Liz Arnold and Josh Weiner at Bridge Street Books, Tuesday, September 23, 7:30 pm

The Edge Reading Series at Bridge Street Books presents Elizabeth Arnold, Anthony Madrid & Joshua Weiner

Winner of an Amy Lowell scholarship, a Whiting award, and fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Fine Arts Center, Yaddo, and MacDowell, ELIZABETH ARNOLD has published four books of poems: LIFE, EFFACEMENT, CIVILIZATION, and THE REEF. She is on the MFA faculty at the University of Maryland.

ANTHONY MADRID lives in Chicago. His poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2013, B O D Y, Boston Review, Fence, Lana Turner, LIT, and Poetry. His first book is titled I AM YOUR SLAVE NOW DO WHAT I SAY (Canarium Books, 2012).

JOSHUA WEINER is the author of three books of poetry, most recently, THE FIGURE OF A MAN BEING SWALLOWED BY A FISH (Chicago, 2013). He is also the editor of AT THE BARRIERS: ON THE POETRY OF THOM GUNN, and the poetry editor at Tikkun magazine. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a 2014 fellowship from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, among others. A professor of English at the University of Maryland, he lives with his family in Washington DC.

BRIDGE STREET BOOKS 2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, DC 20007 ph 202 965 5200 Located in Georgetown, next to the Four Seasons Hotel, five blocks from the Foggy Bottom Metro, blue & orange lines.

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