Showing posts with label Salon 2008. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Salon 2008. Show all posts

Thursday, April 3, 2008

SAVE THE DATE! Poetry Reading, May 2: Edwin Frank, Susan Kaplan, Sarah Browning



Poets Edwin Frank, Susan Kaplan, and Sarah Browning will read from their work on May 2 at 7:00 P.M., the last evening of the 2008 PS 29 Literary Salons. In case you have missed the last evenings, the events, which take place at the school, showcase fiction, non-fiction, and poetry by new and established authors from Brooklyn and beyond. The $5 admission includes babysitting and refreshments. Discussion and booksales by local book seller, Bookcourt, follow. On-line ticketing will soon be available for this event!

Edwin Frank is the author of two chapbooks, Stack and The Further Adventures of Pinocchio, and his work has been published in Agni, Bomb, Epiphany, The New York Review of Books, and Threepenny Review. He is the editor of the New York Review Books Classic series.

Susan Kaplan is an award-winning poet and an attorney. Her work has appeared Poetry, Pegasus, Boulevard, Another Chicago Magazine, and the New Orleans Review, among others. She has won awards from the American Academy of Poets and the Poetry Society of America.

Sarah Browning is the director of the Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation and Witness. She’s the author of Whiskey in the Garden of Eden, and coeditor of D.C. Poets Against the War: An Anthology. A recipient of an artist fellowship from the D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities and a Creative Communities Initiative grant, Browning hosts the Sunday Kind of Love poetry series in Washington, D.C.

For more information, please contact event organizer, Julia Lichtblau, 917-547-4721.

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

PS 29 Salon 2008 Literary Series Presents Acclaimed Critic Lee Siegel


The PS 29 Salon 2008 Literary Series gets underway on Friday, January 25th at 7:00 PM with critic Lee Siegel, who will read from his new book, Against The Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. The evening will be moderated by Edwin Frank, editor, New York Review of Books. There will be a discussion, as well as books for sale. Babysitting and refreshments provided! Admission: $5.

Lee Siegel is a senior editor at The New Republic, author of the essay collection Falling Upwards, and winner of the 2002 National Magazine Award for Reviews and Criticism.

About Against the Machine:
From the author hailed by the New York Times Book Review for his “drive-by brilliance” and dubbed by the New York Times Magazine as “one of the country’s most eloquent and acid-tongued critics” comes a ruthless challenge to the conventional wisdom about the most consequential cultural development of our time: the Internet.

Want to read the book before the event? Buy it via Amazon and 6-7 percent goes to the PS 29 PTA!