Poets Gregory Pardlo & Julie Sheehan @ Big Apple BAP: NYC's Best American Poetry Poets

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Poets Gregory Pardlo & Julie Sheehan @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.

Born in Philadelphia in 1968, Gregory Pardlo is a graduate of Rutgers University, Camden. As an undergraduate, he managed the small jazz club his grandfather owned in Pennsauken, NJ. He received the MFA from NYU as a New York Times Fellow in Poetry. Pardlo is the author of Totem, winner of the 2007 APR/ Honickman Prize, and translator of Niels Lyngsoe's, Pencil of Rays and Spiked Mace (Bookthug, 2004). He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Cave Canem, the MacDowell Colony, and the NEA. He currently serves as an associate poetry editor for Callaloo, and is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at George Washington University. He divides his time between Washington, D.C. and Brooklyn. His website is http://pardlo.com. He appeared in The Best American Poetry 2010.

Julie Sheehan's three poetry collections are Bar Book: Poems & Otherwise, Orient Point and Thaw. Her honors include a Whiting Writers' Award and NYFA Fellowship in Poetry. Her poems have appeared in many magazines and anthologies. She teaches in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton. She appeared in The Best American Poetry 2005.

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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