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Jendi to Read at Housing Works Cafe in NYC, Jan. 18 (Program Change)
This entry was posted on 1/11/2007 6:27 PM and is filed under Site News.
I'll be reading my poetry at Housing Works Used Books Cafe on Thursday, Jan. 18, in an event sponsored by the Saint Ann's Review. Housing Works is located at 126 Crosby Street. The reading starts at 7 PM. Find out more here. My co-readers are now Hugh Seidman, Nelly Reifler and Sara Femenella.
Hugh Seidman is the author of six books of poetry, including Somebody Stand Up and Sing (Western Michigan University, 2005), which won the 2004 Green Rose Prize. His first book, Collecting Evidence (Yale University Press), won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize (1970). Nelly Reifler the author of See Through, a collection of stories. She codirects the reading series at Magnetic Field in Brooklyn with Jonathan Dixon and is a regular columnist for Nextbook, a Jewish literature and culture website. Sara Femenella is currently an MFA candidate in Poetry at Columbia University. And I am, well, me.