Lawrence Kaplun Hosts a Poetry Reading with Hafizah Geter, James Allen Hall, & Jericho Brown

Hafizah Geter is a South Carolina native, and a Cave Canem Fellow. The
recipient of a 2012 Amy Award from Poets & Writers and a 2014 Ruth
Lily Finalist from The Poetry Foundation, her poems have appeared or
are forthcoming in RHINO, Drunken Boat, Vinyl, Columbia: A Journal of
Literature and Art, Linebreak, Narrative Magazine, and Gulf Coast,
among others. She is currently the Events & Marketing Associate at
Scenarios USA and a poetry editor at Phantom Limb Press. She lives in
Brooklyn.

James Allen Hall is the author of NOW YOU’RE THE ENEMY (University of
Arkansas Press, 2008), which received the Lambda Literary Award for
Gay Poetry, and awards from the Texas Institute of Letters, and the
Fellowship of Southern Writers. His poems have appeared in many
journals such as Bloom, Boston Review, Four Way Review, The New
England Review, Triquarterly, and The Best American Poetry 2012. He is
an associate professor in the creative writing program at Washington
College in Maryland, where he resides.

Jericho Brown is the author of two books of poetry, PLEASE (New
Issues, 2008), and THE NEW TESTAMENT (Copper Canyon Press, 2014). He’s
the recipient of the Whiting Writers’ Award, and fellowships from the
Radcliffe Institute, and the NEA. His poems have appeared in many
journals such as American Poetry Review, The Nation, The New Republic,
The New Yorker, Ploughshares, and The Best American Poetry 2013. He is
an assistant professor in the creative writing program at Emory
University, and lives in Atlanta.