Cornelia Street Presents White Swallow Reading Series & Travis Sullivan Quartet 4/6

Starting at 6:00PM tonight, April 6th, the Cornelia Street Cafe presents the White Swallow REading Series and the Travis Sullivan Quartet.

Spoken Word 

WHITE SWALLOW READING SERIES: 
(Monica McClure; Julia Guez; Jennifer Kronovet; Amy King)
Tue Apr 06th 6:00PM 

Monica McClure is currently pursuing her MFA at New York University. Her debut book of poetry, Now I've Got the Pill, will be out by Low Hanging Branch Press (2011).
Julia Guez, after five years of service with Teach For America, is now living in New York, pursuing a Masters in Fine Arts at Columbia and working part-time at The Academy of American Poets. At work on a first full-length collection of poetry, she has received a Harvey Fellowship and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize. New verse is soon to appear in Western Humanities Review, Inscape, The Blue Fifth and Basilica Review.

Jennifer Kronovet was born and raised in New York City. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Washington University in St. Louis, an M.A. in Applied Linguistics from Columbia University Teachers College, and a B.A. in English from the University of Chicago. She is the co-founder and co-editor of the journal Circumference: Poetry in Translation. She is the author of the poetry collection Awayward (BOA Editions, 2009).

Amy King is the author of I'm the Man Who Loves You and Antidotes for an Alibi, both from Blazevox Books, The People Instruments (Pavement Saw Press), Kiss Me With the Mouth of Your Country (Dusie Press), and forthcoming, Slaves to Do These Things (Blazevox Books) and I Want to Make You Safe. Her poems have been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes, and she has been the recipient of a MacArthur Scholarship for Poetry. Amy King was also the 2007 Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere. She is currently editing an anthology, The Urban Poetic, forthcoming from Factory School.

Angelo Nikolopoulos is a retired high school teacher currently pursuing an MA at NYU's creative writing program, where he also serves as the managing editor of the Washington Square Review. He also works as a writing fellow at Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island and is the founder of The White Swallow reading series. 
Angelo Nikolopoulos, host. Cover $7

Travis Sullivan QUARTET 
Tue Apr 06th 8:30PM 
(Travis Sullivan, alto saxophone; Mike Eckroth, piano; Nathan Peck, bass; Brian Fishler, drums)

Alto saxophonist, pianist, arranger, composer and educator Travis Sullivan has established himself as one of the most innovative and creative voices in modern jazz today. His recording debut of all originals was hailed by critics as "one of the the best indie releases heard in the past year" (Todd Jenkins, All About Jazz), and he was praised by jazz writer Bill Milkowski (Jazz Times) as "as artist to watch in the coming days". Also an accomplished composer, Sullivan's work "The Last Tango in NYC", a piece for accordion, clarinet, trombone, and electric guitar, was recorded by the eclectic chamber quartet "The Four Bags" for their 2004 CD "Offshore". For more information visit http://www.travissullivan.com.

There is a cover of $7 (includes one house drink). The Cornelia Street Cafe is located between West 4th and Bleecker Street.  The cultural landmark has been in operation since 1977 and has remained an artists cafe since the beginning of its existence. For a detailed performance schedule, visit http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com.