Hear Amazing Poets Read At Lark Café This Sunday

Looking for something to do this weekend? How about spending quality literary time with some of the city’s best poets?

Lit at Lark (led by Kensington’s own Amy Shearn!) will hold its first gathering of 2015 this Sunday at Lark Café (1007 Church Avenue) – and this month’s meeting will feature many an amazing wordsmith – as well as a happy hour special.

Among the poets who will be reading include:

• Robin Beth Schaer, whose work has appeared in Tin House, The Paris Review, Bomb, Guernica, and At Length, among others. She teaches writing at Cooper Union and Marymount Manhattan College in New York City, and (!) worked as a deckhand aboard the Tall Ship Bounty, a 180-foot full-rigged ship lost during Hurricane Sandy.

• Matt Longabucco is the author of the chapbook Everybody Suffers: The Selected Poems of Juan García Madero (O’Clock Press 2014). Other work has appeared recently in Aufgabe, Parkett, and The Brooklyn Rail. He teaches writing and literature in the Liberal Studies Program at New York University, and he is the Friday Night Series coordinator at the Poetry Project.

• Nancy Hightower is an author and poet, as well as an art critic and fiction reviewer who currently writes for The Washington Post. Her debut epic fantasy novel, Elementarí Rising, was published in September 2013 with Pink Narcissus Press and received a starred review from Library Journal. Her short fiction and poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including The New York Quarterly, Word Riot, storySouth, Prick of the Spindle, Gargoyle, and is forthcoming in A cappella Zoo and Stone Highway Review.

• Lisa Marie Basile is the editor of Luna Luna Magazine and the small press Patasola Press. She is the NY Editor for The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review. Her poetry and essays have been published in Best American Poetry, Coldfront, Tin House, PEN American Center, Poets & Artists Magazine, PANK, The Nervous Breakdown, Huffington Post, Johns Hopkin’s The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review, decomP, Thrush Poetry Journal, Poetry Crush, La Fovea, Prick of the Spindle and elimae, among others. She is the author of three chapbooks. Noctuary Press, published her full-length poetry collection, APOCRYPHAL, in October 2014.

• Kevin Kinsella is a freelance writer and poet living in Brooklyn. He is the translator of two collections of Russian poetry, including “Tristia” by Osip Mandelstam (Green Integer Books) and “Children’s Island” by Sasha Chernyi (Lightful Press). His work has appeared in/on Pif Magazine, Tarpaulin Sky Magazine, the Believer Magazine, and the Rumpus.

For more information about this Sunday’s Lit at Lark, you can visit the reading series’ Facebook page.