On Oct 7, KGB Bar Monday Night Poetry Reading Series presents poets Pablo Medina, Matthew Rohrer, and Tangie Mitchell. Doors will open at 7 PM, and the reading will begin at 7:30 PM. The event will be held on the second floor. Not wheelchair accessible. Must be 21+ to attend.
Pablo Medina was born in Havana, Cuba, and moved to New York City with his family when he was 12. He is the author of several poetry collections, including Soledades (Editorial Betania, 2017); The Island Kingdom (Hanging Loose Press, 2015); The Man Who Wrote on Water (Hanging Loose Press, 2011); Points of Balance/Puntos de apoyo (Four Way Books, 2005); The Floating Island (White Pine Press, 1999); and Arching into the Afterlife (Bilingual Review Press, 1991). With Carlos Ordonez, he published the photography and poetry book Calle Habana (PhotoStroud) in 2013. Medina is the recipient of numerous honors and awards for his writing and translations, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund, the United States Department of State, the Oscar B. Cintas Foundation, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the New Jersey State Arts Council, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Medina served on the board of directors for the Association of Writers & Writing Programs from 2002–2007 and as president in 2005–2006. He is a professor in the Department of Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College and directs the department’s MFA program.
Matthew Rohrer is the author of Army of Giants (Wave Books, 2024), The Sky Contains the Plans (Wave Books, 2020), The Others (Wave Books, 2017), which was the winner of the 2017 Believer Book Award, Surrounded by Friends (Wave Books, 2015), Destroyer and Preserver (Wave Books, 2011), A Plate of Chicken (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009), Rise Up (Wave Books, 2007) and A Green Light (Verse Press, 2004), which was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize. He is also the author of Satellite (Verse Press, 2001), and co-author, with Joshua Beckman, of Nice Hat. Thanks. (Verse Press, 2002), and the audio CD Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He has appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered and The Next Big Thing. His first book, A Hummock in the Malookas was selected for the National Poetry Series by Mary Oliver in 1994. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches at NYU.
Born and raised in North Carolina, Tangie Mitchell’s work centers personal and collective histories of the Black American South, among other subjects. Tangie earned a Bachelors in Political Science from Spelman College and an MFA in Writing (Poetry) from Sarah Lawrence College. Her work has been featured in Poetry Wales, Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora, West Trade Review, Berlin Lit, Exposition Review, and more. A Watering Hole Poetry Fellow and an alum of the UK-based Obsidian Foundation, her work has also earned Best of The Net and Robert Siegel Prize nominations and has received support from the Cave Canem Foundation, The Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, Sundress Academy of the Arts, and other arts institutions. She was a Spring 2024 Contributing Editor for Poetry Wales Issue 59.3: Home in a Time of Ecological Emergency.
The KGB Bar Monday Night Poetry Reading Series, now in its 27th year, brings together nationally recognized, award winning, established and emerging poets to New York and gives them a mic in the legendary KGB Bar. The series aims to provide New York audiences with the best, most compelling, accomplished, diverse, and original poets representative of the current American climate. Originally created by David Lehman and Star Black, the series is now hosted by John Deming, Jada Gordon, Tyler Allen Penny, and Susan Lewis.