Come join MetroRhythm at the Popsickle Literary Festival in Brooklyn, on Saturday, June 23 from 12-8pm at The Paper Box. Metro Rhythm is serving up two fantastic readers, Kelly Forsythe and Paul Legault, to the festival’s ranks. Spend your summer Saturday right at what is sure to be a sensational day of literary arts.

 

 

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Kelly Forsythe has poems published or forthcoming in The Minnesota Review, Black Warrior Review and Columbia Poetry Review. Her reviews appear in The Rumpus and Los Angeles Review. In the fall, Noelle Kocot introduced her in American Poet magazine as a 2011 Academy of American Poets “Emerging Poet.” She is the editor of Phantom Limb, an online literary journal, and works for Copper Canyon Press.

Paul Legualt is the co-founder of the translation press Telephone Books and the author of three books of poetry: The Madeleine Poems (Omnidawn, 2010), The Other Poems (Fence, 2011), and The Emily Dickinson Reader (McSweeney’s, 2012). He is also the co-editor of The Sonnets: Translating and Rewriting Shakespeare (Telephone/Nightboat, 2012), 154 poets’ “versions” of the bard’s own. Legault lives in Brooklyn, NY and works for the Academy of American Poets. He’s here.