Poetry Reading
April 26th, 4-6pm
$5/person, free for students
Paul Violi, Carol Szamatowicz, and Jennifer Kietzman
Paul Violi’s most recent book, his eleventh, is Overnight published by Hanging Loose Press. He’s received the Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as grants from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the NEA, a John Ciardi lifetime achievement award and other awards. He teaches at NYU, in the NewSchool grad. writing program, and in Columbia’s Dept. of Eng. and Comp. Lit.
Carol Szamatowicz: I’m from the largest Illinoisan family I know, twelve people. Teach pre-kindergarten in the West Village. Came to New York alone as a teenager and stayed. My upbringing is typical factory (working) class with the added twist that it became parent-less when I was eleven so the brilliant minds of childhood raised me thereafter.
Jennifer Kietzman has been out of school for so long she doesn’t remember where she went. Her poems have most recently appeared in the poetry journal Gerry Mulligan. She has taught at the University of Michigan and at Colgate University, as an Olive B. O’Connor Fellow in Creative Writing, and worked as a baker in Somerville, Ann Arbor and Red Hook. She currently lives in Brooklyn and works as a writer for a private investigating firm.
