Georgiou, Semerdjian & Susko: December 2, 2009, New York, NY

NYC Book Release for Alan Semerdjian's In the Architecture of Bone
& an Evening of Hyphenated American Poetry with Elena Georgiou and Mario Susko
6:00 PM @ The Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery (Between Houston and Bleecker)
F train to 2nd Ave, 6 to Bleecker
212-614-0505
$6

Elena Georgiou is the author of Rhapsody of the Naked Immigrants (Harbor Mountain Press, Sept. 2009) and mercy mercy me, which won a Lambda Literary Award for poetry, was a finalist for the Publishing Triangle Award, and was reissued by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2003. She is also co-editor (with Michael Lassell) of the poetry anthology, The World In Us (St. Martin’s Press). Georgiou has won an Astraea Emerging Writers Award, a New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship, and was a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her recent work appears in Denver Quarterly, BOMB, MiPoesia, Lumina, Spoon River Review, Cream City Review, and Gargoyle. She is a member of the faculty in the MFA program at Goddard College, Vermont.

Alan Semerdjian is the author of In the Architecture of Bone (GenPop Books 2009). His poems and essays have appeared in several print and online publications and anthologies including Chain, The Lyric Review, Adbusters, Arson, Ararat, and Diagram. He released a chapbook of poems called “An Improvised Device” (Lock n Load Press) in 2005. His songs have appeared in television and film and charted on CMJ. Alan has performed and read all over North America. He currently teaches at Herricks High School in New Hyde Park, NY and resides in New York City’s East Village. You can visit Alan's website at alanarts.com