The KGB Monday Night Poetry Reading Series, now in its twenty-ninth year, brings together nationally recognized, award winning, established and emerging poets to New York and gives them a mic in the legendary KGB Bar. We aim to provide New York audiences with the best, most compelling, accomplished, diverse, and original poets representative of the current American climate. Originally created by David Lehman and Star Black, the series is now hosted by Tyler Allen Penny, John Deming, Jada Gordon, Selena Spier, and Susan Lewis.
On March 30, KGB Monday Night Poetry Series will host a reading by poet Gabrielle Calvocoressi (author of The New Economy from Copper Canyon Press, a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award in Poetry and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize), poet Jeffrey Pethybridge (author of Striven, Bright Treatise from Noemi Press) and poet Carolina Ebeid (author of Hide from Graywolf press and You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior from Noemi Press).
Doors open at 7 p.m., and the reading will begin on the second floor at 7:30 p.m. 21+ event.
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