Three Rooms Press: Poet Ben Mazer slated for Cornelia St. Cafe reading April 3

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Poet Ben Mazer slated for Cornelia St. Cafe reading April 3

This Friday at Cornelia St. Cafe, Three Rooms Press and Son of a Pony proudly present featured poet Ben Mazer, who's work has been lauded by MTV poet laureate John Ashberry: "To read [Mazer] is to follow him along a dreamlike corridor where everything is beautiful and nothing is as it seems." Kat Georges hosts the event.

Ben Mazer's poems have appeared in Fulcrum, Harvard Review, Stand, Jacket, Verse and many other international periodicals. He is the author of The Foundations of Poetry Mathematics (Cannibal Books). He is the editor of Landis Everson's Everything Preserved: Poems 1955-2005 (Graywolf Press), which won the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Foundation, and a contributing editor to Fulcrum: An Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics.

Details:

Son of a Pony Poetry Reading Series
Friday, April 3, 2009, 6 pm
Feature: Ben Mazer
Host: Kat Georges
Open reading before the feature
Admission: $7 (includes free drink)

Arrive early to sign up for the open reading before the feature!

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