[New York, NY]

Matthew Rohrer @ The American Poet Launch Party
October 22, 2011, 7:00 pm
at Lillian Vernon Writer's House

Matthew Rohrer is reading with Carol Muske-Dukes and Tracy K.Smith at the American Poet Launch Party. Matthew Rohrer is the author of A Plate of Chicken, 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.