Monday Poets | Eugenia Leigh, Andrew Nurkin, and Nicole Steinberg
Literature Department at Parkway Central Library
Room 108, 1st Floor, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Eugenia Leigh is the author of Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows (Four Way Books), winner of the 2015 Debut-litzer Prize in Poetry and finalist for both the National Poetry Series and the Yale Series of Younger Poets. The recipient of fellowships and awards from Poets & Writers Magazine, Kundiman, The Frost Place, Rattle, and the Asian American Literary Review, Eugenia's poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications including The Rumpus, North American Review, and the Best New Poets 2010 anthology. She received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and serves as the Poetry Editor of Hyphen.
Andrew Nurkin’s poems have appeared in The Believer, North American Review, Los Angeles Review, Massachusetts Review, FIELD, Iron Horse Literary Review, and elsewhere. He holds his MFA in poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts and was a 2016 Mid Atlantic Arts Fellow at the Millay Colony for the Arts. He currently serves as Deputy Director for Enrichment and Civic Engagement at the Free Library of Philadelphia.
Nicole Steinberg is the author of Glass Actress (Furniture Press Books, 2017) and Getting Lucky (Spooky Girlfriend Press, 2013), as well as three chapbooks, most recently Clever Little Gang, winner of the 4X4 Furniture Press Chapbook Award. Her work has been featured or reviewed in the New York Times, Newsweek, Flavorwire, Bitch, and Hyperallergic, and her poetry was selected by Penn State's Pennsylvania Center for the Book for the 2016 Public Poetry Project poster series. She lives in Philadelphia and is the Director of Communications and Brand Management for Mural Arts Philadelphia.
Literature Department
Pepper Hall (Room 207)
215-686-5402
Parkway Central Library
1901 Vine Street (between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway)
Philadelphia, PA 19103
1-833-TALK FLP (825-5357)