6:30 p.m.

Jill Alexander Essbaum is author of numerous books of poetry, including The Devastation, Necropolis, Oh Forbidden, Harlot, and Heaven, which won the 1999 Bakeless Prize. She is a recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and has served as an editor for the online journal ANTI- and for the Nanopress Project.

Moderated by David Lehman, poetry coordinator of the School of Writing.

Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street, room 510

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