Posts tagged "Tom Carey"

Tom Carey — excerpt from “Small Crimes” — 12/7/11

Tom Carey

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 [...]

Tom Carey & Jaime Manrique

[ Wednesday, December 7, 2011; 8:00 pm; ] Tom Carey was born in Santa Monica CA, and grew up in Sherman Oaks, a suburb of L.A. in the San Fernando Valley.  His father and grandfathers were western movie actors, and Tom himself studied theater at the Actors’ and Directors’ Lab and with the Stella Adler Theater Studio.  You can catch a glimpse of [...]

A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos

[ 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 [...]

Other Flowers: A Celebration of James Schuyler

[ Wednesday, April 21, 2010; 8:00 pm; ] Wednesday
Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems, edited by Simon Pettet and James Meetze, brings together 165 unseen poems from Schuyler, spanning from the early 1950s until his death in 1991. Featuring both editors with Anselm Berrigan, Tom Carey, John Coletti, Bill Corbett, Elaine Equi, Jonathan Galassi, Vincent Katz, Eileen Myles, Charles North, Arlo Quint, Stacy Szymaszek, Susie [...]