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YES, there are still on-site tickets
Pre-sale tickets for SPRINGING: A Benefit for The Poetry Project closed at noon today, however there are still 100 tickets that we will be selling at the door for $30. Doors open at 7PM. Our motto, come early, stay late!
Pre-sales for SPRINGING: A Benefit for The Poetry Project Close at Noon on Friday
It’s not officially Spring till you’re SPRINGING at The Poetry Project, this Friday at 8pm. Help us raise $5,000 so we can continue to present our 80+ events per season. We are half-way there. Pre-purchase your ticket by noon on Friday and receive $5 off. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see two innovators play together at St. Mark’s Church with an opening set of poetry to begin the derangement!
The Poetry Project Newsletter: Issues 6-10
The Poetry Project Newsletter #6
Date: May 1, 1973 | Editor: Ron Padgett
“Repressed Content”: An Anthology by Will Edmiston’s Spring Workshop
Repressed Content
By Will Edmiston’s Spring 2012 Workshop
Repressed Content: Excavating the Present with the Poetry Project Archive Workshop Anthology
Contributors: Phyllis Wat, Georgia Faust, Jonathan Soffer, Barry Denny, Helene Chistopoulos, Luz del Alba, Ann Iwashita, Will Edmiston, Dennis Moritz, Bill Considine, Michael McDonough, Gail Tuch, Alan Kleiman, Bill Kushner
Cover by: Luz del Alba
In the last session of the workshop we put together an anthology of our work from the class. These poems were composed, shared and discussed as the class explored The Poetry Project Newsletter, The World, The Project Papers, The Poetry Project Pamphlet, the Fisk audio recordings, Public Access Poetry and specifically the works of Anne Waldman, Alice Notley, Eileen Myles, Bernadette Mayer, Jim Brodey, Ted Berrigan, Lorenzo Thomas, Steve Carey, Paul Violi, John Coletti, John Wieners, W.G. Sebald, Sven Specker, Dana Ward, and Walter Benjamin. Each poet in our class generously took this material into account as we continued to develop our individual poetic practices. In other words, we simply wrote. And wrote and wrote. We translated, transcribed, re-wrote, did free-writing, time traveled, drank, collaborated, hit our heads on the low beam and the sprinkler cages in the basement and wrote some more. Evidence of all that is here in our Repressed Content. Thanks, Will Edmiston
Duo Deal Action: The Project’s Spring Benefit
THE POETRY PROJECT
march 27, 2012
Duo Deal Action: The Project’s Spring Benefit — TOTE BAG OFFER EXPIRES APRIL 9, 2012
Dear Friends,
I’m writing to you today because I want to tell to you about impulse control, tote bags and
SPRINGING — a night of poetry and music so incredible that you may be prevented from
going.
Why? Because discounted advance tickets ($25) for SPRINGING are being offered
exclusively to Members of The Poetry Project from now until April 8*. It’s one of three
tactics they are using to get you to become a Member — but don’t be tricked! Beginning
April 9, remaining tickets will be available to the non-member public — but there may not
be any left. SPRINGING (an event so mind-blowing it rhymes with itself) features a
collaborative performance by John Zorn and Thurston Moore and poetry readings
from LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, erica kaufman and Dana Ward.
Tactic two: The Poetry Project is trying to seduce you with utopic promises of a more
sentient, empathic world through their 46-years of linguistic experiments and community
building. Don’t listen to their siren melody. The idea of a membership is so ludicrous!
And let’s especially resist the Third tactic — offers of sweet, sweet merch. Once you get
tickets to SPRINGING, where are you going to put them? In your brand new First Edition
Poetry Project Tote Bag is where (See how savvy poet & editor Gillian McCain looks in the
picture above). Free with new or renewed membership. If you join or renew now you can be among
the first people on the planet to strut down the avenue with one. Even after next year, when
Canal Street’s choked with knockoff Poesy Lolcat Sportsac Totes, you will still have the original.
Okay, I admit I just renewed my membership — but don’t let my failure sway you. Stay
strong!
Yours,
Brendan Lorber
Poet & Poetry Project Member
*Become a member or renew at any level to receive a Poetry Project tote bag and qualify to
purchase advance tickets for SPRINGING. Already a member? Email info@poetryproject.org
to receive the code to purchase advance tickets via Brown Paper Tickets.
SPRINGING
Visit our Facebook page for more info about pre-purchasing tickets: http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/376062362416097/
The Poetry Project Newsletter: Issues 1-5
The Poetry Project Newsletter #1
Date: December 1, 1972 | Editor: Ron Padgett
Collection of Responses to Stacy Doris’s Life and Work
You can also read the full text of her book KILDARE (Roof Books) here.
