Posts tagged "Jonas Mekas"

38th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon Benefit Reading

[ 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 [...]

Jonas Mekas – “Note for Allen” – 10/21/09

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We Saw the Light: Conversations Between New American Cinema and Poetry – Talk & Screening

[ Friday, April 30, 2010; 6:30 pm; ] Friday
In We Saw the Light: Conversations Between the New American Cinema and Poetry (University of Iowa Press, 2009), Daniel Kane draws on correspondence and interviews with key figures in innovative cinema and writing of the 1960s to provide a fresh look at film’s influence on poetry. Please join us for a discussion amongst filmmakers and [...]

William Corbett & Jonas Mekas

[ Wednesday, January 20, 2010; 8:00 pm; ] Wednesday
William Corbett is a poet living in Boston’s South End. He teaches writing at MIT, directs the small press Pressed Wafer and is on the advisory board of Manhattan’s CUE Art Foundation. He edited James Schuyler’s letters and his book on Philip Guston’s late work remains in print. His recent books of poetry are Poems [...]