KGB Bar

Nominated by Columbia M.F.A. faculty, our readers will charm, engage, and mystify all those in attendance with a sampling their best work.

Our line-up this month:

Susannah Nevison’s poetry and book reviews are forthcoming from Western Humanities Review and Jerry Magazine. Her work has also found its way into an online Encyclopedia, a fact that puzzles her almost as much as it concerns her. Susannah is determined not to be a complete shut-in while she finishes her first collection, tentatively titled ‘Something Clinical,’ which deals with issues surrounding the body, deformity, and self. She lives in Brooklyn.

Genevieve Burger-Weiser’s poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from The Boston Review, Western Humanities Review, Washington Square Review, and Juked magazine. She was a finalist for the Poetry Foundation’s 2009 Ruth Lilly Fellowship and shortlisted for the 2009 Times Literary Supplement poetry prize. Her current poems examine the (very arbitrary) multiplicity of experience, and what we can make of it.

Nell Boeschenstein was born and raised in Charlottesville, Virginia but lives in Brooklyn now like the rest of them. Her essays have appeared on The Morning News and The Rumpus, and her journalism has appeared in numerous regional magazines and alt-weeklies. Lately, she has been thinking about the line “I said, ‘Be careful his bow tie is really a camera’ “, from the Simon and Garfunkel song “America.” She is also at work on a collection of essays about Saturn returning.