Live Poetry Reading: Debora Kuan & Jeffrey McDaniel

Wednesday, July 26 @ 7:oopm ET

Live at Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street

And on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEsfuysqj8sGdfVuBztAiNMRw-_Z7J809Xm

Debora Kuan is the author of three poetry collections XING (Saturnalia Books), Lunch Portraits (Brooklyn Arts Press), and the forthcoming Women on the Moon (The Word Works). She has been awarded a U.S. Fulbright creative writing fellowship (Taiwan), University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop Graduate Merit Fellowship, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference work-study scholarship, multiple Pushcart Prize nominations, the NELLE Three Sisters Award, and residencies at Yaddo, Macdowell, and the Santa Fe Art Institute. Her work has appeared in Poetry, The New Republic, Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Boston Review, The Baffler, Fence, The Iowa Review, ZYZZYVA, and other publications. Currently, she lives in Wallingford, CT, where she is poet laureate and works remotely for the MIT Press.

Jeffrey McDaniel is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Thin Ice Olympics (Write Bloody, 2022) Other books include: Holiday in the Islands of Grief (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020), Chapel of Inadvertent Joy (Pittsburgh, 2013), The Endarkenment (Pittsburgh, 2008), The Splinter Factory (Manic D Press, 2002), The Forgiveness Parade (Manic D, 1998), and Alibi School (Manic D, 1995). McDaniel’s poems have appeared in numerous places, including The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, The New York Times, and Best American Poetry 1994, 2010, and 2019. Recipient of an NEA fellowship, he teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.

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