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The Library celebrates National Poetry Month with contrasting readings by three acclaimed contemporary poets.
Jan Grossman’s poetry has appeared in such journals as Poetry East, Poet Lore, and U.S. 1 Worksheets. A consultant in the arts and humanities, she served for many years as fiction and poetry reviewer for an international Rockefeller Foundation residency program.
Louis Phillips is a poet, playwright, and short-story writer. He has three short story collections: A Dream of Countries Where No One Dare Live, The Bus to the Moon, and The Woman Who Wrote King Lear and Other Stories. His humor pieces have appeared in Family Circle, Smithsonian, the New York Times op-ed page, and many other publications. His most recent book is Fireworks in Some Particulars (Fort Schuyler Press), a collection of poems, short prose, and a full-length play. He teaches creative writing at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
David Yezzi’s poetry collections include Azores (2008) and The Hidden Model (2003), and his criticism and poetry have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, and Best American Poetry. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, Yezzi is Executive Editor of The New Criterion. His libretto for a chamber opera by composer David Conte, Firebird Motel, premiered in 2003 and was released on CD by Arsis (2007).
