Join readers Phillip Lopate, M.M. De Voe, Ron Drummond, and Jack Coulehan at a reading and reception to celebrate the spring issue of Bellevue Literary Review. Refreshments will be served.
Phillip Lopate is the author of three personal essay collections, two novels, two poetry collections, a memoir, a collection of movie criticism, an urbanist meditation about Manhattan’s waterfront, and a biographical monograph about Rudy Burckhardt. He is the editor of numerous anthologies, including The Art of the Personal Essay. His essays, fiction, poetry, film and architectural criticism have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Essays, several Pushcart Prize annuals, The Paris Review, Harper's, Vogue, Esquire, The New York Times, and many other periodicals and anthologies. Lopate is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts (twice), the New York Foundation for the Arts (twice), and the New York Public Library.
Jack Coulehan is a physician whose poems appear in numerous literary magazines and medical journals. He is the author of four poetry collections, including most recently Medicine Stone, and co-editor of Primary Care: More Poems by Physicians. His awards include fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and Yaddo; and poetry prizes from the American College of Physicians and American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
M. M. De Voe recently won first place in the Literal Latte and New Millennium Writings fiction contests. Her unpublished novel was a finalist for The Bellwether Prize and The Dana Awards, and won a grant from the Arch & Bruce Brown Foundation. She is an Associate Editor at Our Stories Journal and executive director of Pen Parentis.
Ron Drummond’s Why I Kick At Night received the Portlandia Group Chapbook Prize. His poetry is represented in the textbook Literature as Meaning, the anthologies Poetry Nation, Poetry After 9/11, This New Breed and Saints of Hysteria, and many literary journals. His translations, in collaboration with Guillermo Castro, have appeared in U.S. Latino Review, Guernica and Terra Incognita.
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