Poetry New York

Saturday, April 19, 4:00 PM
Brooklyn Public Library
Central Library, Dweck Center

Saturday Poetry Salon: John Ashbery + Marcella Durand

Newly appointed Poet Laureate of MTV, John Ashbery is one of the most influential and widely read contemporary poets. He is the author of over 20 books of poetry, prose, and art criticism and his most recent collections are A Worldly Country and Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems. Marcella Durand holds an MFA in Poetry from Brooklyn College, where she studied with Allen Ginsberg. She is the author of the following books and chapbooks: The Anatomy of Oil, Western Capital Rhapsodies, City of Ports, and Lapsus Linguae. This program is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.