Join us for the 3rd installment of NEWFANGLED, a series of poetry readings by young poets hosted by Robert Siek.

For NEWFANGLED 3 Siek introduces Lawrence Kaplun, Rickey Laurentiis, and Robert Whitehead.

LAWRENCE KAPLUN is from California, and received his B.A. in English from San Francisco State University. He has attended the Squaw Valley Community of Writers Program and the Summer Writers Institute at Skidmore. His poems appear in Sonora Review, Southern Humanities Review, Toad, and The Gay & Lesbian Review. He lives in Brooklyn.

RICKEY LAURENTIIS was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is the recipient of a 2012 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship, a 2013 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a traveling fellowship from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy. His poems appear most recently in Boston Review, The Kenyon Review, and Poetry magazine, and have been commissioned by the International Art Exhibition, Prospect.3 New Orleans. He lives in Brooklyn.

ROBERT WHITEHEAD received his MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, and fellowships from the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets and The Ashbery Home School. His work appears or is forthcoming in Assaracus, Gulf Coast, Vinyl, ALL HOLLOW, Upstart, and elsewhere. He was born in Madagascar, reared in Rangoon, and currently lives in Park Slope.

ROBERT SIEK is a poet who lives in Brooklyn and works at a large publishing house in Manhattan. His poems most recently appear in The Good Men Project, Painted Bride Quarterly, and The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, as well as the anthology Between: New Gay Poetry. In 2002, the New School published his chapbook Clubbed Kid, and Purpose and Devil Piss, published by Sibling Rivalry Press, is his first full-length collection of poetry.