Readings in Contemporary Poetry: Kostas Anagnopoulos and Charles North
Where: Dia Art Foundation
535 W. 22nd St.
212-989-5566 Price: $10
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Kostas Anagnopoulos
Kostas Anagnopoulos was born and raised on the West Side of Chicago. His mother was a seamstress and his father was the editor of a Greek-American leftist newspaper. Anagnopoulos is the founder and editor of Insurance Editions. He has published six chapbooks and a book titled Moving Blanket (New York: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010). Insurance Editions will publish What Works, his latest chapbook, in early 2016. He lives in Jackson Heights, New York, with his husband and daughter.
Charles North
Charles North is the author of fifteen books of poems and prose, including What It Is Like: New and Selected Poems (New York: Turtle Point Press; New York: Hanging Loose Press, 2011), which headed David Orr’s “Truth and Beauty: 2011’s Best American Poetry” list for National Public Radio. With James Schuyler, he edited Broadway: A Poets and Painters Anthology (Putnam Valley, N.Y.: Swollen Magpie, 1979) and Broadway 2: A Poets and Painters Anthology (New York: Hanging Loose Press, 1989). He has also published collaborative works with artists and other poets, and has received numerous awards, including two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, four Fund for Poetry awards, a Poets Foundation award, and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant. North has been Poet-in-Residence at Pace University, New York, since 1997. He lives and works in New York.
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