Drunken! Careening! Writers!
April, 2015
Greetings, DCW fans!

We have somehow made it past the Vernal Equinox, and there are only 2 or 3 more snowstorms before things finally warm up (I hope!) We look forward to Spring in the lovely & fragrant East Village and hope you will join us for our annual celebration of National Poetry Month on April 16.

But first...a HUGE DCW shoutout to our wonderful readers in March. Amazing Anne Elliott read from her newly published piece about the artists' life in Williamsburg, Brooklyn at the turn of the 21st century. Smokin' Sonia Pilcer read about New York City (and the artist's life) on the Upper West Side in the 1970s. And Serious Stephen Policoff read about the artist's life in the present day and 1980s New York City. It was one of those nights when the room was redolent with talent and craft. 

This month, we welcome 2 returning writers and one DCW newbie to our annual celebration of National Poetry Month. 

I can't wait!

See you soon,
 
Kathleen W.
 
Drunken! Careening! Writers!
Ron Drummond
Amy Lemmon
Daniel Meltz
"Poets on Parade"
with your hostess, Kathleen Warnock
KGB
85 E. 4th St., NYC
April 16, 7pm FREE

Ron Drummond's first collection of poems is the prize-winning Why I Kick at Night. His poetry also appears in the Penguin textbook Literature as Meaning, and in the anthologies Poetry Nation, Poetry After 9/11, This New Breed,Saints of Hysteria and Flicker and Spark. His translations, in collaboration with Guillermo Filice Castro, have appeared in U.S. Latino Review, Terra Incognita and Guernica. He has been awarded fellowships from Ragdale, VCCA, Blue Mountain Center and the Macondo Foundation.


Amy Lemmon is author of the poetry collections Fine Motor (Sow's Ear, 2008) and Saint Nobody (Red Hen, 2009) and co-author, with Denise Duhamel, of ABBA: The Poems (Coconut, 2010) and Enjoy Hot or Iced (Slapering Hol, 2011). Her work has appeared in Rolling Stone, The Best American Poetry,Prairie Schooner, The Journal, Barrow Street, and elsewhere. Amy is Professor and Acting Chairperson of English & Speech at the Fashion Institute of Technology.


 

Daniel Meltz Daniel Meltz lives in Manhattan, between the Chrysler Building and the Midtown Tunnel. He works as a technical writer at Google, and his poetry has been published in American Poetry Review, Assisi, Audio Zine, Best New Poets 2012, CCAR Journal, Imitation Fruit, Lana Turner, Mudfish, Salamander, Temenos, upstreet, and Verse Wisconsin, among others.



Drunken! Careening! Writers!
Drunken! Careening! Writers! is a reading series based on the proposition that readings should be by 1) good writers; who 2) read their work well; 3) something in it makes people laugh (nervous laughter counts), and 15 minutes, tops. (Since 2004).