A Possible Epic of Care: Poetry Reading with Andrei Codrescu and Vincent Katz
Please join us for another special evening of poetry at the Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation. Andrei Codrescu and Vincent Katz, two renowned poets, will be reading from their new collaborative poem A Possible Epic of Care, published by Black Widow Press. The poets will be introduced by curator and Program Director, Alex Paul Chapin, and the reading will be followed by a reception and book signing.
Vincent Katz, born in New York, is known for his work as a poet, critic, curator, and translator. He is the author of fourteen books of poetry, including Broadway for Paul (Alfred A. Knopf, 2020), Southness (Lunar Chandelier Press, 2016), Swimming Home (Nightboat Books, 2015), Understanding Objects (Hard Press, 2000), Cabal of Zealots (Hanuman Books, 1988), and co-author, with Anne Waldman, of Fantastic Caryatids (BlazeVOX Press, 2017). He is the author of The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius, which received the National Translation Award from the American Literary Translators Association. He has curated exhibitions on Black Mountain College and Rudy Burckhardt and co-curated a retrospective of the films of Isabelle Huppert at Film Forum in New York City. His writing on contemporary art and poetry has appeared in Apollo, Art in America, ARTnews, The Brooklyn Rail, and The Poetry Project Newsletter. From 2010 to 2021, Katz curated "Readings in Contemporary Poetry" series at Dia:Chelsea in New York City. More info via vincentkatz.net
Andrei Codrescu, born in Sibiu, Transylvania, Romania, emigrated to the United States in 1966. He is the author of numerous books, poems, novels, and essays, including Too Late for Nightmares (Black Widow Press, 2022), Visul Diacritic (Editura Nemira, 2021), No Time Like Now (Pitt Series, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), The Art of Forgetting: New Poems (Sheep Meadow Press, 2016), Jealous Witness (2008), It Was Today (2003), and his debut, License to Carry a Gun (1970), which won the Big Table Poetry Award. He also received the National Heritage Award in 2017 and the Ovidius Prize for Literature in 2006. He founded Exquisite Corpse: a Journal of Books and Ideas. He was a regular commentator on NPR’s "All Things Considered". He taught literature and poetry at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Baltimore, and Louisiana State University. More info via codrescu.com