Christian Hawkey, Ben Lerner, Timothy Donnelly and Graeme Bezanson
The Noguchi Museum hosts a special evening of poetry, presented on the occasion of the New York Art Book Fair at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center. In a program curated by poet Graeme Bezanson, prominent New York-based poets Ben Lerner, Timothy Donnelly, and Christian Hawkey will read from their books Mean Free Path, The Cloud Corporation, and Ventrakl respectively. The readings will take place in the Museum’s large ground-floor gallery, which houses a variety of sculptures in stone.
The Museum will remain open until 8:30 pm, with pay-what-you-wish admission and a cash bar starting at 6:00 pm.
Prior to the readings, which begin at 7:00 pm, visitors are invited to mingle and experience the galleries.
Graeme Bezanson is a founding editor of coldfrontmag.com, an online journal of essays and poetry reviews. His poems have recently appeared in Washington Square, The Laurel Review, Coconut, and The Agriculture Reader. His chapbook, Space Program, is forthcoming from Seattle’s Pilot Books. Mr. Bezanson lives and works in Manhattan.
Ben Lerner’s first book, The Lichtenberg Figures, won the Hayden Carruth Award from Copper Canyon Press, was a Lannan Literary Selection, and was named one of 2004’s best books of poetry by Library Journal. It will soon appear in German translation from Luxbooks. His second book, Angle of Yaw (Copper Canyon, 2006), was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Northern California Book Award, among other honors. Copper Canyon published his third book of poems, Mean Free Path, in early 2010. His first (and probably last) novel is forthcoming from Coffee House Press. He has been a Fulbright Scholar and a Howard Foundation Fellow. He edits poetry for Critical Quarterly and teaches at Brooklyn College.
Timothy Donnelly, who was hailed by The New Yorker as “the barreler-in-chief of the younger generation of American poets,” is the author of the books The Cloud Corporation (Wave Books, 2010) and Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit (Grove Press, 2003). His work has been translated into German and Italian and has appeared in numerous anthologies, including Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century, Isn’t It Romantic: 100 Love Poems, Joyful Noise: An Anthology of America Spiritual Poetry, and Poet, Poems, Poetry, edited by Helen Vendler. A graduate of Johns Hopkins, Columbia, and Princeton Universities, he is a poetry editor for Boston Review and teaches in the writing program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. Mr. Donnelly lives in Brooklyn.
Christian Hawkey is author of two full-length books of poetry and two chapbooks. His poems and translations have appeared in BOMB, Best American Poetry, jubilat, and The Anthology of New European Poetry, and his art criticism has appeared in Frieze and Meatpaper. He has received awards from the Academy of American Poets and the Poetry Fund, and in 2006 he received a Creative Capital Innovative Literature Award. In 2008, he was a DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Fellow. He is currently an Associate Professor at Pratt Institute, where he teaches in the Humanities and Media Studies department, and in the Writing Program. His newest book, Ventrakl, is a mixed-genre exploration of the life and work of Georg Trakl, published by Ugly Duckling Presse (2010).