[Yale-readings] 1-15: Elisa Gabbert, Paul Legault, and Karen Garthe

[Kuhl, Nancy]

Join us at Detritus (71 Orange St, New Haven) on Saturday 1/15 for readings by three tremendous poets: Elisa Gabbert, Paul Legault, and Karen Garthe. Music and mood calibration provided by Shaki Presents. This event is brought to you by Detritus, with the curatorial assistance of Jason Labbe.

A little about the readers...

Karen Garthe' s work appears in The Best of Fence, New American Writing, Barrow Street, Lana Turner, Chicago Review, Aufgabe, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Court Green, American Letters & Commentary, and elsewhere. Her first book of poems, Frayed Escort, was selected by Cal Bedient for the 2005 Colorado Prize, and her new collection, The Banjo Clock, is forthcoming from the University of California Press in 2012. She lives in New York City and works for Wings World Quest, a foundation that promotes women in science and exploration.

http://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/books/frayed-escort/


Paul Legault's poems have been published in Denver Quarterly, Maggy, Supermachine, and other journals. He is the co-founder and co-editor of the translation journal Telephone. His first book, The Madeleine Poems, is just out from Omnidawn. He lives in Brooklyn with his husband Orion Jenkins and works at the Academy of American Poets.

http://internet-paul-legault.blogspot.com/
http://www.omnidawn.com/legault/index.htm


Elisa Gabbert is the poetry editor of Absent and the author of The French Exit (Birds, LLC) and Thanks for Sending the Engine (Kitchen Press). Her poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, The Laurel Review, Pleiades, Salt Hill, and Sentence, among other journals, and her nonfiction has appeared in Mantis, Open Letters Monthly, and The Monkey & The Wrench: Essays into Contemporary Poetics. She currently lives in Boston, works at a software startup, and blogs at The French Exit.

http://www.birdsllc.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=52%3Athe-french-exit&catid=35%3Abooks&Itemid=18

http://thefrenchexit.blogspot.com/


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