Posts tagged "Introductions"
Introductions for Joanna Fuhrman & John Koethe
Joanna Fuhrman is the author of three collections published by Hanging Loose Press, most recently Moraine. Her new book, Pageant, has just been released by Alice James Books. From 2001-2003, she was the Monday Night Reading Series coordinator here at the Poetry Project. She teaches creative writing at Rutgers University and in public schools and [...]
Introductions for Will Alexander & Edwin Torres – 11/4/09
Will Alexander is a poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and visual artist who lives in Los Angeles, the city where he was born in 1948. He was the recipient of a Whiting Fellowship for Poetry in 2001 and a California Arts Council Fellowship in 2002. Over the years he has worked several jobs (including the LA [...]
Introductions for Robert Glück & Eileen Myles – 10/28/09
Robert Glück is the author of nine books of poetry and fiction, including two novels, Margery Kempe and Jack the Modernist and a book of stories, Denny Smith. Gluck edited, along with Camille Roy, Mary Berger and Gail Scott, the anthology Biting The Error: Writers on Narrative. Glück was Director of The Poetry Center at [...]
Introductions for Micah Ballard & Dawn Lundy Martin – 10/26/09
This was a Monday Night reading. Intros by Dustin Williamson.
Micah Ballard lives in San Francisco and is co-editor for Auguste Press. Recent books of his include Absinthian Journal, Bettina Coffin, Negative Capability in the Verse of John Wieners, Evangeline Downs, Parish Krewes, and the collaborations Death Race V.S.O.P. and Easy Eden.
Micah Ballard’s poems are always [...]
Introductions for Christopher Nealon & Catherine Wagner – 10/21/09
Christopher Nealon is the author of two books of poems, The Joyous Age (Black Square Editions, 2004) and Plummet (Edge Books, 2009). He is also the author of a book of criticism, Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Emotion before Stonewall (Duke, 2001) and a forthcoming book called The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Spectacle in the [...]
Introduction for John Ashbery by Charles North – 14 May 09
It’s not often one gets to introduce a hero, and I thank Stacy for inviting me.
Not to put too fine a point on it—but isn’t it time for John’s urine to be tested? Most poets, as we all know, like ballplayers who don’t take steroids, don’t “produce”—really produce—after the age of 40; that is, if [...]
Introductions for Norma Cole & Bill Berkson – 22 April 09
Norma Cole is a poet, painter and translator. Among her books are Collective Memory, Do the Monkey, and Spinoza in Her Youth. Where Shadows Will: Selected Poems 1988—2008 makes its debut tonight, express mailed to us from City Lights. Translation work includes Danielle Collobert’s Journals, Fouad Gabriel Naffah’s The Spirit God and the Properties of [...]
Introductions for Ruxandra Cesereanu & Andrei Codrescu – 15 April 09
Ruxandra Cesereanu is one of Romania’s best-known poets, the author, among other books, of The Garden of Delights, Live Zone, Venice with Violet Veins and The Crusader Woman published by Black Widow Press in 2008, translated by the poet with Adam Sorkin and others. She also wrote a book-length collaborative poem called Forgiven Submarine [...]
Introductions for Dolores Dorantes & Laura Solórzano – 1 April 09
Dolores Dorantes’s most recent books include sexoPUROsexoVELOZ (2004) and Lola (cartas cortas) (2002). A translation of sexoPUROsexoVELOZ and Septiembre, books two and three of Dolores Dorantes by Dolores Dorantes, have been translated by Jen Hofer and published by Counterpath Press and Kenning Editions. Dorantes was born in Veracruz in 1973 and has lived most of [...]
Introductions for Jayne Cortez & Sherman Alexie – 25 March 09
Jayne Cortez is the author of eleven books of poetry and performer of her poems with music on nine recordings. Her voice is celebrated for its political, surrealistic, dynamic innovations in lyricism, and visceral sound. Her most recent book is On the Imperial Highway: New and Selected Poems (Hanging Loose Press). Her latest CDs with [...]
