October 16th, Kith and Kin: Tom Pico, Daniel Owen, Amy King
October 16th, 5-8pm EDT
Sculpture Center
44-19 Purves st New York, New York.
Kith&Kin poetry series, hosted by Adam DeGraff and Tyler Burba, begins its 3rd season with 3 outstanding poets at The SculptureCenter on Sunday on Oct. 16th at 6pm [w/ sculpture viewing and social hour @ 5pm.]
Tommy “Teebs” Pico is author of IRL (Birds, LLC, 2016), Nature Poem (forthcoming 2017 from Tin House Books), and the zine series Hey, Teebs. He was a Queer/Art/Mentors inaugural fellow, 2013 Lambda Literary fellow in poetry, 2016 Tin House summer poetry scholar, and has poems in BOMB, Guernica, and the Offing. Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation, he now lives in Brooklyn and co-curates the reading series Poets with Attitude (PWA) with Morgan Parker. @heyteebs
(also see the recent write up on Pico in The New Yorker.)
Daniel Owen is a writer and member of the Ugly Duckling Presse editorial collective. He is the author of Toot Sweet (United Artists Books) and the chapbook Authentic Other Landscape (Diez). His writing has appeared in Hyperallergic, Elderly, Lana Turner, A Perimeter, The Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere.
Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a co-winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College.
Kith & Kin: Tom Pico, Daniel Owen, Amy King
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