[ Wednesday, April 18, 2012; 8:00 pm; ] Join us to celebrate Library of America’s publication of The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard. Its 450 pages present, for the first time, the full range of Brainard’s writing in all its deadpan wit, madcap inventiveness, self-revealing frankness, and generosity of spirit. With Anselm Berrigan, Lee Ann Brown, Michael Brownstein, Bill Corbett, Donna Dennis, Larry [...]
[ Sunday, January 1, 2012; 3:00 pm; ] There are three things to consider when the New Year’s Day Poetry Marathon sweeps you into its gracefully uncouth embrace — what it is, what it was, and who you will be when it’s over. An untamed gathering of the heart’s secret, wild nobility — over 140 poets together revealing not just that a better [...]
For those of you who celebrated Rosh Hashanah last night or had to watch baseball, here are my introductions for Anselm and David.
Anselm Berrigan’s newest book, Notes from Irrelevance, was just published by Wave Books. Free Cell and To Hell With Sleep were published in 2009. And Have a Good One was published in 2008. I’m [...]
[ Wednesday, September 28, 2011; 8:00 pm; ] Anselm Berrigan’s newest book Notes from Irrelevance, just out from Wave Books, is made of one long poem that puts irrelevance to use by making it a tag for deep depth, getting lost, and willful desire for image dissolution. It’s funny. Last decade he ran The Poetry Project for four years, and right now has [...]
On a cold March night of freezing rain, thunder and lightening, Anne Waldman, Ron Padgett, Bernadette Mayer, Eileen Myles and Ed Friedman gathered at a table in the Parish Hall to talk about their time as Artistic Directors at The Poetry Project. The talk was moderated by poet and Monday Night Readings Coordinator, Macgregor Card. [...]
