The Poetry Project

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

Since its founding the late ’60s, the Poetry Project has been a major force in contemporary American literature. It’s not just an institution but an entire social sphere, where poets and their readers can mingle freely, listen to each other, and come away with new ideas. The current worldwide interest in American and especially New York poetry is a direct result of the presence of The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church.

—John Ashbery

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!