On Oct 21, KGB Bar Monday Night Poetry Series presents poets Joanna Fuhrman, Rae Artmantrout, and Jerome Sala. Doors will open at 7 PM, and the reading will begin at 7:30 PM. The event will be held on the second floor. Not wheelchair accessible. Must be 21+ to attend.

About the Poets:

Joanna Fuhrman is the author of six books of poetry, To a New Era (Hanging Loose Press 2021), The Year of Yellow Butterflies (Hanging Loose Press 2015), Pageant (Alice James Books 2009), Moraine (Hanging Loose Press 2006), Ugh Ugh Ocean (Hanging Loose Press 2006) and Freud in Brooklyn (Hanging Loose Press 2000). Her seventh book Data Mind, a collection of prose poems about the internet, is forthcoming from Curbstone/Northwestern University Press in October 2024.  She is a graduate of the University of Washington’s MFA program, which awarded her the Academy of American Poets Prize and the Joan Grayson Award. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including The Believer, The Baffler, Fence, Conduit, and American Letters and Commentary, Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prize anthology and The Slowdown podcast as well as on the Poetry Foundation and the Academy of American Poets (poem-a-day) websites, and in other anthologies. Her essays on teaching poetry appear regularly in Teachers & Writers Magazine. She also creates poetry videos that are on her own Vimeo site and in literary journals including Posit, Triquarterly, Moving Poems Journal, Fence Digital and Requited. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband the playwright Robert Kerr. In 2022, she became a co-editor of Hanging Loose Press.

Rae Armantrout has published numerous books of poetry, including Wobble (Wesleyan University Press, 2018), which was a finalist for the National Book Award; Partly: New and Selected Poems, 2001–2015 (Wesleyan University Press, 2016); Itself (Wesleyan University Press, 2015); Versed (Wesleyan University Press, 2009), which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2010; Next Life (Wesleyan University Press, 2007), selected by the New York Times as one of the most notable books of 2007; Up to Speed (Wesleyan University Press, 2004), a finalist for the PEN Center USA Award in Poetry; Veil: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 2001), also a finalist for the PEN Center USA Award; Made To Seem (Sun & Moon Press, 1995); and The Invention of Hunger (Tuumba Press, 1979). Armantrout is also the author of the prose memoir True, which was published by Atelos in 1998. Her poetry has been widely anthologized, appearing in Postmodern American Poetry (W. W. Norton, 2013), edited by Paul Hoover; American Women Poets of the 21st Century (Wesleyan University Press, 2002), edited by Claudia Rankine and Juliana Spahr; Poems for the Millennium, Vol. 2 (University of California Press, 1998), edited by Pierre Joris and Jerome Rothenberg; In The American Tree: Language, Realism, Poetry (National Poetry Foundation, 1986), edited by Ronald Silliman; and several editions of The Best American Poetry. Armantrout is a professor emerita at the University of California, San Diego, where she has taught writing for almost twenty years.

Jerome Sala is the author of How Much? New and Selected Poems (NYQ Books) and other collections of poetry, including Corporations Are People Too! (NYQ Books, 2017) and The Cheapskates (Lunar Chandelier Press, 2014). His other books include Look Slimmer Instantly (Soft Skull Press, 2005), Raw Deal: New and Selected Poems (Jensen/Daniels, 1994), The Trip (The Highlander Press, 1987), I Am Not a Juvenile Delinquent (STARE Press, 1985), and Spaz Attack (STARE Press, 1980). Widely published, his work appears in Pathetic Literature (Grove Atlantic) and two editions of Best American Poetry (Scribners). He lives in New York with his wife, poet Elaine Equi.

The KGB Monday Night Poetry Reading Series, now in its 27th year, brings together nationally recognized, award winning, established and emerging poets to New York and gives them a mic in the legendary KGB Bar. We aim to provide New York audiences with the best, most compelling, accomplished, diverse, and original poets representative of the current American climate. Originally created by David Lehman and Star Black, the series is now hosted by John Deming, Jada Gordon, Tyler Allen Penny, and Susan Lewis.