At DL’s Brooklyn Book Festival 2012 Bookend Event tonite, the poets of the evening are Austin LaGrone and Laren McClung, both NYU MFA program alums.
LaGrone, who is heading over from his home in Ditmas Park, is the author of the debut poetry collection, Oyster Perpetual, which was selected as the 2010 winner of the Idaho Prize in Poetry by Lost Horse Press. His poems have also appeared in Black Warrior Review, Brilliant Corners, Crazyhorse, Fourteen Hills, Hayden’s Ferry, Spoon River Poetry Review, Poetry International and Willow Springs. Born and raised in Louisiana, LaGrone holds degrees from St. John’s College and New York University and has been a faculty member at John Jay College since 2007, where he teaches composition, creative writing and modern literature.
Also reading poetry tonite is Laren McClung. McClung’s debut poetry collection, Between Here and Monkey Mountain was published by Sheep Meadow Press this past spring. She has taught poetry workshops at Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island and in New York University’s Veterans Writing Workshop for Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans. She is co-editing the anthology Inheriting the War: Poetry and Prose by Children of Vietnam Veterans and Refugees. Her work has appeared in journals and reviews including the Massachusetts Review, War, Literature & the Arts, and PN Review. She currently teaches at New York University.
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