Zinc Bar Reading Series
Poetry. Sundays at 6:30 p.m. at the Zinc Bar, 82 W. 3rd St.
Join us for three great poets this upcoming Sunday, 1/24, at 6:30 p.m. sharp.
With dancing by Rebecca Ketchum!
Bios:
Mark Horosky was raised in Connecticut and was educated at the University of Arizona (MFA), Pace University (through the New York City Teaching Fellows program), and currently teaches students with disabilities at the Brooklyn Transition Center. He has published a chapbook of prose poems called Let It Be Nearby with Cue Editions and has two new chapbooks forthcoming with Flying Guillotine Press and The Equalizer.
Rebecca Ketchum attended Goucher College where she studied Dance, Arts Administration, and French. Since graduation, she has taught many subjects in Chicago, Thailand, Maine, and the Bronx. She recently finished her Masters of Arts in Education at Harvard University where, most importantly, she met Dorothea Lasky. Rebecca currently spends her time dancing, baking and working with Racoco Productions, Movementpants Dance, and Children’s Progress.
Caroline Knox’s seventh collection, Nine Worthies, is forthcoming in 2010 from Wave Books. Quaker Guns (Wave 2008) received a Recommended Reading Award 2009 from the Massachusetts Center for the Book. He Paves the Road with Iron Bars (Verse 2004) won the Maurice English Award 2005 for a book by a poet over 50. A Beaker: New and Selected Poems appeared from Verse in 2002. Her previous books are The House Party and To Newfoundland (Georgia 1984, 1989) and Sleepers Wake (Timken 1994).
Knox’s work has appeared in American Scholar, A Public Space, Boston Review, Fulcrum, Harvard, Massachusetts Review, New Republic, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry ( whose Bess Hokin Prize she has won), Times Literary Supplement, TriQuarterly, and Yale Review. Her poems have been in Best American Poetry 1988 and 1994, and on Poetry Daily. She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Fine Arts Work Center (Lannan Senior Fellowship), the Massachusetts Cultural Council (1996, 2006), The Fund for Poetry, and the Yale/Mellon Visiting Faculty Program. She was the judge for the Alice Fay DiCastagnola Award of the Poetry Society of America in Spring 2003, and was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard in 2002-2003. In 2007, she was a juror for the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets; in 2008, a Poetry Reviewer for the Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowships Program.
Jessica Smith is the author of one full-length collection of poetry, Organic Furniture Cellar. Since 2001, her work has been published in dozens of magazines as well as in three anthologies. Her poetry and poetics have been translated into Turkish, Swedish, Icelandic and Danish. Chapbooks include bird-book (Detumescence), The Plasticity of Poetry and Telling Time (No Press), Shifting Landscapes (above/ground press), butterflies (Big Game Books), and What the Fortune-Teller Said (dusie/a+bend). Her work has also been set to music and movement several times, most recently in the opera Ursularia by Nicholas DeMaison; her three-dimensional “poetry plastique” has been exhibited in the U.S. and Europe in shows like infusoria. Much of Jessica’s work can be accessed online at looktouch.com. Jessica is also known as an editor for her work with the monthly women’s broadzine Foursquare.
Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, Jessica received her B.A. and M.A. from SUNY Buffalo, where she was the Founding Editor of the poetry magazine name and won the Academy of American Poets Prize twice. Jessica lived in Sweden, Germany and Austria on a series of scholarships from 2003-2005, and has now resettled in Buffalo, where teaches writing at SUNY Buffalo.
