The Poetry Project

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Ann Lauterbach, Poetry for the Next Society Symposium - Photo credit: Laure Leber, 1990
Alice Notley, 1989
Ed Sanders, Anne Waldman, Bob Rosenthal, Judith Malina, Hanon Reznikov & Ed Friedman - Photo credit: Laure Leber, ca 1997-98
Photo credit: Jacob Burckhardt, 1986
James Schulyer, Poetry for the Next Society Symposium - Photo credit: Laure Leber, 1990
Kenward Elmslie, Steven Taylor - Photo credit: Laure Leber
Nicanor Parra & Allen Ginsberg - Photo credit: Vivian Selbo, 1987
Simon Pettet - Photo credit: Jacob Burckhardt, 1990
Brenda Coultas - Photo Credit: Melissa Zexter, 1996
John Giorno - Photo credit: Sarah Wells, 1981
Kenneth Koch & Allen Ginsberg post-fire Parish Hall, 1979
Tracie Morris & Vernon Reid - Photo Credit: Melissa Zexter, 1998
Lee Ann Brown & Bernadette Mayer - Photo credit: Jacob Burckhardt, 1993
Thomas Sayers Ellis, 1995 - Photo Credit: Melissa Zexter
Cecilia Vicuña - Photo Credit: Laure Leber
Taylor Mead - Photo credit: Jacob Burckhardt, 1993
Barrett Watten, Poetry for the Next Society Symposium - Photo credit: Laure Leber, 1990
Lorenzo Thomas, Ray di Palma, Gary Lenhart, Diane di Prima, Lorna Smedman - Photo credit: Laure Leber
Pedro Pietri - Photo credit: Jacob Burckhardt, 1991
Amiri Baraka
Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman & Robert Creeley
Charles Bernstein, Poetry for the Next Society Symposium - Photo credit: Laure Leber, 1990
Alan Davies, Poetry for the Next Society Symposium - Photo credit: Laure Leber, 1990
Jim Carroll - Photo Credit: Melissa Zexter, 1998
John Ashbery & Kenneth Koch - Photo credit: Laure Leber
Miguel Algarín - Photo credit: Jacob Burckhardt, 1990
Yoshiko Chuma - Photo Credit: Melissa Zexter, 1995

The Poetry Project is one of a kind. Although there are cultural houses in Europe and other venues for poetry, none have the scope and the prestige of the Poetry Project. Here, in Paris, for example, we receive its newsletter and follow its activities. The French poets are themselves very eager to know what goes on in American poetry through the activities of the “Project” which is more than a gathering place and is rather an active participant in a field whose importance is well known through the intellectual circles of the whole world. American poetry is at its most creative phase. It is the most important poetic movement we know of, and its direct influence on poets everywhere is a fact that gives us the responsibility to keep an organization like the Poetry Project alive, and even expanding.

—Etel Adnan

The Poetry Project (booklet, 1974)

Recently unearthed from our collection is this 8″ x 9 1/2″ 1974 booklet for The Poetry Project, printed during Anne Waldman’s Artistic Directorship. The 24-page booklet, with cover art by George Schneeman, includes a number of great photographs taken at the Project, info about The Poetry Project and its staff and individual sections on the Wednesday Night Series, Open Readings, Performance Nights, Guest Poets, Workshops, Lecture Series, Publications, a list of Some of the Poets Who Have Read at The Poetry Project and Biographies of Staff and Workshop Teachers (Past and Present). It’s a real gem!