On Sept 23, KGB Bar Monday Night Poetry Series presents award winning poets Natasha Rao & Hadara Bar-Nadav.
Natasha Rao is the author of Latitude (September 2021), selected by Ada Limón as winner of the 2021 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Nation, American Poetry Review, Yale Review, Poetry Northwest, Narrative, The New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere. The recipient of a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, Rao has also recieved fellowships from Bread Loaf, The Sewanee Writers' Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, the Hambidge Center, the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, the Miami Book Fiar, and New York University. She is currently co-editor of American Chordata.
Hadara Bar-Nadav is the recipient of a National Endownment for the Arts fellowship in poetry, the Lucille Medwick Award from the Poetry Society of America, a Poetry Foundation fellowship, and other honors. Her newest book The Animal is Chemical (Four Way Books, 2024), was awarded the Levis Prize in Poetry, selected by Jericho Brown. Her other books include The New Nudity; Lullaby (with Exit Sign), awarded the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize and finalist for the Rilke Prize; and A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight, awarded the Margie Book Prize. She is currently Professor of English and teaches inthe MFA program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Doors open at 7PM. Reading begins at 7:30PM. The event will be held on the second floor. Not wheelchair accessible. Must be 21+ to attend.
The KGB Monday Night Poetry Reading Series, now in its 27th year, brings together nationally recognized, award winning, established and emerging poets to New York and gives them a mic in the legendary KGB Bar. We aim to provide New York audiences with the best, most compelling, accomplished, diverse, and original poets representative of the current American climate. Originally created by David Lehman and Star Black, the series is now hosted by John Deming, Jada Gordon, Tyler Allen Penny, and Susan Lewis.