KGB Bar

Paragraph’s monthly series at KGB showcases our members’ work. Join us in April for readings by Jude Polotan and Aaron Poochigian. Free and open to the public.

Jude Polotan is a native New Yorker who first felt inspired to write in a third grade open classroom at P.S. 13 in Corona, Queens. She holds a B.A. in English from Marymount Manhattan College and an M.F.A. from Emerson College, where she was mentored by Andre Dubus III. She has attended the Sewanee Writers’ Conference twice and recently returned from the Sirenland Writers Conference in Positano, Italy. Jude will read from Through the Door, her very tentatively titled third novel.

Aaron Poochigian’s translation of Sappho’s poems, Stung With Love, is now out through Penguin Classics (with a preface by Carol Anne Duffy), and his translation of the ancient Greek astronomical poem Aratus’ Phaenomena will be out June 1. His work has appeared in such newspapers and journals as The Financial Times, Poems Out Loud and Poetry Magazine.