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Poetry Reading: Matthew Rohrer & Dorothea Lasky

As part of our series celebrating National Poetry Month, join us for an evening with poets Matthew Rohrer and Dorothea Lasky with readings focused on the theme of breathing.

Matthew Rohrer is the author of Destroyer and Preserver (Wave Books, 2011), A Plate of Chicken (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009), Rise Up (Wave Books, 2007) and A Green Light (Verse Press, 2004), which was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize. He is also the author ofSatellite (Verse Press, 2001), and co-author, with Joshua Beckman, ofNice Hat. Thanks. (Verse Press, 2002), and the audio CD AdventuresWhile Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He has appeared on NPR’s “All Things Considered” and “The Next Big Thing.” His first book, A Hummock in the Malookas was selected for the National Poetry Series by Mary Oliver in 1994. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches at NYU.

Dorothea Lasky is the author of two full-length collections of poetry:AWE (Wave Books, 2007) and Black Life (Wave Books, 2010). She is also the author of five chapbooks: Poetry is Not a Project (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010), Tourmaline (Transmission Press, 2008), The Hatmaker’s Wife (2006), Art (H_NGM_N Press, 2005), and Alphabets and Portraits(Anchorite Press, 2004). Born in St. Louis in 1978, her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Laurel Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Crowd, 6×6, Boston Review, Phoebe, Lungfull!, Octopus, Coconut, Small Town, Typo, Fou, and Carve, among others. She is a graduate of the MFA program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and also has been educated at Harvard University and Washington University. She has taught poetry at New York University, Fashion Institute of Technology, The New England Institute of Art, Heath Elementary School, and Munroe Center for the Arts and has done educational research at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Philadelphia Zoo, and Project Zero. Currently, she researches creativity and education at the University of Pennsylvania.

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