New Issues Poets Read in New York City

Happy Small Press Month! If you're on the East Coast, take a trip to the city for two great poetry readings in New York City.

Sunday, March 29th, 6 pm
New Issues Poets Reading
Cornelia Street Cafe, 29 Cornelia Street, NYC

Sandra Beasley - Theories of Falling
Myronn Hardy - Approaching the Center - The Headless Saints
Alexander Long - Vigil
Elaine Sexton - Sleuth - Causeway
Matthew Thorburn - Subject to Change

McNally Jackson Features New Issues in their Indie Press Series:

Tuesday, March 31st, 7 pm
New Issues Poets/Indie Press Series - McNally Jackson, 52 Prince Street, NYC

Sandra Beasley - Theories of Falling
Myronn Hardy - Approaching the Center - The Headless Saints
Alexander Long - Vigil
Martha Rhodes - Perfect Disappearance
Elaine Sexton - Sleuth - Causeway

Reading by Winners of the 2008 Witter Bynner Poetry Prize

Matthew Thorburn (Subject to Change, New Issues) and Monica Youn, winners of the 2008 Witter Bynner poetry fellowships from the Library of Congress, will give a poetry reading in the Carol Huxley Theater in the New York State Museum on Friday, October 24, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.

The event, sponsored by the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress, the New York Center for the Book, and the New York State Library, is free and open to the public. A reception will follow the reading.

Questions? Visit NY Literary Events Calendar or contact Pamela McLaughlin of New York Center for the Book at pwmclaug@syr.edu.

Matthew Thorburn on "The Poet and the Poem"

Check out the Library of Congress website for an interview/reading with Matthew Thorburn, author of Subject to Change. The Poet and the Poem is now online. Scroll down the page to find the link to his webcast.

Matthew Thorburn Wins Witter Bynner Fellowship

Poet Laureate Charles Simic has chosen New Issues poet Matthew Thorburn for the 2008 Witter Bynner Fellowship and will introduce him at a reading on March 6 at the Library of Congress. The reading will be held at 6:45 p.m. on Thursday, March 6, in the Montpelier Room of the James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C. If you're in the area, everyone is welcome.

Thorburn, of New York City, is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the MFA program at The New School. He is the author of Subject to Change (New Issues, 2004) and his poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, Seneca Review, Prairie Schooner and Indiana Review. His other honors include a fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Mississippi Review Prize.

Matthew Thorburn Reading in NY

Matthew Thorburn, author of of Subject to Change will be reading with poet Claudia Carlson at Book Culture, 112th Street in New York. The poetry reading will be on Tuesday, December 11, at 7 p.m. For more information, visit the Book Culture website: www.bookculture.com