[New York, NY]

Cedar Sigo, Rosanna Warren & Dara Wier
August 18, 2011, 6:30 pm
at Arsenal Building at Central Park

The Academy of American Poets presents its annual Poetry from the Rooftops free summer reading series atop the historic Arsenal Building in New York City’s Central Park. Each year, the Academy collaborates with the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation to provide an intimate escape from the flow of traffic and offer New Yorkers the opportunity to hear a diverse group of contemporary poets read original work and "bare their brains to heaven." Tonight Cedar Sigo, Rosanna Warren & Dara Wier read their work. Cedar Sigo is a poet and sometime teacher, active in the art and literary worlds since 1999. He studied writing and poetics at the Naropa Institute. He is the author of seven books and pamphlets of poetry, including two editions of Selected Writings (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2003 and 2005) and most recently, Expensive Magic (House Press, 2008). His poems have been included in many magazines and anthologies, and he has published poetry books and magazines under the Old Gold imprint. He participated in “Coordinates: Indigenous Writing Now,” a conference at California College of the Arts. He has read at the Poetry Project at St. Marks Church, Bowery Poetry Club, PS1 Museum of Contemporary Art, Beyond Baroque, San Francisco Poetry Center, the San Francisco LGBT Center, Intersection for the Arts, and Small Press Traffic, among others. He has collaborated with visual artists including Cecilia Dougherty, Frank Haines, Will Yackulic and Colter Jacobsen. Currently, He is guest editing the second issue of The Can, a journal devoted to writing on poetics. His second full length collection Stranger In Town is due out from City Lights in fall 2010. He lives in San Francisco. Rosanna Warren is a poet, writer, and educator. She is the author of the poetry collections Departure, Stained Glass, Each Leaf Shines Separate, and Snow Day. She currently teaches at Boston University as the Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English and Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures. Dara Wier's ten previous books include Remnants of Hannah (Wave Books, 2006) and Reverse Rapture (Verse Press, 2005), which was awarded the Poetry Center Book Award. Her work has received awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and The American Poetry Review. She lives and works in Amherst where she directs the University of Massachusetts MFA Program for Poets and Writers.