Book Launch & Reading: Vincent Katz and Richard Bosman

Book Launch & ReadingAccountsPaintings by Richard BosmanPoems & Stories by Vincent Katz

Wednesday, December 17, 6 pmKarma188 East 2nd StreetNew York

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Karma presents a reading by Vincent Katz followed by a signing with Richard Bosman and Katz to mark the launch of Accounts (Karma Books, 2025) at 188 East 2nd Street, New York. Pre-order Accounts .

Richard Bosman is a painter and printmaker. His work has been presented in exhibitions since 1980 in the United States and internationally, and is held in the permanent collections of the Australian National Gallery, Canberra; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris; and Detroit Institute of Art, among others. Previous publications include Exit the Face, poems by Ted Greenwald, drawings by Richard Bosman (MoMA, New York, 1982); and Grasping at Emptiness, poems by John Giorno, drawings by Richard Bosman (Kulchur Foundation, New York, 1987); The Captivity Narrative of Hannah Dustin by Cotton Mather, John Greenleaf Whittier, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau, woodblock prints by Richard Bosman (Arion Press, San Francisco, 1987). He lives in Esopus, New York.

Vincent Katz is a poet, translator, and critic. He is the author of the poetry collections Daffodil (Alfred A. Knopf, 2025), Broadway for Paul (Knopf, 2020), Southness (Lunar Chandelier Press, 2016), and Swimming Home (Nightboat Books, 2015), among others. He collaborated with Anne Waldman on the book-length poem Fantastic Caryatids (BlazeVOX Press, 2017) and with Andrei Codrescu on A Possible Epic of Care (Black Widow Press, 2023). Katz is the author of The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius (Princeton University Press, 2004), translations of the Roman love poet, and is currently translating the Works and Days and the Theogony of the ancient Greek poet Hesiod. He is the editor of Black Mountain College: Experiment in Art (MIT Press, 2002), and his writing on contemporary art and poetry has appeared in numerous journals and exhibition catalogues. He lives in New York City.

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