is one of the hottest poetry/spoken word series in the country, happening every Tuesday and Thursday night in Manhattan's East Village.

Venue: One and One Bar/Restaurant (downstairs Nexus Lounge)
76 East 1st Street (corner of 1st Avenue)
Manhattan, New York City

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