>>>Jon Curley, Michael Heller, Burt Kimmelman, and Paul Pines
>>>
>>>Reading at the Cornelia Street Café
>>>(Cornelia Street just off Bleeker Street)
>>>
>>>February 22nd, promptly at 6 PM
>>>
>>>Address and Directions:
>>><http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com/index_performances.asp>http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com/index_performances.asp
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Jon Curley’s first book of poems, New Shadows,
>>>was published this past fall by Dos Madres
>>>Press. Fanny Howe describes his work as
>>>"gnostic and very New Englandy." He is a
>>>university lecturer in the Humanities at New Jersey Institute of Technology.
>>>
>>>Michael Heller has published eight volumes of
>>>poetry, the most recent being Eschaton
>>>(2009). His collection of essays on George
>>>Oppen, Speaking the Estranged, was published
>>>in 2008. Uncertain Poetries, a book of essays
>>>appeared in 2006. Exigent Futures: New and
>>>Selected Poems appeared in 2003. His memoir,
>>>Living Root, was published by the State
>>>University of New York Press in the Fall of
>>>2000. Two Novellas: Marble Snows & The Study,
>>>a collection of fiction, was published in
>>>2009. His libretto for the opera,
>>>Constellations of Waking, based on the life of
>>>the German-Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin,
>>>has been set to music by the composer Ellen
>>>Fishman Johnson and performed at the
>>>Philadelphia Fringe Festival. His poetry and
>>>criticism have appeared in numerous magazines
>>>and anthologies including The Paris Review,
>>>Conjunctions, Harpers, New Letters, The
>>>Nation, American Poetry Review, Jewish
>>>American Poetry, Pequod, The New York Times
>>>Book Review, Parnassus: Poetry in Review and
>>>many others. His critical study, Conviction's
>>>Net of Branches: Essays on the Objectivist
>>>Poets and Poetry, was published by Southern Illinois University Press.
>>>
>>>Burt Kimmelman has published six collections
>>>of poetry – Musaics (Sputyen Duyvil Press,
>>>1992), First Life (Jensen/Daniels Publishing,
>>>2000), The Pond at Cape May Point (Marsh Hawk
>>>Press, 2002), a collaboration with the painter
>>>Fred Caruso, Somehow (Marsh Hawk Press, 2005),
>>>There Are Words (Dos Madres Press, 2007), and
>>>As If Free (Talisman House, Publishers, 2009).
>>>For over a decade he was Senior Editor of
>>>Poetry New York: A Journal of Poetry and
>>>Translation. He is a professor of English at
>>>New Jersey Institute of Technology and the
>>>author of two book-length literary studies:
>>>The "Winter Mind": William Bronk and American
>>>Letters (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
>>>1998); and, The Poetics of Authorship in the
>>>Later Middle Ages: The Emergence of the Modern
>>>Literary Persona (Peter Lang Publishing, 1996;
>>>paperback 1999). He also edited The Facts on
>>>File Companion to 20th-Century American Poetry
>>>(Facts on File, 2005) and co- edited The Facts
>>>on File Companion to American Poetry (2007).
>>>He has published scores of essays on medieval, modern, and contemporary poetry.
>>>
>>>Paul Pines is the author of the novels The Tin
>>>Angel (Wm Morrow, 83/ Author’s Guild, 08) and
>>>Redemption (Editions du Rocher, 97), as well
>>>as the memoir My Brother’s Madness (Curbstone,
>>>07). He has published seven books of poetry:
>>>Onion (Mulch, 71), Hotel Madden Poems (Contact
>>>II, 91), Pines Songs (Ikon, 93), Breath (Ikon,
>>>96), Adrift on Blinding Light (Ikon,03),
>>>Taxidancing (Ikon, 07) and Last Call at the
>>>Tin Palace (Marsh Hawk, 09). Poems set by
>>>composer Daniel Asia appear on the Summit
>>>label. His translations are included in Small
>>>Hours of the Night, Selected Poems of Roque
>>>Dalton, (Curbstone, 96); Pyramids of Glass,
>>>(Corona 95); Nicanor Parra, Antipoems: New and
>>>Selected, (New Directions, 86). He is the
>>>editor of Dark Times Full of Light, a tribute
>>>to Juan Gelman (Cafe Review, 09). Pines lives
>>>in Glens Falls, NY, where he practices as a
>>>psychotherapist and hosts the Lake George Jazz Weekend.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Eschaton (new poems) Talisman House Publishers
>>(2009) available at SPD, Greenfield
>>Distribution (www.gfibooks.com), www.
>>amazon.com and good bookstores. Two Novellas:
>>Marble Snows & The Study (ahadada press 2009)
>>available from SPD, amazon.com and from
>>ahadadpress at
>>http://www.ahadadabooks.com/content/view/162/41/
>>. 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
>>Recordings at http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Heller.html
>
>Eschaton (new poems) Talisman House Publishers
>(2009) available at SPD, Greenfield Distribution
>(www.gfibooks.com), www. amazon.com and good
>bookstores. Two Novellas: Marble Snows & The
>Study (ahadada press 2009) available from SPD,
>amazon.com and from ahadadpress at
>http://www.ahadadabooks.com/content/view/162/41/.
> 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
>Recordings at http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Heller.html
Eschaton (new poems) Talisman House Publishers
(2009) available at SPD, Greenfield Distribution
(www.gfibooks.com), www. amazon.com and good
bookstores. Two Novellas: Marble Snows & The
Study (ahadada press 2009) available from SPD,
amazon.com and from ahadadpress at
http://www.ahadadabooks.com/content/view/162/41/.
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
Recordings at http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Heller.html
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