Berl's invites you to attend a poetry reading!
April 17, 7 pm
Featuring the works of Jennifer Michael Hecht, Priscilla Becker, and Michele Wolf.
About the poets:
Michele Wolf is the author of Immersion (selected by Denise Duhamel, Hilary Tham Capital Collection, The Word Works), Conversations During Sleep (Anhinga Prize for Poetry, Anhinga Press) and The Keeper of Light (Painted Bride Quarterly Poetry Chapbook Series). Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Hudson Review, Boulevard, North American Review and many other journals and anthologies, as well as on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. She is a contributing editor for Poet Lore and teaches at The Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland. A longtime New Yorker, she now lives with her husband and daughter in Gaithersburg, Maryland, outside Washington, D.C.
Priscilla Becker’s first book of poems, Internal West, was the winner of The Paris Review book prize. Her second collection, Stories That Listen, was released from Four Way Books. Her poems have appeared in the following literary journals, among others: Fence, Open City, Boston Review, The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Verse, Dossier, Aufgabe, and The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets; her fiction in The Literary Review, winner of The Charles Angoff prize; in 2013 her collection of essays: Morbid Dyslexia [and other word disorders] was selected as the finalist in the GrayWolf Press Nonfiction contest; her music reviews have been published in The Nation and Filter magazine; her essays in Cabinet magazine and Open City. Her non-fiction has also been anthologized by Soft Skull Press, Anchor Books, and Sarabande. She has completed her third book, Pure Brown, and a chapbook, A Very Young Black Hole.
Jennifer Michael Hecht is a poet, philosopher, historian and commentator. She is the author of the bestseller Doubt: A History, a history of religious and philosophical doubt all over the world, throughout history. Her new book is Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It, out from Yale University Press. Her The Happiness Myth brings a historical eye to modern wisdom about how to lead a good life. Hecht’s The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology won Phi Beta Kappa’s 2004 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award “For scholarly studies that contribute significantly to interpretations of the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity.” Her first book of poetry, The Next Ancient World, won three national awards, including the Poetry Society of America’s First Book award for 2001. Her new poetry book called Who Said, just came out from Copper Canyon in November 2013. Hecht has written for Politico, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The New Yorker.
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