First Tuesdays Reading Series was started by Christopher Stackhouse in the fall of 2002 at a gallery and café in Tribeca. In the Spring of 2005, the series re-located to Zieher-Smith Gallery in Chelsea. The series now moves to LMCC’s gallery space.

While its main focus is poetry and creative writing, past presentations have featured music, film/video, and performance work that incorporate writing and text.  In its fifth season, the series continues with its effort to invigorate the experience of poetry and writing through public readings and performance, presenting both the traditional and experimental use and understanding of literary artistic form.

April 3 | 6-8PM
Readers:
Wayne Koestenbaum has published five books of poetry:  Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films, Model Homes, The Milk of Inquiry, Rhapsodies of a Repeat Offender, and Ode to Anna Moffo and Other Poems.  He has also published a novel, Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes, and five books of nonfiction:  Andy Warhol, Cleavage, Jackie Under My Skin, The Queen's Throat (a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist), and Double Talk.  He wrote the libretto for Michael Daugherty's opera, Jackie O.  Koestenbaum's next book, Hotel Theory, will be published in May 2007.  He is a Distinguished Professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center, and currently also a Visiting Professor in the painting department of the Yale School of Art.

Tisa Bryant's writings, Unexplained Presence (forthcoming, Leon Works, 2007), and Tzimmes (A+Bend Press, 2000) traverse the boundaries of genre, culture and history.  Her writing has appeared in Bombay Gin, Chain, Hatred of Capitalism, Pom2, and Xantippe.  She is currently at work curating a meditation on identity, visual culture, and the lost films of Black auteur Justine Cable.  She is a founding editor of The Encyclopedia Project, and teaches composition and literature at St. John's University.

Paul La Farge is the author of two novels, The Artist of the Missing and Haussmann, or the Distinction. His stories have appeared in Story, Fence, McSweeney's, and elsewhere. He is a semi-regular contributor to The Believer. He received a Guggenheim fellowship in 2002, and won the Bard Fiction Prize in 2005. His third book, The Facts of Winter, was published by McSweeney's Books in 2005.

February 6 | 6-8PM
Readers:
Paul Killebrew was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. He currently
resides in Brooklyn and attends law school at NYU. His chapbook, Forget
Rita, was published in 2003.
Ann Stephenson was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in MIRAGE #4/PERIOD(ical), Saint Elizabeth Street, Sal Mimeo, and Typo. Her chapbook, Wirework, was published by Tent Editions in 2006. She lives in New York City and is currently completing her MFA at Bard College.
Adam Tobin owns and operates Adam's Books, a new & used bookstore in Brooklyn. He will be reading from a manuscript entitled "THIS ONLY TO SAY THAT / a real man's hat / WEATHER, IT WILL WEAR YOU / out."

March 6 | 6-8PM
Readers:
Greg Pardlo is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in poetry and a translation grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. His poems, reviews and translations have appeared in Calalloo, Lyric, Painted Bride Quarterly, Ploughshares, Seneca Review, Volt, Black Issues Book Review and on National Public Radio. He teaches creative writing at Medgar Evers College, CUNY, and lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant with his wife and daughter. His manuscript, Totem, was chosen by Brenda Hillman for the American Poetry Review/ Honickman First Book Prize and will be published Sept. 2007.

After graduating from Barnard College, Regan Good received her M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1993.   In 2001, she was a Poetry Fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center.   She has had poems published in The Paris Review, American Letters & Commentary, Exquisite Corpse, Field, Antioch Review, New Letters, Fence, The Literary Review and other journals.   She has been granted multiple stays at Yaddo, MacDowell, Ucross, Ragdale, and the VCCA.    Westown Press published a limited edition chapbook called "The Imperfect" in 2005.

Recipient of Individual Artist Awards for both poetry and fiction from the Maryland State Arts Council, Reginald Harris is in charge of IT Support and public computer training for the Enoch Pratt Free Library. His first book, 10 Tongues (Three Conditions Press, 2001) was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and the ForeWord Book of the Year. His poetry, fiction, reviews and articles have appeared in numerous journals and websites, including 5 AM, African-American Review, Blithe House Quarterly, Black Issues Book Review, Gargoyle, Lodestar Quarterly, Oyster Boy Review, Poetry Midwest, Sou'wester and the  Best Black Gay Erotica, Black Silk, Bum Rush the Page, Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade, and Voices Rising: Celebrating 20 Years of Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Writing anthologies.