Join us at the Bureau for the launch of David Eye‘s chapbook of poems Rain Leaping Up When a Cab Goes Past.

David Eye left New York City and a 17-year career in the theatre in the fall of 2005 to earn an MFA in Creative Writing at Syracuse University. Since graduating in 2008, his poems have appeared in in Bloom, Cider Press Review, Consequence Magazine (finalist, 2010 Consequence Prize for Poetry), Lambda Literary, The Louisville Review, Puerto del Sol, Stone Canoe, among other journals and anthologies. His short collection of poems, Rain Leaping Up When a Cab Goes Past, has just been published by Seven Kitchens Press. As an actor, in addition to Off-Broadway productions (and even more Off-Off‑), David appeared in the Broadway tour of Cats, and on television in Law and Order and Special Victims Unit. Before moving to New York, he was an officer in the U.S. Army, stationed at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. David has taught at Syracuse University, St. John’s University, Manhattan College, and Cazenovia College, where he now teaches academic writing. David grew up in rural Virginia.

Following the launch of David Eye’s Rain Leaping Up When a Cab Goes Past, please stay for the discussion of The Missing Myth: A New Vision of Same-Sex Love with the author, Gilles Herrada, at 7 PM.