Divining Divas at The White Swallow

Contributors read from Divining Divas, an anthology of gay poets and their divas. Mark Bibbins on Kristin Hersh Paul Legault on Jane Fonda Tim Liu on Maria Callas Michael Montlack on Stevie Nicks Jerome Murphy on Alice in Wonderland Angelo Nikolopoulos on Greta Garbo Mark Bibbins is the author of The Dance of No Hard Feelings (Copper Canyon Press, 2009) and the Lambda Award-winning Sky Lounge. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, Boston Review, Tin House, and three editions of The Best American Poetry. He teaches in the graduate writing programs of The New School, where he co-founded LIT magazine, and Columbia University. Paul Legaults poems have been published in Denver Quarterly, Drunken Boat, FIELD, and other journals. He is the co-founder and co-editor of the translation journal Telephone. His books include The Madeleine Poems (Omnidawn Press, 2010) and The Other Poems (Fence Books, 2011). Timothy Liu is the author of eight books of poems, most recently Bending the Mind Around the Dreams Blown Fuse. His poems have been translated into ten languages, and he lives with his husband in Manhattan. Michael Montlack is the author of Cool Limbo (NYQ Books, 2011) and the editor of the essay anthology My Diva (University of Wisconsin Press, 2009) and its poetry follow-up Divining Divas (Lethe, 2012). He teaches at Berkeley College in New York City and is finishing his first novel. Jerome Ellison Murphy received an MFA in 2011 from the Creative Writing Program at New York University, where he currently acts as Program Administrator, and where he taught Introduction to Creative Writing to undergraduates in Spring 2011. His reviews have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail and in the monthly column Outwords, which he authored for Next Magazine from 2010-2011. Angelo Nikolopoulos is the recipient of the 2011 Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize and a graduate of NYU's Creative Writing Program. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Best American Poetry 2012, Best New Poets 2011, Boston Review, Cortland Review, Los Angeles Review, Meridian, New York Quarterly, North American Review, Tin House and elsewhere. His first book of poems, Obscenely Yours, is the winner of the Kinereth Gensler Award and is forthcoming from Alice James Books in 2013.