Michael Heller and Burt Kimmelman

Reading at the Cornelia Street Café

March 11th, 6 PM

One drink minimum

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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 is forthcoming in 2009. 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. 
His many awards and honors include prizes from 
The New School for Social Research, Poetry in 
Public Places, the New York State CAPS Fellowship 
in Poetry, the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Prize of 
the Poetry Society of America, a New York 
Foundation on the Arts Fellowship, the National 
Endowment for the Humanities and the Fund for Poetry.

Burt Kimmelman has published five 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), and There Are 
Words (Dos Madres Press, 2007); his volume of 
poems titled As If Free is forthcoming in 2009 
(from Talisman House, Publishers). 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).


Eschaton (new poems) Talisman House Publishers 
(2009) available at SPD, Greenfield Distribution 
(www.gfibooks.com), www. amazon.com and good 
bookstores. 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