Katonah Poetry Series To Host Award-Winning Poets Jessica Greenbaum and Daniel Brown

Sunday, September 27, 4:00 pm

Katonah Village Library, Katonah, NY

ONE DATE ONLY

On Sunday, September 27 at 4:00 pm, The Katonah Poetry Series kicks off its 2015-2016 season with two award-winning poets, Jessica Greenbaum and Daniel Brown. Jessica Greenbaum is the author of The Two Yvonnes (Princeton, 2012) and Inventing Difficulty (Silverfish Review Press, 2000), winner of the Gerald Cable Prize. As a social worker, she initiated a poetry workshop program with 9/11 first responders for the World Trade Center Health Program. Her work has been published in the New Yorker, Poetry and other journals, and she is Poetry Editor for upstreet literary magazine. In 2015 she was awarded an NEA fellowship grant in creative writing. Daniel Brown has also authored two poetry collections: What More? (Orchises Press, 2015) and Taking the Occasion (Ivan R. Dee, 2008), which won the New Criterion Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in such journals as Poetry, Partisan Review, and The New Criterion. His work has also been anthologized in Poetry 180, Fathers, and other volumes.

Admission is a $10 donation/adult, students free. Doors open at 3:30 pm for seating. A reception follows the readings.  For further information and to read interviews with the poets, please visit www.katonahpoetry.com. The Katonah Poetry Series can also be found on Facebook and Twitter.

The Katonah Village Library (914-232-3508) is located at 26 Bedford Road, within easy walking distance of the Katonah Metro-North train station. Street parking is available on Sundays.

The Katonah Poetry Series is funded in part by both The Jerome Levy Foundation and Poets & Writers, Inc. with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. KPS is a non-profit program under the auspices of the Katonah Village Library. The Katonah Poetry Series was founded in 1967. Past readers have included eight Poets Laureate of the United States and fifteen winners of the Pulitzer Prize.