[Brooklyn, NY]

Michael Ruby
February 13, 2016, 12:45 pm
at Unnameable Books

reading at Unnameable Books as part of the three-day Boog City 9.5 festival over Presidents Day weekend. Michael Ruby is a poet and journalist who lives in Brooklyn. He's the author of two poetry books, At an Intersection and Window on the City, and the editor of Washtenaw County Jail and Other Writings by David Herfort. He’s currently working on several new books of poetry: The Mouth of the Bay, based on pre-Socratic propositions; Close Your Eyes, transcriptions of what he sees with his eyes closed; and American Songbook and The Star-Spangled Banner, two related works using lyrics from 20th century American popular songs and the national anthem. He’s also slowly writing a historical memoir about the families of his eight great-grandparents in Eastern European shtetls and the U.S. between 1850 and 1950. A graduate of Harvard College and Brown University’s writing program, he works as a copy editor at The Wall Street Journal and lives with his wife and three daughters in Park Slope.