[New York, NY]

Susan Bernofsky, Jeannine Marie Pitas, Laura Solomon
June 19, 2011, 5:30 pm
at Zinc Bar

Katherine Bogden and Linda Trimbath of Ugly Duckling Presse guest curate the month of June at the Zinc Bar Reading Series. Tonight they welcome SUSAN BERNOFSKY JEANNINE MARIE PITAS LAURA SOLOMON Laura Solomon was born in 1976 in Birmingham, Alabama. Her books include Bivouac (Slope Editions, 2002), Blue and Red Things (UDP, 2007), and The Hermit (UDP, 2011). Other publications include a chapbook, Letters by which Sisters Will Know Brothers (Katalanché Press 2005) and Haiku des Pierres / Haiku of Stones by Jacques Poullaoueq, a translation from the French with Sika Fakambi (Editions Apogée, 2006). Her poetry was recently included in the anthology Poets on Painters (Witchita State Press 2007), has appeared in magazines across North America and Europe and has been translated into ten languages. Most recently she has lived in Paris, Philadelphia, and Verona, Italy. Jeannine Marie Pitas is a teacher, translator and writer from Buffalo, New York. Under the guidance of Uruguayan writers Nidia di Giorgio and Roberto Echavarren, she has translated three of Marosa di Giorgio´s books into English: The History of Violets, Magnolia, and The Native Garden is in Flames. Susan Bernofsky has translated seventeen books, including six by Robert Walser as well as novels by Jenny Erpenbeck, Yoko Tawada, Hermann Hesse, and others. She received the 2006 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translation Prize as well as awards and fellowships from the NEH, NEA, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Lannan Foundation.  She is currently serving as Chair of the PEN Translation Committee and teaching in the MFA Program at the Columbia University School of the Arts. Come join us for the free Sunday evening reading at one of New York's longest running poetry series. Facebook RSVP here.