[New York, NY]

The New International: Working Poets of the World, Unite!
September 24, 2016, 7:00 pm
at KGB Bar

UDP poet Laura Sims will be joined by Amy King, Rickey Laurentiis, Alex Bernstein, Anmarie Soucie, Sasha Smith, Rashida Williams, & Nicholas Goodly for a reading. Themes include change, transformation, peace, and empowerment through the power of spoken word, in every language, every culture, every time zone. Laura Sims is the author of My god is this a man, Stranger, and Practice, Restraint (all from Fence Books), Staying Alive (UDP, 2016), and five chapbooks of poetry. She edited Fare Forward: Letters from David Markson (powerHouse Books), a book of her correspondence with the celebrated experimental novelist. Sims has been a featured writer for the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet blog, and has been a co-editor of Instance Press since 2009. She teaches literature and creative writing at NYU-SPS and lives with her family in Brooklyn. Free admission and open bar for the first hour. More info here.