CORNELIA STREET CAFÉ

www.corneliastreetcafe.com

 July, 14, Wednesday, 6-8 pm

INTERCULTURAL POETRY SERIES

www.interpoezia.net

Hosted by Andrey Gritsman

 Present poets:

Amanda Jeremin Harris

Christophe Brunski

Liviu Georgescu

                                    Stanley Barkan

                                                Anna Frajlich

                                                            Vasyl Makhno

Amanda Jeremin Harris, poet and editor of Richmond Review (UK), she teaches undergraduate English.  Christophe Brunski is the author of 5 books of fiction and poetry in English, French, and Swedish. He completed a MA of Language and Culture from Linkping University, Sweden, in 2003, and now resides in Northampton, MA. (www.bluecathexis.net ).  Liviu Georgescu is a Romanian-American poet,  fiction writer and physician, recipient of several Romanian literary awards.  Stanley Barkan, New York poet, translator and publisher. He is the founder and publisher of Cross-Cultural Communications.  Anna Frajlich, Polish-American poet and essayist, author of several books. She teaches at Columbia University.  Vasyl Makhno, leading Ukrainian-American poet, translated into several languages. He lives in New York and works at the Shevchenko Cultural Foundation.

Programs Curator: poet Angelo Verga.

Cornelia Street, betw.Bleecker and 4^th in the Village.

http://www.poetz.com

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Wednesday, September 8, 6-8 pm

CORNELIA STREET CAFÉ

www.corneliastreetcafe.com

Cornelia St. off Bleeker

INTERCULTURAL POETRY SERIES

Hosted by Andrey Gritsman

www.interpoezia.net

Season Opening!

Translations of Flemish Poetry by Laure-Anne Bosselaar

and new poems by Laure-Anne Bosselaar and Kurt Brown

 http://www.lexthomas.com/chezdesiree/openmike/kurtbrown/

Kurt Brown was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up on Long Island and in Connecticut where he attended the University of Connecticut.  He spent many years in Aspen, Colorado where he founded the Aspen Writers' Conference and edited the Aspen Anthology.  His poems have appeared in many periodicals, including Ontario Review, Massachusetts Review, Crazyhorse, and Southern Poetry Review. 

http://www.laureannebosselaar.com/

Laure-Anne Bosselaar

Laure-Anne Bosselaar grew up in Belgium and moved to the United States in 1987. She is the author of Small Gods of Grief, (BOA Editions, 2001) which won the Isabella Gardner Prize for Poetry, and The Hour Between Dog and Wolf, (1997). Her poems have also appeared in Ploughshares, The Washington Post, AGNI, and Harvard Review, as well as in numerous anthologies. As an anthologist, she edited Outsiders, Poems About Rebels, Exiles and Renegades and Urban Nature: Poems about Wildlife in the City, and co-edited Night Out: Poems about Hotels, Motels, Restaurants and Bars with her husband, poet Kurt Brown. Her next anthology, Never Before: Poems about First Experiences, will be published by Four Way Books in 2004. Fluent in four languages, she has published poems in French and Flemish and translates American poetry into French and Dutch poetry into English.

Programs Curator: Angelo Verga