Other Means Reading Series June 26, 2007

Amy Holman, Kathleen Graber & Anna Moschovakis

Amy Holman is a poet and prose writer living in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. She works as a freelance literary consultant assisting writers with their professional development. Her poetry collection, WAIT FOR ME, I’M GONE, which won a chapbook prize from Dream Horse Press, is sold out except for the two copies at BookCourt on Court Street in Cobble Hill. She has essays in the anthologies, THE SUBWAY CHRONICLES and the forthcoming, KNITTING THROUGH IT, and poetry and fiction in Xconnect, Failbetter, The Cortland Review, Night Train, American Letters & Commentary, Archaeology Magazine, and The Manhattan Review. She is also the author of a guide to colonies, grants and graduate programs called AN INSIDER’S GUIDE TO CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAMS.

Kathleen Graber’s first collection Correspondence was selected by Bob Hicok as the winner of the 2005 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. She will be a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University during the upcoming academic year. She has also received fellowships from The Rona Jaffe Foundation and The New Jersey State Council on the Arts. She has new poems forthcoming in The Literary Review, The Georgia Review and The American Poetry Review.

Anna Moschovakis is the author of a book of poems, _I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone_, and several chapbooks. She aso translates prose and poetry, usually from the French. She is an active member of Ugly Duckling Presse, a collaboratively run publishing concern based in Brooklyn, and currently teaches at Pratt Institute.

The three writers have chosen to support Added Value, a non-profit organization promoting the sustainable development of Red Hook by nurturing a new generation of young leaders. They create opportunities for the youth of South Brooklyn to expand their knowledge base, develop new skills and positively engage with their community through the operation of a socially responsible urban farming enterprise.

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Other Means is a reading series that strives to initiate and encourage meaningful relationships between New York City writers, lit fans, and community organizations. Each month, three writers collectively choose a local community organization to support. When they come together to read at Last Exit Bar in downtown Brooklyn, listeners learn about that organization and can make donations on the spot—or find out about future volunteer opportunities. In the name of Other Means, all proceeds collected at the reading are given to the organization highlighted that month. You’ve never begun such a meaningful relationship in a bar.

Official Website: http://othermeans.wordpress.com/2007/06/17/were-still-here-get-in-gear-for-tuesday-the-26th/