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Subject(s)

• American poetry—New York (State)—New York [Browse]
• East Village (New York, N.Y.)—Intellectual life [Browse]
• American poetry—20th century [Browse]
• New York (N.Y.)—Poetry [Browse]

Related name

• Lehman, David, 1948- [Browse]
• Black, Star [Browse]

Summary note

• "Started in 1997 by poets David Lehman and Star Black the KGB Bar poetry series is widely recognized as the hottest and perhaps the best reading series in New York. Located in the hip East Village KGB Bar, these Monday-night readings boast a fantastic variety and quality of internationally known poets from Charles Simic, Molly Peacock, and Katha Pollit to Marie Howe, Mark Strand, and Yusef Komunyakaa.".
• "Now Lehman and Black have gathered work from the first three seasons into an anthology. Together with a generous supply of photographs and anecdotes from the contributors on the most memorable thing ever to happen to them at a poetry reading, this unique book of poems reflects the amazing variety and energy of poetry today."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents

• Preamble / Denis Woychuk
• Introduction / David Lehman
• Poets on Poets / Nin Andrews
• from "Mirrors" / Sarah Arvio
• Will / L. S. Asekoff
• New Constructions / John Ashbery
• It Says, I Did So / Mary Jo Bang
• Snow-Day / Judith Baumel
• Your Character Is Your Destiny / Erin Belieu
• See It Does Rise / April Bernard
• For the Twentieth Century / Frank Bidart
• Happy Hour / Walid Bitar
• from Balefire / Star Black
• The Day We Visited New Orleans / Robert Bly
• Confessional / Tom Breidenbach
• Zohar / Tom Carey
• Evensong / Marc Cohen
• Tomes / Billy Collins
• Astropastoral / Douglas Crase
• St. Francis and the Nun / Carl Dennis
• The Agreement of Predicate Pronouns / Tom Disch
• Sex with a Famous Poet / Denise Duhamel
• Autobiographical Poem / Elaine Equi
• Argument / Jonathan Galassi
• Two Girls / Suzanne Gardinier
• Failure / Dana Gioia
• Murder / Lucy Grealy
• In the Grove / Rachel Hadas --
• The GWB in the Rain / Mary Stewart Hammond
• Performance Poem / Bob Holman
• A Reading / Virginia Hooper
• Mrs. Eden in Town for the Day / Richard Howard
• Sixth Grade / Marie Howe
• When One Is Feeling One's Way / Lawrence Joseph
• Harm / Vickie Karp
• Oracular Degeneration / Karl Kirchwey
• Gaudy Slave Trader / Wayne Koestenbaum
• Chastity Belt / Yusef Komunyakaa
• Bluebird in Cutleaf Beech / Wendy Wilder Larsen
• The Novelist Speaks / Ann Lauterbach
• The Prophet's Lantern / David Lehman
• Translation / Rika Lesser
• Plague Victims Catapulted over Walls into Besieged City / Thomas Lux
• The House Style / Elizabeth Macklin
• Blues / Pierre Martory
• Two Men, Two Grapefruits / Donna Masini
• Bishop Reading / J. D. McClatchy
• A Window at Key West / Honor Moore
• Hard Drive / Paul Muldoon
• Milk / Eileen Myles
• Philosophical Songs / Charles North
• The Lake / Geoffrey O'Brien
• Poem / Michael O'Brien --
• Breakfast with Cats / Molly Peacock
• from "Rain, Clouds, Eight Thousand Miles of Roads" / Wang Ping
• Overheard in the Love Hotel / Robert Polito
• Mind-Body Problem / Katha Pollitt
• Five Wishes / Anne Porter
• Of Joy Illimited: Polyphonic Soundings: Shore to Ship / Anna Rabinowitz
• The Big Bad Art Thing / Carter Ratcliff
• Singing to Tony Bennett's Cock / Victoria Redel
• It Being Forbidden / Martha Rhodes
• Airports of the World / Eugene Richie
• Gail / Hugh Seidman
• The Scholar / Vijay Seshadri
• Old Poems / David Shapiro
• 6/20/97 / Harvey Shapiro
• The Lives of Alchemists / Charles Simic
• Equality / Hal Sirowitz
• Santa Monica / Charlie Smith
• The Night, The Porch / Mark Strand
• Postmodern Maturity / Tony Towle
• Moonshine Sonata / John Tranter
• Of Mere Plastic / David Trinidad
• The Hazards of Imagery / Paul Violi
• Create Desire / Karen Volkman
• The Need for Attention / William Wadsworth --
• White Nights / Lewis Warsh
• Produce, Produce / Susan Wheeler
• Nature Study / Trevor Winkfield
• Cicada Blue / Charles Wright.

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ISBN

0688171095

LCCN

00026698

OCLC

43567581

RCP

C - O

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