American Poets In Britain, a Reading by Jason Schneiderman, Kathryn Maris and Dante Micheaux

A poetry reading by North American poets based in the UK, hosted by local poet Rich Goodson.

Kathryn Maris is a poet and critic. Her most recent collection was The House With Only An Attic and a Basement (Penguin), a portion of which won the Ivan Juritz Prize for creative experiment. She teaches creative writing at  City & Guilds of London Art School while pursuing a creative writing PhD at Durham University. She is also a co-editor of the Poetry Music Room series in Bloomsbury.  Her essays and reviews have appeared in publications including the TLS, The New Statesman and Poetry Review.

Dante Micheaux is the author of Circus, which won the Four Quartets Prize from the Poetry
Society of America and the T. S. Eliot Foundation, and Amorous Shepherd. His poems and
translations have appeared in magma; PN Review; Poem-A-Day; Poetry; Poetry Review; The
Rialto and Tongue—among other journals and anthologies. Micheaux’s honours include the Oscar Wilde Award, the Ambit Poetry Prize, and fellowships from The New York Times Foundation and Cave Canem Foundation, where he currently serves as Director of Programs. He lives in London.

Jason Schneiderman is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Hold Me Tight (Red Hen). He is Professor of English at CUNY’s BMCC and teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. His next collection, Self Portrait of Icarus as a Country on Fire, will be published by Red Hen Press in 2024. He is currently a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Nottingham.

And our host for tonight is Rich Goodson (he/they) published his début, Mr Universe, in 2017.  It was one of the Poetry Book Society’s top four pamphlets of that year. He read English at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford (the first in his family to go to university) and has a doctorate in Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University. Currently he’s working on a collection of poems and personal essays which explore masculinity, censorship, shame and sex. He teaches refugee teenagers at Nottingham College, is an online therapist in private practice and is also a student of Korean Zen.

Booking is advised. Refreshments provided