[Brooklyn]

Circumference Web Launch with Stefania Heim, Idra Novey, Matthew Rohrer, and Eliot Weinberger
May 18, 2012, 8:00 pm
at A Public Space

Circumference will celebrate its new website and blog with readings by Stefania Heim, Idra Novey, Matthew Rohrer, and Eliot Weinberger. Stefania Heim's translations from Italian have been published in Aufgabe and Harper's; her criticism has appeared in The Boston Review and Publisher's Weekly; and her poems in publications including Harp & Altar, The Paris Review, and The Literary Review. She is the co-founder and co-editor of Circumference: Poetry in Translation. Idra Novey is the author of Exit, Civilian, selected by Patricia Smith for the National Poetry Series, and The Next Country, a finalist for the Foreword Book of the Year Award in poetry. Her recent translations include Clarice Lispector’s novel The Passion According to G.H., forthcoming from New Directions and Penguin UK. Matthew Rohrer is the author of Destroyer and Preserver (Wave Books, 2011), A Plate of Chicken (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009), Rise Up (Wave Books, 2007) and A Green Light (Verse Press, 2004), which was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize. Eliot Weinberger is an essayist, poet, editor and translator. His books of literary writings include Outside Stories, Karmic Traces, The Stars, and Muhammad.