Posts tagged "Reading Report"
John Ashbery
[This event took place on Thursday, May 14, 2009.]
On a warm wet evening, John Ashbery once again embraced his poetic roots and generously read in the sanctuary of St. Marks as part of a triathlon of events held to raise some very much-needed cash for the Poetry Project. (Reader, are you a member? If not, [...]
Reading Report: My Vocabulary Did This To Me: Panel & Reading for The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer
[This event took place on Friday, May 15th, 2009.]
Last Friday night, the Poetry Project celebrated the release of Jack Spicer’s collected poems, My Vocabulary Did This to Me. The room was packed (well both rooms, but I’ll get back to that) and, though Mercury was in retrograde, disrupting communication all over New York City, the [...]
from Edwin Torres – Guest Blogger
May 20, 2009
Hiding behind screens of populated jams, where to find this week’s inch? On The Bowery, in The Bunker, from the travelled lungs of a certified poetry icon.
John Giorno’s reading at the Project last week was one of those pinch-me-I’m-alive events that reboots the mainframe and makes you want to write, perform and bask [...]
Reading Report: Peter Lamborn Wilson
Note – Wilson read with Rob Halpern on Wednesday, March 11, 2009. Go here to read Stacy Szymaszek’s introductions for Peter and Rob.
Many years ago—before the Internet, when I gleaned almost everything I knew about contemporary ideas (outside Montreal) either in conversation or theory I read piecemeal in bookshops—a friend of mine described Hakim Bey [...]
Reading Report: Alison Knowles & Jerome Rothenberg
Two old friends came together to give very different presentations on February 20th, 2008 at the church.
Alison Knowles gave us “North Water Song,” a mesmerizing duet for voice and dancer, to the accompaniment of bell-like chords on electric guitar and occasional recorded tones played on the shakuhachi, more landscape elements than music. Landscape was to [...]
