events—may 20 & 21 in Manhattan & Brooklyn

Evan Laurence, one of the artists submitted this info.
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Theater for the New City

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Reading
7:30pm

May 20-Amy Berkowitz, Amy Lemmon and Carly Sachs. Amy Berkowitz lives in Brooklyn. Her poems have appeared in Coconut Poetry, Shampoo Poetry and (sic) Journal. Her first book is called Instructions for Hamsters. She will be reading with Amy Lemmon, author of the poetry collections, Fine Motor (Sow’s Ear Poetry Press, 2008) and Saint Nobody (Red Hen Press, 2009). Her poems and essays have appeared in Rolling Stone, Verse, Prairie Schooner, New letters, Barrow Street, Cincinnati Review and other magazines. Selections from ABBA: The Poems, a sequence written in collaboration with Denise Duhamel, appear in several literary magazines, and online at Lafovea.org. Amy is poetry editor of the online literary magazine, Ducts.org and an Associate Professor in the English and Speech Department at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology. Also reading is Carly Sachs, who holds an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School University. She has taught creative writing at George Washington University, among other places. Her book of poems, The Steam Sequence, won the 2006 Washington Writers’ Publishing House Publishing Prize, and she is the editor of an anthology of poems, The Why and Later. (Deep Cleveland Press, 2007).

3 6 5 5 th Avenue
Park Slope, Bklyn
F/R Train to 4th Avenue/9th Street (btwn 5th and 6th St.)
W W W . T H E P E R C H C A F E . C O M

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also at The Perch Cafe
Revised Performance Dates for


Wednesday
May 28 and June 11
6pm

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The Times Center