NYC Poets David Lehman, Jason Schneiderman, Truck Darling @ Best American Poetry Night

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Poets David Lehman, Jason Schneiderman & Truck Darling @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.

Jason Schneiderman is the author of Striking Surface, winner of the Richard Snyder prize from Ashland Poetry Press, and Sublimation Point, a Stahlecker Selection from Four Way Books. His poetry and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, The Best American Poetry, Grand Street, The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, Story Quarterly, and Tin House among other places. He has received fellowships from Yaddo, The Fine Arts Work Center, and The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. He was the recipient of the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America in 2004. He currently directs the Writing Center at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. He appeared in The Best American Poetry 2005.

Born in Houston, Texas in 1974 & a current resident of NYC, Truck Darling received my BA and MFA degrees in Writing & Poetics from Naropa University in 1999. Her books BLUE COLLAR HOLIDAY and HOLD TIGHT: THE TRUCK DARLING POEMS were both published by Hanging Loose Press in April 2005 and 2010, respectively. The German press luxbooks published a bilingual edition of her poems in a book titled ICH HABE ANGST UM MEINEN HEDGEFONDS in March 2008 and Faux Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, published my chapbook THE PILL BOOK in April 2008. Darling's poems have recently appeared in The Portable Boog Reader, The Hat, LIT, and Hanging Loose magazines. She appeared in The Best American Poetry 2004.

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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