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Red Hen Press

Event Type:	Poetry Reading
Event Date and Time:	March 21, 2013 6:00 p.m.
Description:	RED HEN PRESS AT CORNELIA STREET CAFÉ MARCH 21 at 6:00 PM JOHN BARR • ERNEST HILBERT •MARY JOHNSON • BRYNN SAITO Address: 29 Cornelia Street, New York, NY, 10014 Admission: $7 Transit: Take Subway to W 4 St Contact: 212-989-9319 ABOUT CORNELIA STREET CAFE: Cornelia Street Café was opened in 1977. Over the last thirty years, it has quintupled in size, it has won numerous awards both for its food and for its performances, but it has remained at heart an artists’ café. Senator & presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy & attorney-activist William Kunstler have read their poetry; Dr. Oliver Sacks continues to read his prose. Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffmann presents a monthly Science Series; members of Monty Python & the Royal Shakespeare Company intermittently perform. Cornelia Street now offers some 700 shows a year, two a night, ranging from science to songwriting, from Russian poetry to Latin jazz, from theatre to cabaret. For more information, please see Red Hen Press’ website, or email publicity@redhen.org. JOHN BARR’s poems have appeared in many magazines and have been published in eight collections, most recently The Adventures of Ibn Opcit, a two-volume mock epic published by Red Hen Press in 2013. His previous collections are: The War Zone (1989), Natural Wonders (1991), The Dial Painters (1994), Centennial Suite (1997), all by Warwick Press; The Hundred Fathom Curve (1997) and Grace (1999), by Story Line Press; and The Hundred Fathom Curve: New & Collected Poems (2011) by Red Hen Press. Barr has served on the boards of the Poetry Society of America, Yaddo, and Bennington College, the latter as chairman. He has taught in the graduate writing program of Sarah Lawrence College, and was appointed in 2004 the first president of The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine. He lives in Chicago and New York ERNEST HILBERT is the author of Sixty Sonnets (2009). His spoken word album Elegies & Laments, a “soundtrack” to Sixty Sonnets recorded with rock band and orchestra, was issued by Pub Can Records in 2012. He supplies libretti and song texts for contemporary composers Stella Sung, Daniel Felsenfeld, and Christopher LaRosa. He also writes scripts and appears in short films for the post-punk conceptual band Mercury Radio Theater. His poems have appeared in the Swallow Anthology of New American Poets (2009), Two Weeks: A Digital Anthology of Contemporary Poetry (2011), and two Penguin anthologies, Poetry: A Pocket Anthology and Literature: A Pocket Anthology (2011). He hosts the popular blog www.everseradio.com and works as an antiquarian book dealer in Philadelphia, where he lives with his wife, an archaeologist. MARY JOHNSON is author of the memoir An Unquenchable Thirst, named one of 2011′s best books by Kirkus Review. Her need for support while writing was the catalyst for the founding of A Room of Her Own Foundation. Johnson is AROHO’s Creative Director of Retreats, and is a fellow of the MacDowell Colony. Her work has been widely published, including in The Washington Post, O the Oprah Magazine, Poets & Writers, Bloomberg View, Feminism and Religion, Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, and NPR. BRYNN SAITO is the author of the poetry collection The Palace of Contemplating Departure, winner of Red Hen Press’s 2011 Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award. Her poetry has been anthologized by Helen Vendler and Ishmael Reed; it has also appeared in Ninth Letter, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Pleiades, and Drunken Boat, among other journals. Brynn was born in the Central Valley of California to a Korean American mother and a Japanese American father. She received an MFA in creative writing from SarahLawrenceCollege and an MA in religious studies from NYU. Currently, Brynn lives in the Bay Area and teaches in San Francisco.
Venue: (map)	Cornelia Street Cafe 29 Cornelia Street New York, NY