Phoenix Reading Series @ Left Bank Books Sunday, December 28, 2014 6:30--8 pm 17 8th Avenue—Near West 12th Street NY, NY 10014 212-924-5638 $5 Contribution MICHAEL LA BOMBARDA, PAUL PERKUS & OPEN READING Michael La Bombarda started writing poetry in a workshop with David Ignatow at York College and then took some graduate credits at City College in Creative Writing with Joel Oppenheimer. His work has appeared in Ron Kolms The Low-Tech Manual and Five Plus Five. He has also been published in Appearances, Public Illumination Magazine, and has had about twenty poems in The Landmark, the Prince George newsletter. His chapbook None Other Than You was published in 2014 by Run Around Press, of which he is the co-publisher. He studies languages--French, Spanish, Italian, and Latin. Right now, he’s working on Spanish and will have work in the next Unbearables anthology. Paul Perkus grew up in Brooklyn and has been writing fiction since he left that blessed Borough. In recent years he has returned to the borough of his birth to participate in the Ditmas Fiction Workshops offered by novelist and short story writer Rachel Sherman. He has read his work at various venues around the city and is looking forward to publication in the near future. HOST: Michael Graves is the author of Adam and Cain (Black Buzzard, 2006), In Fragility (Black Buzzard, 2011) and two chapbooks, Illegal Border Crosser (Cervana Barva, 2008) and Outside St. Jude’s (R. E. M. Press, 1990). His poem “Apollo to Daphne” appears in an anthology from Oxford University Press, Gods and Mortals (2,001) and his “Poem to Spring in a Time of Global Warming” appears on AboutPoetry In two thousand four (2004), he received a grant from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation. Thirteen (13) of his poems appear in the James Joyce Quarterly. He has published scholarly-critical work on James Wright and organized a conference on Mr. Wright at Poets House in 2004. youtube/watch?v=HjGZeKfSW8g.... .
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