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Geoffrey Young was born in Los Angeles in 1944, and grew up in San Diego.  He was educated at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and has taught Art & Literature at Columbia, UC Berkeley, and Vassar, as well as Art Criticism at the University at Albany.  His small press, The Figures (1975-2005), published more than 125 books of poetry, fiction and art writing.  Several of his own poetry books, including Cerulean Embankments, Lights Out, and Fickle Sonnets, have been illustrated by Carroll Dunham, James Siena, and Donald Baechler, respectively.  His most recent book of poems, The Riot Act, was published by Bootstrap Editions, in 2008.  Over the past nineteen years he has curated more than 70 exhibitions of drawing and painting at his contemporary art gallery in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, where he has been living since 1982.

Proceeds from these readings go to PEN and Biblioteca scholarship funds.