The Red Sofa Reading Series presents a reading with
Michael Klein
Leah Umansky
Kasey Jueds
Hosted by Hila Ratzabi
A book signing and reception with food and wine will follow the reading.
Friday May 9th, 7pm
Tickets: $5 in advance; $7 at the door
The Red Sofa Reading Series @ Indy Hall
22 North 3rd Street Philadelphia, PA 19106
@redsofasalon @indyhall_arts
www.redsofasalon.com
About the Poets
Michael Klein is a five-time Lambda Literary award finalist and won the award twice for his anthology, Poets for Life: 76 Poets Respond to AIDS and for his first book of poems, 1990, which tied with Collected Poems by James Schuyler. His third book of poems, The Talking Day (Sibling Rivalry Press) is a finalist for both a Lambda Literary Award and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. He is also the author of two books of prose, Track Conditions and The End of Being Known both published by the University of Wisconsin Press. He has new work appearing or forthcoming in Little Star, Provincetown Arts, The Awl, Ampersand Review and Poetry magazine and he teaches poetry and non-fiction in the MFA Program at Goddard College and, summers, at Castle Hill Center for the Arts in Truro, Massachusetts. He lives in New York City and Provincetown.
Leah Umansky is the author of the Mad-Men inspired chapbook, Don Dreams and I Dream (Kattywompus Press, 2014) and the full length collection, Domestic Uncertainties, (BlazeVOX, 2013). She has been a contributing writer to BOMB Magazine’s BOMBLOG , Luna Luna Magazine, The Rumpus and Tin House. She sometimes live tweets for the Best American Poetry Blog. She also hosts and curates the COUPLET Reading Series in NYC. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in POETRY, The Poetry Review, Barrow Street and The Brooklyn Rail among others.
Kasey Jueds is the author of Keeper, which won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press, and was published by Pitt in fall 2013. Her poems have appeared in publications including Beloit Poetry Journal, Prairie Schooner, Manhattan Review, Salamander, Crab Orchard Review, Women’s Review of Books, and 5AM. She has been awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Soapstone, and the Ucross Foundation.
About the Host
Hila Ratzabi was selected by Adrienne Rich as a recipient of a National Writers Union Poetry Prize, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and received an Amy Award (Poets & Writers Magazine). Her chapbook, The Apparatus of Visible Things, is published by Finishing Line Press, and her poetry is published in a variety of journals. Her book-length poetry manuscript, No One Blue, has twice been a finalist for the To the Lighthouse Poetry Publication Prize. She has received scholarships and fellowships to the Willapa Bay AiR residency, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Arctic Circle Residency. She is the editor-in-chief of the literary journal Storyscape. She received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College in 2007.