Caffe Lena to Host Kate McNairy and Bernadette Mayer on May 3

On Wednesday, May 3, Caffè Lena will present poetry readings by Kate McNairy and Bernadette Mayer with an open reading will follow.

On Wednesday, May 3, Caffè Lena will present poetry readings by Kate McNairy and Bernadette Mayer.   An open reading will follow. Doors open for sign-ups at 7pm and the readings will start at 7:30. The host for the event will be Carol Graser and the cost is $5, free for students.

Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, 583-0022, www.caffelena.org

Bernadette MayerBernadette Mayer was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1945. A most prolific poet, her first book was published when she was twenty-three years old. For many years Mayer lived and worked on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. She was the Director of St. Mark’s Poetry Project from 1980 to 1984. Now, many texts later she continues to write progressive poetry from her home in East Nassau, New York. Mayer has taught at Naropa Poetics Institute, New School for Social Research, College of Staten Island, and New England College. She has received grants and awards from: PEN American Center, Foundation for Contemporary Performing Art, The NEA, The Academy for American Poets, and American Academy of Arts and Letters.  Her newest collection is “Works and Days” (New Directions Publishing 2016). http://www.ndbooks.com/book/works-and-days/

Kate McNairyKate McNairy is a regular at Caffe Lena Poetry. She has two chapbooks published with Finishing Line Press, “June Bug” (2014) and “Light to Light” (2016). She has studied with Henri Cole and was a finalist in The Blue Light Poetry Contest in 2013. She’s also been an instructor at Empire State College, a freelance writer for newspapers and was on the editorial board of The Apple Tree, a literary magazine.

For more information, contact:
Carol Graser
[email protected]
380 Fayville Road, Galway, NY 12074
518-774-0354

About the author: Thom Francis
Thom Francis has been organizing, promoting, and hosting open mics and poetry / spoken word events in Albany such as Nitty Gritty Slam, School of Night, Albany Poets Presents..., and the Albany Word Fest for over 20 years. As a poet and performer, Thom has been featured at many of the upstate poetry and spoken word events from Saratoga to Woodstock as well as LarkFest, Art on Lark, 1st Friday, and the Albany Word Fest.
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