Lost City Books presents: A NIGHT OF POETRY

Join us on our Facebook Live as Sara Cahill Marron, Mervyn Taylor, Indran Amirthanayagam, and John Wall Barger offer readings of their recent publications, conversation about their experiences, and a Q&A from the audience. Their recent publications will be available at Lost City Books in advance of the event!

Sara Cahill Marron , a relocated New York poet and author living in Washington D.C., is the author of Reasons for the Long Tu’m (Broadstone Books, 2018) and Associate Editor of Beltway Poetry Quarterly. Her work has been published widely in literary magazines and journals such as Dark Matter, Chagrin River Review, Foliate Oak, Gravel, Crab Fat Magazine, Gravitas, Atlas + Alice, Joey & the Black Boots, The Write Launch, Cordella, FLARE the Flagler Review, Newtown Literary, South Florida Poetry Journal, Golden Walkman and others.

Mervyn Taylor, author of Country of Warm Snow, is a Trinidad-born poet who divides his time between Brooklyn, NY, and his native island. A St. Mary’s old boy, he is a graduate of Howard and Columbia Universities, where he had the opportunity of being under the tutelage of such luminaries as the great folk poet Sterling Brown, and Nobel laureates Derek Walcott and Joseph Brodsky. Taylor went on to teach at many institutions, including Bronx Community College, The Young Adult Learning Academy, The New School University, and in the NYC public school system, being nominated best teacher several times over.

Indran Amirthanayagam, author of The Migrant States and editor at The Beltway Poetry Quarterly, is a Sri Lankan-American poet-diplomat, essayist and translator in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Haitian Creole. He is a diplomat in the U.S. Foreign Service, based currently in Rockville, Maryland. He was born in 1960 in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). When he was eight years old, he moved with his family to London, England, and at age 14, his family moved again to Honolulu, Hawaii, where he began writing. He studied at Punahou School in Honolulu and played cricket at the Honolulu Cricket Club. He then studied English Literature at Haverford College where he also captained their cricket team during his last year. He has a Master's in Journalism from Columbia University.

Author of The Mean Game, John Wall Barger’s poems and critical writing have appeared in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Rattle, The Cincinnati Review, The Hopkins Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Poetry Ireland Review, and Best of the Best Canadian Poetry. His poem, “Smog Mother,” was co-winner of The Malahat Review’s 2017 Long Poem Prize. His fourth collection of poems, The Mean Game (Palimpsest, 2019), is currently in its second print run. He lives in Philadelphia, where he teaches Creative Writing at The University of the Arts.