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Vincent Katz and Mary Maxwell read at the Grolier Poetry Book Shop
April 17, 2015 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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Vincent Katz is a poet, translator, critic, and curator. He is the author of 12 books of poetry, including Swimming Home, just out from Nightboat Books. Katz is the author of The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius (Princeton, 2004), winner of the National Translation Award, and the editor of Black Mountain College: Experiment in Art (MIT, 2002; reprinted 2013). He was awarded a Rome Prize for literature and lives in New York City, where he curates the Readings in Contemporary Poetry series at Dia Chelsea.
Individual poems from Maxwell’s poetry collections originally appeared in Agni, The New Republic, Paris Review, Provincetown Arts, Salmagundi, Southern Review, Slate and Yale Review, among other publications. Her essays and reviews have appeared in literary periodicals such as Arion, Boston Review, Partisan Review, Raritan and ThreepennyReview. She has been a winner of the 1990 “Discovery”/The Nation Award; the recipient of a residential fellowship from the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France; and has also been a visiting artist and scholar at the American Academy in Rome.
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