Garrett Caples is the author of many things including the recent book of poems, Power Ballads (Wave 2016), and a book of essays, Retrievals (Wave 2014). He has co-edited Incidents of Travel in Poetry: New and Selected Poems by Frank Lima (City Lights 2016), Particulars of Place by Richard O. Moore (Omnidawn 2015), and Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia (California, 2013). He’s also an editor at City Lights, where he curates the Spotlight poetry series. He lives in San Francisco.

Matt Longabucco is the author of the chapbooks The Sober Day (DoubleCross Press, 2016) and Everybody Suffers: The Selected Poems of Juan García Madero (O’Clock Press, 2014).  Other work has appeared recently in Prelude, Haunt, and The Brooklyn Rail.  He is a co-founder of Wendy’s Subway, an independent library and meeting space for writers, artists, and readers.  He teaches at New York University and Bard College, and lives in Brooklyn.

This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers through public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.