Join us at KGB Bar in the East Village. 

Red Hen in New York City, Fall 2013
Ernest Hilbert with Matthea Harvey and Brenda Shaughnessy, hosted by Kate Gale
September 13th, 2013, 7PM
KGB Bar
85 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003

FREE!

Brenda Shaughnessy is the author of Interior with Sudden Joy (1999), Human Dark with Sugar (2008), winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and Our Andromeda (2012). Her work has appeared in the Yale Review, the Boston Review, McSweeney’s, and Best American Poetry, among other places. With C.J. Evans, she edited the anthology Satellite Convulsions: Poems from Tin House Magazine (2009).

Matthea Harvey is the author of Sad Little Breathing Machine (Graywolf, 2004) and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form (Alice James Books, 2000). Her third book of poems, Modern Life (Graywolf, 2007) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a New York Times Notable Book. Her first children’s book, The Little General and the Giant Snowflake, illustrated by Elizabeth Zechel, was published by Tin House Books in 2009. She is a contributing editor to jubilat, Meatpaper, and BOMB. She teaches poetry at Sarah Lawrence and lives in Brooklyn.

Ernest Hilbert is the author of Sixty Sonnets (2009) and All of You on the Good Earth (2013). He supplies libretti and song lyrics for contemporary composers Stella Sung, Daniel Felsenfeld, and Christopher LaRosa. His poems have appeared in the Swallow Anthology of New American Poets (2009) and two Penguin anthologies, Poetry: A Pocket Anthology and Literature: A Pocket Anthology (2011). He hosts the popular blog E-Verse (www.everseradio.com) and its reading series E-Verse Equinox. He works as an antiquarian book dealer in Philadelphia, where he lives with his wife, an archaeologist.

Below is the limited edition poster for the reading, designed by Jennifer Mercer for Nemean Lion Press. Ten numbered copies of this 11 x 17″ poster will be available for free the evening of the reading.