Join us for a civilised and enjoyable afternoon of poems read by
Joshua Weiner and Karl Kirchwey at the Keats-Shelley House, Piazza di
Spagna 26.

Advance booking is not essential though numbers will be limited.
Entrance is included in the standard price of entry to visit the
museum.



Joshua Weiner is the author of two books of poetry, The World’s Room
and From the Book of Giants, and the editor of At the Barriers: On the
Poetry of Thom Gunn (all from Chicago).  His new book of poems, The
Figure of a Man Being Swallowed by a Fish, will be published by
Chicago in spring 2013.   He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’
Award and the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and
Letters, among others.  This year he holds the Amy Lowell Poetry
Traveling Scholarship, and is living in Berlin.  His poems and essays
have appeared in Best American Poetry, The New York Review of Books,
The Nation, The American Scholar, Village Voice, Chicago Tribune, The
New Republic, Threepenny Review, Poetry, Washington Post, Slate, and
elsewhere.  He is professor of English at the University of Maryland
and lives with his family in Washington DC.




Karl Kirchwey is the author of six books of poems, beginning with A
Wandering Island (Princeton University Press, 1990) and including The
Engrafted Word (Holt, 1998, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year)
and, most recently, Mount Lebanon (Marian Wood Books/Putnam's, 2011).
His new manuscript is Stumbling Blocks: Roman Poems. He has translated
Paul Verlaine's first book of poems as Poems Under Saturn (Princeton
University Press, 2011) and is working on translations of work by
Italian poet Giovanni Giudici (1924-2011). He has also written a verse
play based on the Alcestis of Euripides.

Karl Kirchwey was Director of the Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y
in New York from 1987-2000. Since 2000, he has taught at Bryn Mawr
College, where he is Professor of the Arts and Director of the
Creative Writing Program. From 2010-2013 he has been on leave from
Bryn Mawr to serve as Andrew Heiskell Arts Director at the American
Academy in Rome. He received the Rome Prize in Literature in 1994, and
has received grants from the Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim Foundations
as well as from the National Endowment for the Arts.