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Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Poetry Society of America present Poems & Pints, six evenings with premier American poets at the historic Fraunces Tavern in downtown New York City. Each evening, two poets read their own work and favorite poems by others. The selection of highly distinguished participating poets include current and past U. S. Poet Laureates as well as winners of the Pulitzer, Bollingen, and T. S. Eliot Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award, and recipients of Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, and MacArthur “genius” grants. The poetry readings will take place in the venerable surroundings of the Nichols Room at Fraunces Tavern, a well-known meeting place since 1762 as well as the site of Washington’s farewell address and the first State and War Departments. Admission to all readings is free. Schedule:All evenings at the Fraunces Tavern, 54 Pearl Street (at Broad Street)
About the Poets:
Anna Rabinowitz’s poetry books include THE WANTON SUBLIME: A Florilegium of Whethers and Wonders, DARKLING: A Poem, which was a finalist for ForeWord Magazine’s Best Poetry Book of Award and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and AT THE SITE OF INSIDE OUT, a winner of the Juniper Prize. She was a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in and has published in journals including Atlantic Monthly, Boston Review, The Paris Review, and many anthologies. Rabinowitz edits and publishes the literary journal American Letters & Commentary and is a vice-president of the Poetry Society of America. Listen to the October Poems & Pints reading by Anna Rabinowitz: 
Rosanna Warren is the author of Departure, Stained Glass, named the Lamont Poetry Selection by the Academy of American Poets, as well as Each Leaf Shines Separate, and Snow Day. Her awards include the Pushcart Prize, the Award of Merit in Poetry and the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies. Warren has been Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and was The New York Times Resident in Literature at the American Academy in Rome. She is a contributing editor of Seneca Review and the poetry editor of Daedalus and is Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Professor of the Humanities at Boston University. Listen to the October Poems & Pints reading by Rosanna Warren: 
Paul Muldoon’s books of poetry include Horse Latitudes, Moy Sand and Gravel, and Poems 1968-1998. His awards include a Pulitzer for Moy Sand and Gravel, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Sir Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award, the T. S. Eliot Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, and the Irish Times Irish Literature Prize. Muldoon worked for BBC Belfast as a radio and television producer and has taught at a number of universities including Cambridge University and Columbia University. He is currently Howard G.B. Clark ’21 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University and Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford as well as Poetry Editor of The New Yorker. Listen to the November Poems & Pints reading by Paul Muldoon: 
Mark Strand’s poetry collections include Man and Camel, Blizzard of One, which won a Pulitzer Prize, Dark Harbor, and The Continuous Life. His awards include the Bollingen Prize, a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, an Edgar Allen Poe Prize from The Academy of American Poets, and a Rockefeller Foundation award, and fellowships from The Academy of American Poets, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation. Strand has served as Poet Laureate of the United States and as a former Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. He currently teaches English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York. Listen to the November Poems & Pints reading by Mark Strand: 
Edward Field's eleven books of poetry include After the Fall: Poems Old and New; A Full Heart, nominated for the Lenore Marshall Prize; and Stand Up, Friend, with Me, a Lamont Poetry Selection. His other honors include the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award, a Lambda Literary Award, and a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation. In addition to editing the anthologies A Geography of Poets and A New Geography of Poets, Field is the author of the nonfiction collection The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag, and Other Intimate Literary Portraits of the Bohemian Era and, with Neil Derrick, several fiction titles under the joint pseudonym of Bruce Elliot. Listen to the December Poems & Pints reading by Edward Field: 
Vijay Seshadri was a James Laughlin Award winner for The Long Meadow and Wild Kingdom. He has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, and was awarded The Paris Review's Bernard F. Conners Long Poem Prize and the MacDowell Colony's Fellowship for Distinguished Poetic Achievement. He teaches poetry and nonfiction writing at Sarah Lawrence College. Listen to the December Poems & Pints reading by Vijay Seshadri: 
Dana Goodyear’s poetry has appeared in several journals including The Paris Review, Yale Review, American Poetry Review and The New Yorker, where she is a senior editor and a frequent contributor. Listen to the February Poems & Pints reading by Dana Goodyear: 
Matthew Zapruder is a widely published poet and translator, as well as the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the poetry-publishing house Verse Press (now Wave Books). He wrote American Linden and The Pajamaist. Zapruder teaches at the New School, where he is the co-curator of the KGB Monday Night Poetry Reading Series; he also teaches at Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and was a Lannan Literary Fellow. Listen to the February Poems & Pints reading by Matthew Zapruder: 
Katy Lederer is the author of Winter Sex and Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers, and The Heaven-Sent Leaf. Her honors and awards include an Academy of American Poets Prize, fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and a Discover Great New Writers citation from Barnes & Noble's Discover Great New Writers Program. She currently serves as a Poetry Editor for Fence Magazine. Listen to the March Poems & Pints reading by Katy Lederer: 
D. Nurkse has written nine collections of poetry, including The Border Kingdom, Burnt Island, and The Fall. Nurkse has written extensively on human rights and has been involved with several organizations, including UNICEF. His awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and from the National Endowment for the Arts. Nurkse has taught graduate level courses at Brooklyn College and Stonecoast, and is currently at Sarah Lawrence College. He also taught for many years at Rikers Island Correctional Facility. Listen to the March Poems & Pints reading by D. Nurkse: 
Sophie Cabot Black’s books of poetry include The Misunderstanding of Nature and The Descent. She has been featured in several anthologies and journals and has received the Grolier Poetry Prize, the John Masefield Award, and the Norma Farber Book Award. Black has been a recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Fine Arts Work Center and the Bunting Institute. She currently teaches at Columbia University. Listen to the April Poems & Pints reading by Sophie Cabot Black: 
Sharon Olds has published eight volumes of poetry, including Satan Says and The Dead and the Living. She is the recipient of the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award, the Lamont Poetry Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was a New York State Poet Laureate. Olds teaches poetry workshops in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University and helps run the N.Y.U. workshop program at Goldwater Hospital. Listen to the April Poems & Pints reading by Sharon Olds: About the presenting partners:Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, has been a leading voice for arts and culture downtown and throughout Manhattan for 35 years, producing cultural events and promoting the arts through grants, services, advocacy, and cultural development programs. The Poetry Society of America, the nation's oldest poetry organization, was founded in 1910 for the purpose of creating a public forum for the advancement, enjoyment, and understanding of poetry. Through a diverse array of programs, initiatives, contests, and awards, the PSA works to build a larger audience for poetry, to encourage a deeper appreciation of the art, and to place poetry at the crossroads of American life. Fraunces Tavern is New York City’s oldest building, founded in 1762. The Tavern’s motto is “Continue the Celebration of Freedom” and it was where George Washington gave his farewell address to his officers as well as the site of the nation’s first State Department and first War Department.
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