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Friday Night Poet’s Potluck — 11/18/11

The Poetry Project — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:22:10 +0000

Photographs by Star Black

Collection of Responses to Stacy Doris’s Life and Work

The Poetry Project — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:07:28 +0000

Poet Laynie Browne is collecting written responses to the life and work of Stacy Doris for an online journal called Volta, where she is a contributing editor. Those interested in contributing can send submissions to us at info@poetryproject.org and we’ll forward them to Laynie.

To listen to Stacy Doris read her work, visit her PennSound page.

You can also read the full text of her book KILDARE (Roof Books) here.

Stacy Doris (1962-2012)

The Poetry Project — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:41:00 +0000

The poetry community has lost someone who touched many lives through her work as a teacher, through her poetry, through the person that she was. We are with heavy heart tonight, and sending love to those closest to her.

The Poetry Project — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:09:57 +0000

The Poetry Project (booklet, 1974)

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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!

More Photographs from the 38th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon Reading

The Poetry Project — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:22:22 +0000

Photographs from the 38th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon Reading

The Poetry Project — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:35:55 +0000

Thank you to Hugh Burckhardt for taking these photos on 1/1/12!

Wednesday Night Series Photographs: Lynn Crawford & Albert Mobilio

The Poetry Project — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:48:26 +0000

The reading by Lynn Crawford and Albert Mobilio on January 11th: Photographs by Star Black.

Albert Mobilio signing his book with Jonathan Morrill and Jennifer Firestone.

John Yau

Lynn Crawford

Louis Bury and Eugene Lim

Two Short Films by Robert O’Haire

The Poetry Project — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:38:19 +0000

Thank you to Robert O’Haire for making these films of Edgar Oliver and John S. Hall with John Kruth. Footage was taken during our 38th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon Reading.

Click here to view the embedded video.

38th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon Reading Exquisite Corpse Broadside

The Poetry Project — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:31:41 +0000

Thanks to Richard O’Russa of ITDO Creative at the Center for Book Arts for designing and printing our 1st ever Marathon performer community poem! Participants were asked to submit a line to create this work, exquisite corpse style. The 52 people who contributed a line will receive the broadside free on the day of the Marathon. Otherwise, we’ll be selling them at the book table for $10 each with all proceeds being added to the cause – to fund more readings and performances for the next year.

From Brendan Lorber, on Behalf of The Poetry Project’s End of the Year Appeal

The Poetry Project — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:00:30 +0000

Dear Friend of The Poetry Project,

What’s worse than poetry? Nothing comes to mind. Maybe this: an entire organization devoted to poetry, staffed by poets, compelled to foster the craft and to support writers whose work exists in a spirited realm beyond categories. How can this organization be allowed to continue? It’s an outrage!

Nevertheless, the people of The Poetry Project continue to defy expectations. They — we, really, for anyone who has set foot in The Project becomes part of it — we are bounding forward into our 46th year, true to the traditions with which we began our first. But it’s not without struggle. We feel the dark economy closing in from all sides, the shadow of expenses covering more and more of the income we labor longer and harder to maintain. Members and donors have kept The Poetry Project aloft since it was just some wild idea a few poets had. It’s this generosity that has most recently helped us overcome the challenge of what could have been a catastrophic rent increase in 2010.

If not for donations from those who value our mission, we would be some long-gone thing people would only reminisce about. The truth is, our golden era begins each time someone discovers a poet in the Parish Hall on a Wednesday night, or stays for the whole New Year’s Marathon — or when someone is inspired to make a donation. Take a minute to think about some great experience you’ve had at The Poetry Project and how your gift ensures you, or someone else, will get to have another one. Then click this link and drop a golden egg or two into your screen. We even have a gift for you if your donation is $50 and up: a limited edition, letter-pressed broadside, printed by Ugly Duckling Presse.

At The Poetry Project we maintain the belief that a poet reading her work to an open audience is a revolutionary act that is vital to our culture, and to whatever comes next. Creating time and space for poets to do this work is at the heart of The Poetry Project’s existence. I hope that you will be able to join us for some of our upcoming events, and I wish you all the best in your endeavors during the coming year.

Warm wishes,

Brendan Lorber

Poet
Poetry Project Member
2011 Workshop Leader