Poetry Night at Andaz Wall Street
Pen Parentis Literary Salon opens its sixteenth season with its annual Winter Poetry night. Poets Gabriel Fried, Sarah Gambito, Marcia LeBeau and Ginny Wiehardt will read from new works and discuss how they balance a career in poetry with an active young family at home.
When: Tue., Jan. 9, 7 pm
Where: Andaz Wall Street, 75 Wall St.
Admission is free. RSVP is recommended, but not required—the Pen Parentis Literary Salon is open to adults over the age of 21.
There will be complimentary wine and light refreshments.
Gabriel Fried is the author of two poetry collections. Making the New Lamb Take and The Children Are Reading. He is the longtime poetry editor at Persea Books.
Sarah Gambito is the author of the poetry collections Delivered (Persea Books) and Matadora (Alice James Books). She is Associate Professor of English / Director of Creative Writing at Fordham University and co-founder of Kundiman, a non-profit organization serving Asian American writers.
Marcia LeBeau's poems have been published in The Hiram Review, Moon City Review, SLANT, and elsewhere. Her work has also appeared in O: The Oprah Magazine and has been read on the radio. She has been anthologized in Challenges for the Delusional (Jane Street Press, 2012) and The Crack the Spine Anthology XIV (Crack the Spine Press, 2016).
Ginny Wiehardt’s chapbook Migration won the 2016 Gold Line Press Poetry Chapbook Contest. Her poems have appeared in literary journals including Bellingham Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Southern Humanities Review, Subtropics, and Willow Springs.