The following event takes place at:
Medicine Show
549 West 52nd St. (between 10th and 11th Ave.), New York
$5 admission
Reservations requested to ensure seating: 212-262-4216
This program is funded by the New York State Council on the Arts, a
state agency.
Monday, May 19, 7:30 pm-- MICHAEL HELLER & GEORGE WITTE
These Are The People In Your Neighborhood
Michael Heller-- Michael Heller is a poet, essayist and critic.
Recent books include Exigent Futures: New and Selected Poems,
Uncertain Poetries, a collection of his essays, and Earth and Cave, a
memoir of Spain in the 60s. Forthcoming in 2008 are Eschaton, a book
of poems, Speaking the Estranged, essays on the work of George Oppen
and Marble Snows: Two Novellas. Among his many awards are the Di
Castagnola Prize of the Poetry Society of America and grants from the
National Endowment, NYFA and The Fund for Poetry.
George Witte's first book, The Apparitioners, was published by Three
Rail Press in November 2005; please visit
<http://www.threerailpress.com/>www.threerailpress.com for more
information or to buy the book. His poems have appeared in The
Atlantic, Boulevard, Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, Poetry,
Prairie Schooner, Ploughshares, Southwest Review, Shenandoah, and elsewhere.
For more information, please call Gary Heidt at 212 279 1412
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Speaking The Estranged: Essays on the Work of George Oppen (2008);
Uncertain Poetries: Essays on Poets, Poetry and Poetics (2005) and
Exigent Futures: New and Selected Poems (2003) available at
www.saltpublishing.com, amazon.com and good bookstores. Survey of
work at http://www.thing.net/~grist/ld/heller.htm Collaborations with
the composer Ellen Fishman Johnson at
http://www.efjcomposer.com/EFJ/Collaborations.html
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