Location
Love & Luxe
Time
8:30 - 9:30 pm
New words from new works.
Dilruba Ahmed’s book, Dhaka Dust (Graywolf, 2011), won the 2010 Bakeless Prize for poetry. She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College. dilrubaahmed.com
Derek Mong is the author of Other Romes (Saturnalia Books, 2011). His poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, and elsewhere. derekmong.com
Ingrid Browning Moody’s chapbook, Learning About Fire, won the Robert Phillips Poetry Prize and will be published this fall. She teaches writing at UC Santa Cruz.
You can print and post a poem by Lisa Allen Ortiz by visiting broadsided.com in October. Her chapbook Turns Out was published earlier this year.
Joshua Rivkin’s poems have appeared in Southern Review, Kenyon Review, and Best New Poets 2010. A former Stegner Fellow in Poetry, he lives in Los Angeles.
Melissa Stein’s poetry collection Rough Honey won the 2010 APR/Honickman First Book Prize. She is a freelance editor and writer in San Francisco.
