Poetry Reading at Grolier Poetry Book Shop Edwin Frank and Geoffrey O’Brien

Edwin Frank is the editor of NYRB Classics. His Snake Train: Poems 1984-2013will be published in early 2015.   He was born in Boulder, Colorado, in 1960 and educated at Harvard and Columbia University. He has published in The New York Review of Books and The Nation, among other journals, and is the author of two books of poetry,The Further Adventures of Pinocchio and Stack. Currently he is at work on a history of the twentieth-century novel.

Geoffrey O’Brien is an American poet, editor, book and film critic, translator, and cultural historian. In 1992, he joined the staff of the Library of America as Executive Editor, becoming Editor-in-Chief in 1998.   In a Mist is Geoffrey O’Brien’s seventh collection of poems. It brings together scenes recovered from dream or experience, transmuted fragments of myth, passages retrieved from lost libraries and recollected conversations, the story lines of imaginary films, snapshots of lake and street corner and darkened construction site, the inventions of sleeplessness, transcriptions of chime tones and birdsong, and the memory of faces.