Barbara Henning, Hugh Seidman & Burt Kimmelman
Reading at KGB Bar
April 4th
7 to 9 P.M.
Glorious Spring in the East Village!
Born in Detroit in 1948, Barbara Henning moved to New York City in 1983 with the father of her children, Allen Saperstein (d. 4/25/1997). She is the mother of Michah Saperstein and Linnée Snyder, with two grandchildren, Luke and Logan Snyder. In 2005 Barbara moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico briefly and then to Tucson, Arizona where she taught for the University of Arizona and for the Poetry Center, serving on the board of the literary group POG and Chax Press. In 2010 she returned to the East Village in New York City where she is presently living. She’s the author of three novels and nine collections of poetry. A Day Like Today was released in the spring of 2015 by Negative Capability Press. Other recent books include two collections of poetry and prose, A Swift Passage (Quale Press, 2013) and Cities & Memory (Chax Press, 2010); a novel, Thirty Miles to Rosebud (BlazeVox, 2009); a collection of object-sonnets, and My Autobiography (United Artists, 2007). She is also a board member on Belladonna and the author/editor of a book of interviews, Looking Up Harryette Mullen (Belladonna, 2011), and The Selected Prose of Bobbie Louise Hawkins (Blazevox, 2012). For a number of years she published limited editions (108) of a series of 16 photo-poem pamphlets, distributed to a list of poets. The last of this series was published a few years ago, My Animal Eyeball. She is a long-time yoga practitioner, having lived and studied in Mysore, India with Shankaranarayana Jois and she brings this knowledge and discipline to her writing and her teaching at Naropa University (2006-14), writers.com and Long Island University in Brooklyn, where she is Professor Emerita.
Hugh Seidman was born in Brooklyn, NY. His poetry has won several awards including the 2004 Green Rose Prize from New Issues Press (Western Michigan University) for his last poetry collection, Somebody Stand Up and Sing (2005). His first book, Collecting Evidence (Yale University Press), won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize (1970). Seidman has also received multiple NYFA, CAPS, and NEA poetry grants, and he has taught writing at the University of Wisconsin, Yale University, the City College of CUNY, the College of William and Mary, the New School University, and several other institutions.
Born and raised in New York City after the Second World War, Burt Kimmelman has published seventeen books of poetry and criticism as well as more than a hundred articles (on literature, on art, and some memoir). His poems are often anthologized and have been featured on National Public Radio, and he has been the subject of a number of interviews available in print or online. His ninth collection of poems, Abandoned Angel (Marsh Hawk Press), was released last fall. His eighth collection, Gradually the World: New and Selected Poems (BlazeVOX [books]), appeared in 2013. He teaches literary and cultural studies at New Jersey Institute of Technology and lives in Maplewood, NJ with his wife, the writer Diane Simmons. More about him can be found at BurtKimmelman.com.