[New York, NY]

Anne Boyer & Gail Scott
May 23, 2018, 8:00 pm
at The Poetry Project

Anne Boyer’s most recent book is A Handbook of Disappointed Fate, a collection of essays and fables. Boyer’s other books include The Romance of Happy Workers, My Common Heart, and Garments Against Women . Boyer is now in the final stages of a book called The Undying, forthcoming from FSG in August 2019. She lives in Kansas City, where she is a professor at the Kansas City Art Institute. Gail Scott is an experimental prose writer. Her goal is to write sentences which have the function of poetry. She is the author of the novels The Obituary, and My Paris, among others. She is completing a work called Furniture Music, in part an ode to the downtown Manhattan poetry scene. She has taught Creative Writing for a decade at Universite de Montreal and has also worked as a literary translator. General admission: $8 Students/Seniors: $7 Members: $5 or free -No one turned away for inability to pay- Accessibility: St. Mark’s Church is wheelchair accessible. Please call The Poetry Project at 212-674-0910 in advance of events to arrange accessibility. More information on the Poetry Project website here, and on the event's Facebook page.