WHY: There are hundreds of poetry readings in New York City every month, but very few dedicated solely to prose. For 12 years, Prose Pros was that, with funny, timely, profound fiction, nonfiction, and memoir by dozens of wonderful writers. Our complete lineup:
Readers in 2018-19: Roberta Allen, Robert Anthony Siegel, Carley Moore, Mimi Lipson, Bill Considine, Dennis Moritz, Bob Rosenthal
2017-18: Nava Renek, Jennifer Sears; Andrei Codrescu, Don Yorty; Maggie Dubris (with Sara Wendt), Eddie Berrigan, Annabel Lee (with Elinor Nauen, the Double Yews) in a night of music & prose, a benefit for New Sanctuary Coalition; Eileen Myles, Kim Lyons, Andrew Levy, Ammiel Alcalay, Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Elinor Nauen
2016–17: Martha King, Elinor Nauen, Maggie Dubris, Adrian Sangeorzan, Mike DeCapite, Chavisa Woods, Thad Rutkowski, Alice Gordon, Emily Rubin, Carley Moore, Quincy Troupe, Hettie Jones, Carter Ratcliff, Siri Hustvedt, Martin Kleinman, Bradley Spinelli, Barry Schwabsky, Jen Knox.
2015–16: Mike DeCapite, Amy Rigby, Martha King (with Mitch Highfill, Vincent Katz, Burt Kimmelman, and Kimberly Lyons), Michael Ruby, Jennifer Bartlett, Jacob Appel, Robert Sullivan, Ada Calhoun, Alisa Solomon, Carl Watson, Karla Greenleaf-MacEwan, Burt Kimmelman, Debbie Nathan, Tiphanie Yanique, Susie Mee, Zack Berger, & Bob Rosenthal.
2014–15: Mike DeCapite, Jaime Joyce, Bill German, Greg Masters, Hettie Jones, Basil King, Lorraine Schein, Ron Kolm, Jill Rapaport, Bruce Benderson, Lori Lynn Turner, Mike Topp & Sparrow, Drew Ciccolo, Michael Fournier, Yuko Otomo, Janice Eidus, Cliff Fyman
2013–14: Ray Halliday, Ted Pelton, Ruth Danon, Bradley Spinelli, Charlotte Carter, Geoffrey O'Brien, Jenny Allen, Nancy Giles, Lynne Tillman, Lynn Crawford, Murat Nemet-Nejat, Bonny Finberg, Ron Padgett, Louise Steinman
2012-13: Martine Bellen, Mark Mirsky, Andrej Blatnick, Andrew Levy, Ammon Shea, Bob Rosenthal, Sarah Falkner, Carl Watson, Martha King, David Berrigan, Ed Friedman, Edmund Berrigan, Vincent Katz and Mike DeCapite, plus a one-off exquisite corpse constructed of bits from 5 years worth of readings, performed by Elinor, Francis (Levy), Mike (DeCapite) and Martha, which led off Boog City’s summer festival last August.
2011-12: Francis Levy, Mischa Merz, Mitch Levenberg, Diane Simmons, David Henderson, David Wilentz, Andrei Codrescu, Elinor Nauen, Mike DeCapite, Stephanie Dickinson, Ann Rower, Litia Perta, Drew Hubner, Tsipi Keller and Lewis Warsh.
2010-11: Phillip Lopate, Burt Kimmelman, Andrei Codrescu, CA Conrad, Eileen Myles, Basil King, Siri Hustvedt, Philip Dray, Donald Breckenridge, Sparrow and Foamola.
2009-10: Joyce Johnson, Tony Towle, Monica de la Torré, Peter Schjeldahl, Sarah Schulman, Lenore Skenazy, Bob Holman, Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb, Pierre Joris, Sanjay Agnihotri, JP Borum and Michael Heller.
2008-09: Terence Winch, Michael Lally, Chuck Wachtel, Tom Carey, Carmen Firan, Barbara Henning, Mike DeCapite, Lee Lowenfish, Joan Silber, Dani Leone, Nahid Rachlin, Diane Simmons and Martha King.
2007-08: Jocelyn Lieu, Mort Zachter, Hettie Jones, Stan Alpert, Peter Trachtenberg, Stephanie Dickinson, Sharon Mesmer, Andrei Codrescu, Eileen Myles, Susan Sherman, Maggie Dubris, Geoffrey O’Brien, Martha King & Elinor Nauen.