[ 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 [...]
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. [...]
[ Wednesday, May 11, 2011; 8:00 pm; ] Wednesday
Edited by poet David Trinidad and published by Nightboat Books, this volume establishes Tim Dlugos—the witty and innovative poet at the heart of the New York literary scene in the late 1970s and 1980s and seminal poet of the AIDS epidemic—as one of the most distinctive and energetic poets of our time. A host of [...]
[ Saturday, April 30, 2011; 8:00 pm; ] Saturday
Or call it what you will… it’s the poets that are dragging cinema back to the gutter where it belongs. Watch LIVE in the Parish Hall of St. Mark’s as performers Ariana Reines, Eileen Myles, Bruce Andrews, Brandon Downing, Edwin Torres, Felix Bernstein, the trio of Michael Barron, James Copeland, and William Rahilly, and others [...]
[ Thursday, April 28, 2011; 7:00 pm; ] Thursday
ca. 75 minutes, video. Edited by Ethan Mitchell and Stacy Szymaszek.
(Note: this event takes place at Anthology Film Archive, 32 2nd Ave.)
This enticing sampler features moments, glimpses, and words from the wild and woolly PUBLIC ACCESS POETRY a cable TV series produced and directed by Poetry Project stalwarts Gary Lenhart, Greg Masters, David Herz and [...]
[ Wednesday, March 23, 2011; 6:30 pm; ] Wednesday
Paul Blackburn gave a reading on September 22, 1966, and so began the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church-In-the-Bowery. The Project has been a major force in contemporary poetry for 45 years, and run by poets for all of those years. Please join us as we celebrate this aspect of our history by hearing from [...]
[ Monday, September 27, 2010; 8:00 pm; ] Monday
This reading launches the inaugural issue of Vlak, an international magazine with a broad focus on contemporary poetics, art, film, philosophy, music, science, design, politics, performance, ecology, and new media. Vlak is edited by Louis Armand, Edmund Berrigan, Carol Watts, Stephan Delbos, David Vichnar and Clare Wallace. The reading will feature contributors Pierre Joris, Eileen [...]
Eileen Myles featured in Rattapallax.
Produced By Ram Devineni. Co-presented by the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church.
We are all PRE-ORDERING our copies from O/R Books. Two exciting covers to choose from!
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