[Brooklyn, NY]

Greetings Spring Reading Series with Karen Weiser
May 10, 2012, 8:00 pm
at Unnameable Books

The 10th annual Greetings Spring reading series is curated by UDP author Jeffrey Joe Nelson. Meet & greet at 8pm followed shortly by performances & readings by Karen Weiser & a very special guest TBA. Karen Weiser is a mother, poet and doctoral candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center, studying early American literature. She has published the following chapbooks: Pitching Woo (Cy Press, Fall 2006); Heads Up Fever Pile (Belladonna, 2005); Placefullness (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2004); Eight Positive Trees (Pressed Wafer, 2002); and co-authored (with Nadine Maestas) Beneath The Bright Discus (Potes and Poets Press, 2000). Her poems have appeared in The Poetry Project Newsletter, The Chicago Review, The Brooklyn Rail, The Canary, The Germ and The Hat (as well as other publications not beginning with “The”) and several anthologies including Isn’t It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets (Verse Press, 2004). Her correspondence with Anne Waldman is part of a book entitled Letters To Poets: Conversations about Poetics, Politics and Community (Saturnalia, 2008). She is also the recipient of a Fund for Poetry award and the Mellon Fellowship through the Center for the Humanities. She lives in New York City and has taught literature at St. John’s University and Barnard College. To Light Out is her first full-length collection. www.karenweiser.com Jeffrey Joe Nelson grew up in the Garden State. Extended sojourns throughout North Carolina, Wales, Florida, California, Italy, Holland, Cuba and Prague eventually brought him to Brooklyn when he has lived for the past 13 years. Jeffrey Joe's work has appeared in Oyster Boy, New York Nights, Dial Tone, Lungfull!, Ashville Mountain Review, and Greetings, a magazine of the sound arts he founded in 1998. Recent chapbooks include a car/A Pome (Lew Gallery Editions), and Caption my Caption (Gneiss Books). He teaches English and coaches Basketball at the Coalition High School for Social Change in Harlem.