Reading by Spuyten Duyvil Authors Lewis Warsh & Michael Forstrom

Tuesday, September 23, 2014
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
KGB Bar
85 E. 4th Street
Manhattan

Lewis Warsh is the author of over thirty volumes of poetry, fiction and autobiography, most recently One Foot Out the Door: Collected Stories (Spuyten Duyvil, 2014), A Place in the Sun (Spuyten Duyvil, 2010) and Inseparable: Poems 1995-2005 (Granary Books, 2008). He is coeditor of The Angel Hair Anthology and editor and publisher of United Artists Books. 

Warsh's fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous anthologies, including The Best American Poetry (1997, 2002, 2003) . He is recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and The Fund for Poetry. He has also received an Editor’s Fellowship Award from the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines, and the James Shestack prize from The American Poetry Review. Mimeo Mimeo #7 (2012) featured his poetry, fiction and collages, and a bibliography of his work as an editor and publisher. He has taught at Naropa University, The Poetry Project, and SUNY Albany. He currently teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at Long Island University (Brooklyn). Alien Abduction, a new book of poems, is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse 
in 2015.

Michael Forstrom was born in Sweden and raised in England and Canada before the family settled outside Minneapolis, MN. As an adult, he has lived in various places in the U.S., as well as in England and Kenya, and earned degrees from Carleton College, The New School for Social Research, and 
SUNY Buffalo. For the last ten years, he has lived outside New Haven, CT and worked at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale. He has published film reviews, short fiction, and poetry, including two pamphlets, the elusive object (Phylum Press) and The Icon Painter. In 2012, he held residencies at VSC and Millay Colony where he completed 
a mixed-genre piece and embarked on a new work exploring the effects of dispersal, illness, and telecommunications on the contemporary family. Four Seasons (Spuyten Duyvil, 20140 is his first novella.