This audio was recorded at Dia:Chelsea on February 17, 2011 as part of Dia's Readings in Contemporary Poetry series. Ann Lauterbach and Paul Foster Johnson read that evening.

Paul Foster Johnson’s first collection of poetry, Refrains/Unworkings, was published by Apostrophe Books, and his second, Study in Pavilions and Safe Rooms, will be published by Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. With E. Tracy Grinnell, he is the author of the g-o-n-g press chapbook Quadriga. His poems have appeared in The Awl, Jacket, Cannot Exist, GAM, EOAGH, Fence, and Octopus. From 2003 to 2006, he curated the Experiments and Disorders reading series at Dixon Place. He is an editor at Litmus Press and lives in New York.

To hear Vincent Katz's introduction to Paul Foster Johnson, please click here.