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The powerHouse Arena invites you to a magazine launch for

American Poet:
Issue 42

with readings by

Yusef Komunyakaa, Sandra Beasley, and Thomas Sayers Ellis

Thursday, April 26, 7–9 pm
Drinks will be served

The powerHouse Arena · 37 Main Street (corner of Water & Main St.) · DUMBO, Brooklyn
For more information, please call 718.666.3049
rsvp: rsvp@powerHouseArena.com

Join the Academy of American Poets on Poem in Your Pocket Day to celebrate the launch of the newly redesigned American Poet, the bi-annual journal of the Academy of American Poets. Yusef Komunyakaa, Sandra Beasley, and Thomas Sayers Ellis will read from their work. Complimentary copies of American Poet will be available for attendees.

About the readers:

Thomas Sayers Ellis is, most recently, the author of Skin, Inc., (Graywolf Press, 2010). His collection The Maverick Room (2005), won the John C. Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares. Ellis is the recipient of a Mrs. Giles Whiting Writers' Award, and his poems and photographs have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. He is an assistant professor of Writing at Sarah Lawrence College and a faculty member of The Lesley University low-residency M.F.A Program. Ellis spends his summers in Washington, D.C. working on The Go-Go Book: People in the Pocket in Washington, D.C. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Sandra Beasley is the author of I Was the Jukebox (W.W. Norton, 2010), winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Theories of Falling (2008), winner of the New Issues Poetry Prize. Other honors for her work include selection for the 2010 Best American Poetry, the 2010 University of Mississippi Summer Poet in Residence position, a DCCAH Artist Fellowship, the Friends of Literature Prize from the Poetry Foundation, and the Maureen Egen Exchange Award from Poets & Writers. Her most recent book is Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life (Crown, 2011), a memoir and cultural history of food allergy. She lives in Washington, D.C.

Yusef Komunyakaa is a former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and the author of thirteen books of poetry, including The Chameleon Couch (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2012), Warhorses (2009), Taboo (2006), and Neon Vernacular (1993), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize and the Kingsley Tufts Award. He has also written prose on the subject of jazz and blues music and several dramatic works. Among his many honors, Komunyakaa was selected as the Wallace Stevens Award recipient for 2011. He teaches at New York University.



For more information, please contact Lena Valencia, Events Coordinator:
powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
tel: 718.666.3049 fax: 212.366.5247 email: lena@powerHouseArena.com