The So and So Reading Series, No. 14 The Last at the Lily Held at The Lily Pad on June 30, 2007 Order of Events: 00:00 Intro by Host and Curator Chris Tonelli 01:18 Kaveh Bassiri 18:00 Malachi Black 33:40 Laura Cronk Kaveh Bassiri was born in Iran and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in his early teens. He has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, where he was the Editor of the 2006 issue of its graduate literary journal, Lumina. He is also the co-curator of the poetry series, Reading Between A and B, in the East Village. Malachi Black is Literary Editor of The New York Quarterly. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, Pleiades, The New Formalist, and others. He lives in New York City. Laura Cronk has published poems in Barrow Street, Conduit, LIT, Lyric, McSweeney's, No Tell Motel, and other journals. Her work has been anthologized in The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel and Best American Poetry 2006. She lives in Jersey City, NJ. Image by Leo Reynolds on Flickr. Used with permission.