Split This Rock: Sunday Kind of Love featuring Andrea Carter Brown & Gregory Pardlo

 

Sunday, March 21, 2010, 4-6 pm

Busboys & Poets
14th & V Streets, NW, Washington, DC
Hosted by Katy Richey and Sarah Browning
Cosponsored by Busboys and Poets and Split This Rock
Open Mic at each event! - Admission free, donations encouraged!
 
Andrea Carter Brown is the author of The Disheveled Bed (CavanKerry Press, 2006) and an award-winning chapbook, Brook & Rainbow (Sow's Ear Press, 2000). She is working on a manuscript of linked heroic double sonnet crowns titled September 12. Poems from this collection won the River Styx International Poetry Prize. Brown was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and her work has received awards from the Poetry Society of America, the Writer's Voice, Thin Air, River Oak Review, and The MacGuffin. A longtime resident of New York City, she was a Founding Editor of Barrow Street. She now lives in Los Angeles where she is Visiting Lecturer in Poetry and editor of the Emily Dickinson Journal at Pomona College.
 
Born in Philadelphia, Gregory Pardlo is a graduate of Rutgers University. As an undergraduate, he managed the small jazz club his grandfather owned in nearby Pennsauken, NJ. His first book, Totem, won the American Poetry Review/Honick-man Prize in 2007. A finalist for the Essence Magazine Literary Award in poetry, he is recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and a translation grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has received other fellowships from the New York Times, the MacDowell Colony, the Lotos Club Foundation and Cave Canem. Pardlo is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at George Washington University and divides his time between Brooklyn and Washington, D.C.
 
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browning@splitthisrock.org
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