Phoenix Reading Series @ Left Bank Books Sunday, October 5, 2014 6:30--8 pm (PROMPT START) 17 8th Avenue—Near West 12th Street NY, NY 10014 212-924-5638 $5 Contributon FLORENCE KINDEL, ROBERT KRAMER & OPEN READING Florence Kindel is a poet, painter, and visual artist. She also writes and illustrates books for children of all ages. She has an MFA from the School of Visual Arts and has taught painting and drawing at Kean College. She is currently becoming an art therapist. She is a self- taught linguist and speaks Italian and reads Medieval Italian authors, such as Dante and Ariosto. She is currently studying Chinese as a result having gone to China in 1983 where she did extensive research as an undergraduate student in Chinese painting, poetry and calligraphy. This research contributed to a show of the Yangchou Eccentric Painters at China Institute, New York City, 1985. A self-taught poet, she has published Dissolutions, chapbook (2006). Her chapbook Future Stars is forthcoming this fall. She is currently working on a 3rd manuscript. Her work has appeared in Sal Mimeo, Gerry Mulligan, and Pataphysic. Robert Kramer is a widely published playwright, poet, and translator of European literature. After studying at various universities in the United States and Europe, he became a college professor in the field of European Cultural History. He has since presented many papers and published numerous books and articles on the history of literature and art. For several years he served as Director of International Studies at Manhattan College in Riverdale. He has received six awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and has been a Fulbright Scholar for a year of research in Munich, Germany, and a Swiss Government Scholar for a year in Bern, Switzerland. He has been a guest professor at various colleges, such as the University of Connecticut, Syracuse University, and Haverford College, and has lectured at such institutions as the Smithsonian, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Art Therapist Association. He has given readings of his poetry and translations on radio and television on both coasts, and at such colleges as New York University, The University of California, and Harvard University. He is a former Director of the New York Poet’s Cooperative, and currently a semi-retired professor of Art History at Manhattan College. 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) 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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