The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s in the Bowery

Presented by The Poetry Project in association with The Village Trip

Wednesday, September 25, 2019 at 6.30PM
St. Mark’s in the Bowery, 131 E 10th St, NY, NY 10003

The Village Trip festival honors the village tradition of public poetry reading with a special night at the storied St. Mark’s in the Bowery. Since 1966 the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s has been a continuation of the various coffeehouse readings that had flourished on the Lower East Side in the 1950s and 60s. St. Mark’s has long been a center of activism serving as a base for poet Allen Ginsberg, a communications center for the Black Panthers and The Young Lords, and as a center for the arts attracting Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, and many others.

Kate Colby

Kate Colby is the author of six books of poetry, including Fruitlands (2006) – winner of the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award. Other books include Unbecoming Behavior (2008), and I Mean (2015). She has received fellowships from the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts and Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room. Her work has been featured at the Beauport Sleeper-McCann, de Cordova, Isabella Stewart Gardner and RISD museums. Her poems and essays have appeared in Bennington Review, Columbia Poetry Review, PEN America, The Rumpus, Verse and the DIA Readings in Contemporary Poetry Anthology, among other journals and anthologies

Liz Howard

Liz Howard was born and raised in northern Ontario on Treaty 9 territory. Her debut collection, Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent (McClelland & Stewart, 2015), won the Griffin Poetry Prize. She received an Honours Bachelor of Science with High Distinction from the University of Toronto. Her poetry has appeared in Canadian literary journals such as The Capilano Review, The Puritan, and Matrix Magazine. Recently Liz completed an MFA in Creative Writing course through the University of Guelph.