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Upcoming Open City Events:
The April
Open City KGB reading
featuring
Nonfiction by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
Poetry by Sophie Cabot Black
Fiction by Michael McGrath
Wednesday, April 28, 7pm
KGB Bar
85 E. 4th Street
(between Bowery & 2nd Ave)
New York City
FREE
Sophie Cabot Black has published two poetry collections, The Misunderstanding
of Nature, which received the Poetry Society of America’s First Book
Award and The Descent, which received the 2005 Connecticut Book Award. Her
poetry has appeared in numerous magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly,
The New Republic, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review. She currently teaches
at Columbia University.
Michael McGrath is currently a Hoyns/Poe-Faulkner Fellow at the University
of Virginia, where he reads, writes, and teaches. His story in the current
issue of Open City is his first publication.
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh’s critically acclaimed memoir, When
Skateboards Will Be Free, was selected as one of the ten best books of 2009
by Dwight Garner of The New York Times. The paperback edition was released
earlier this month.
The Open City KGB Reading Series, started in 1999, takes place the last Wednesday
of every month.
And here's a photo!
photo by Matt Roberts