[New York, NY]

Anne Waldman, Brenda Coultas, Anna Moschovakis
November 15, 2011, 7:00 pm
at St. Mark's Bookshop

St. Mark's Bookshop presents:Anne Waldman with Brenda Coultas and Anna Moschovakis This is a free event Anne Waldman is an internationally renowned poet, performer, and Distinguished Professor of Poetics at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. She is the co-editor of Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action and the author of over forty books, including In the Room of Never Grieve and Vow to Poetry: Essays, Interviews, & Manifestos. Brenda Coultas is an Indiana native who has worked as a carny, a park ranger, a waitress in a disco ballroom, and the second woman welder in Firestone Steele’s history. Brenda Coultas now lives in New York. Coultas was a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in 2005. Her poetry has been published in Brooklyn Rail, Encyclopedia, Conjunctions, and many other journals. She is the author of A Handmade Museum, winner of the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award, and The Marvelous Bones of Time. Anna Moschovakis is the author of You and Three Others are Approaching a Lake and I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone, a finalist for the Norma Farber First Book Award and a selection of the Poetry Society of America’s New American Poetry Series. Raised in Los Angeles, Moschovakis studied philosophy at the University of California-Berkeley before turning to writing, and has worked a variety of jobs in restaurants, on film sets, at magazines, and in institutions of higher education. Currently she is a freelance editor, an active member of the nonprofit publishing collective Ugly Duckling Presse, and a visiting professor in the writing program at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.