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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Thurs Feb 16 Richard Marx Weinraub & Michael T. Young at Space on White NYC

come fill up the page ...



Thursday, February 16, 2011

from 7pm to 9pm

Poets on White

features

* MICHAEL T. YOUNG *

* RICHARD MARX WEINRAUB *

+

open mic

(Sign-up 6:45pm with Cindy Hochman)


@

[space on white]



81 White Street

(Tribeca, near Broadway)

New York, NY 10013

(212) 227-8600



Hosts: Evie Ivy & Cindy Hochman

$4.00 donation



Directions: J, N, R, Q, B and #6,1 train, A,C,E trains slightly longer walk

to Canal Street; Space on White is two blocks south of Canal Street


Related to the Marx Brothers through his mother, RICHARD MARX WEINRAUB was born in New York City in 1949; he was a Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico from 1987 through 2010. A book of his poetry entitled Wonder Bread Hill was published in 2002 by the University of Puerto Rico Press. His poetry has appeared in many journals including The Paris Review, Asheville Poetry Review, South Carolina Review, The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Green Mountains Review, North American Review, Measure, The Evansville Review, Slate, and River Styx. A Spanish translation of Wonder Bread Hill was recently published by Terranova Press. A chapbook of his poetry entitled Heavenly Bodies was published in 2008 by Poets Wear Prada Press, and a poem from it was nominated for a 2009 Pushcart Prize.



MICHAEL T. YOUNG's most recent collection, a chapbook titled "Living in the Counterpoint," is about to be released by Finishing Line Press. His previous books include the full-length "Transcriptions of Daylight" (Rattapallax Press, 2000), and the chapbook "Because the Wind Has Questions" (Somers Rocks Press, 1997). A full-length book, "The Beautiful Moment of Being Lost," will be published by Black Coffee Press in 2013. He has received both a Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and a William Stafford Award, and he has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His work has appeared in numerous journals including The Adirondack Review, Barrow Street, Iodine Poetry Journal, The Potomac Review, The Louisville Review, and The Same. His work is also included in the anthologies "Chance of a Ghost" (Helicon Nine Editions, 2005) and "Phoenix Rising" (T&W, 2004). He currently lives with his wife and children in Jersey City, New Jersey.

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