A poetry reading by Farnoosh Fathi, Sally Keith, and Amanda Nadelberg, hosted by Matthew Rohrer, followed by a reception/signing.

Books for sale courtesy of McNally Jackson.

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About the Poets:

Farnoosh Fathi is the author of the poetry collections Great Guns (Canarium 2013) and Granny Cloud (NYRB Poets 2024), editor of Joan Murray: Drafts, Fragments, and Poems (NYRB Poets 2018), and founder of the Young Artists Language and Devotion Alliance (YALDA). She lives and teaches in New York.

Sally Keith is the author of Two of Everything, as well as four previous collections of poetry, including River House and The Fact of the Matter. Recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 2016, she is a member of the MFA faculty at George Mason University and lives in Fairfax, Virginia.

Amanda Nadelberg is the author of three books of poetry: Isa the Truck Named Isadore, Bright Brave Phenomena, and Songs from a Mountain. A graduate of Carleton College and The University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop — where she received Truman Capote and Teaching-Writing Fellowships — she returned to Iowa in 2017 and 2019 to be an Associate Visiting Professor. She has received fellowships from Yaddo and The Fund for Poetry.  She serves on the board of Transit Books, as an advisor to The Song Cave, and is the founder of Culture Forms. She lives in Oakland, CA.

Matthew Rohrer was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and raised in Oklahoma. He earned his MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His first collection, A Hummock in the Malookas (1995), was selected by Mary Oliver for the National Poetry Series. He is the author of Satellite (2001); A Green Light (2004); Rise Up (2007); They All Seemed Asleep (2008); A Plate of Chicken (2009); Destroyer and Preserver (2011); The Others (2017), winner of the Believer Book Award; and Army of Giants (Wave Books, 2024). He has also collaborated with poet Joshua Beckman on Nice Hat. Thanks (2002) and the audio CD Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty (2004).

Rohrer’s poems are known for their surreal imagery, imagination, and sharp humor. His book A Green Light was short-listed for the 2005 Griffin International Poetry Prize; the judges noted that Rohrer’s poems “present us the sideways view of the world of a young American not able to assume the mantle of hero.” The recipient of a Pushcart Prize, Rohrer has published his work in The New Young American Poets: An Anthology (2000), The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology (2000), and Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (2006).Rohrer teaches writing at New York University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.