Southern Writers Series featuring Matthew Rohrer

UDP author Matthew Rohrer will be reading at the Southern Writers Reading Series in Manhattan.
The Southern Writers Reading Series features the NY area’s finest authors from below the Mason-Dixon Line.
Leave Manhattan and enter the South without crossing a single bridge.
Southern transplants, aficionados, and those looking for a happy ending, southern style, are cordially invited to attend.

Matthew Rohrer is the author of A Hummock in the Malookas (which won the 1994 National Poetry Series Open Competition), Satellite, A Green Light (short listed for the 2005 Griffin International Poetry Prize), and Rise Up. With Joshua Beckman he wrote Nice Hat. Thanks. and recorded the audio CD Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He’s appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered and The Next Big Thing, has been awarded the Avery Hopwood Prize for poetry and a Pushcart Prize, and has been widely anthologized. A chapbook-length action/adventure poem They All Seemed Asleep was recently published by Octopus Books. He teaches in the creative writing program at NYU and lives in Brooklyn.