Mitch Highfill, Katy Lederer
The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, Wednesday, January 7, 2009 at 8pm
Mitch Highfill; Katy Lederer
Mitch Highfill is the author of 7 books of poetry, including Moth Light (Abraham Lincoln) and REBIS (Open Mouth). His work has appeared in OCHO & Critiphoria. Katy Lederer is the author of the poetry collections, Winter Sex (Verse Press, 2002) and The Heaven-Sent Leaf (BOA Editions, 2008) as well as the memoir Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers (Crown, 2003), which Publishers Weekly included on its list of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2003 and Esquire Magazine named one of its eight Best Books of the Year 2003. Educated at the University of California at Berkeley and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow, Katy serves as a Poetry Editor of Fence Magazine. For many years, she edited her own journal, Explosive, in a limited edition of 300 with hand-printed covers by the artist David Larsen. (lampbane)… (more)
Mitch Highfill is the author of 7 books of poetry, including Moth Light (Abraham Lincoln) and REBIS (Open Mouth). His work has appeared in OCHO & Critiphoria. Katy Lederer is the author of the poetry collections, Winter Sex (Verse Press, 2002) and The Heaven-Sent Leaf (BOA Editions, 2008) as well as the memoir Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers (Crown, 2003), which Publishers Weekly included on its list of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2003 and Esquire Magazine named one of its eight Best Books of the Year 2003. Educated at the University of California at Berkeley and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow, Katy serves as a Poetry Editor of Fence Magazine. For many years, she edited her own journal, Explosive, in a limited edition of 300 with hand-printed covers by the artist David Larsen. (lampbane)… (more)