[St Louis]

Matvei Yankelevich, Nathaniel Farrell, and Keith Newton
April 28, 2012, 7:00 pm
at Fort Gondo Compound for the Arts

Nathaniel Farrell was born and grew up in Western Pennsylvania before moving to New York City, where he lived for fifteen years. A recent arrival in St. Louis, he is currently completing a dissertation on modern poetics at Columbia University and teaching at Washington University. A collection of two unpublished long poems—Newcomer and The Republic—is forthcoming on Ugly Duckling Presse. Keith Newton’s writing has appeared in Denver Quarterly, 1913, Harvard Review,Konundrum Engine, and Typo, among other journals, and his chapbook of poems Sent Forth to Die in a Happy City was published in 2009 by Cannibal Books. He is co-editor of The Harp & Altar Anthology (Ellipsis Press, 2010), a selection of writing from the magazine Harp & Altar, which he founded in 2006. He lives in Brooklyn. Matvei Yankelevich is the author of Boris by the Sea (Octopus Books), and the translator of Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Ardis/Overlook). His new collection of poems, Alpha Donut, has just been released by United Artists Books. He is a member of the writing faculty at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College and one of the the founding editors of Ugly Duckling Presse, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit publishing collective. All readings are sponsored in part by All Along Press. - - - - - - This is our final reading in this season's series. You'll soon be receiving updates about the upcoming season, to resume in the Fall of 2012. We hope to see you then! - - - - - - fort gondo compound for the arts 3151 Cherokee Street, St. Louis, MO www.fortgondo.com