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Join ICP and the Poetry Society of America for a lively evening of poetry in conjunction with the Zoe Strauss: 10 Years exhibition. Guest poets include: Cynthia Cruz, Alex Dimitrov, Wayne Koestenbaum, and Frank Sherlock. The evening will be moderated by Alice Quinn, Executive Director, Poetry Society of America. A reception will immediately follow the event.
Cynthia Cruz's poems have been published in The New Yorker, Paris Review, Boston Review, American Poetry Review, and others. She is the author of RUIN (Alice James Book) and The Glimmering Room (Four Way Books, 2012). Her third collection of poetry, Wunderkammer, is forthcoming in 2014. Cruz has received fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony as well as a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Alex Dimitrov is the author of Begging for It (Four Way Books, 2013) and American Boys (Floating Wolf Quarterly, 2012). His internet-based poetry project Night Call is forthcoming.
Wayne Koestenbaum's six books of poetry include Blue Stranger with Mosaic Background and Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films. He has also published nine nonfiction books including his cult classic, The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire, which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award in 1993. He is a distinguished professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Alice Quinn is executive director of the Poetry Society of America and an adjunct professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of the Arts. She was poetry editor at The New Yorker and at Alfred A. Knopf, Publishers. Quinn has written for Artforum, the Canadian National Post, The Forward, Poetry Ireland, The New Yorker, and The New Yorker Online, and is currently at work editing the journals and notebooks of Elizabeth Bishop.
Frank Sherlock is the author of Space Between These Lines Not Dedicated (Ixnay Press), forthcoming in spring 2014. His other books include Neighbor Ballads (Albion Books), Over Here (Factory School), and a collaboration with Brett Evans entitled Ready-to-Eat Individual (Lavender Ink Books). Sherlock is a 2013 Pew Fellow in the Arts for literature.
Support for public programs in association with Zoe Strauss: 10 Years is generously provided by Documentary Arts, Inc. and Art Happens.
Zoe Strauss: 10 Years was organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art with support from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative. The ICP presentation is supported by the ICP Exhibitions Committee and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
