Please join us for a celebration of the first publications from Winter Editions, a new small press recently founded by Matvei Yankelevich. Richard Hell, Garth Graeper, Marina Tëmkina, and Emily Simon will read from their recent Winter Editions books, and Lydia Cortes and Peter Bushyeager will re.
A marathon poetry reading celebrating the late Bernadette Mayer’s iconic book-length poem, "Midwinter Day," is slated Saturday, Jan. 7, at the Lenox Library.
I had arrived at the all too probably named Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute past its ostensible heyday. Founded in 1974 by Waldman and her “spiritual husband” Allen Ginsberg, the school had the reputation of a mountain retreat for the Beat Poets, and their friends in the New York School, and their friends in the Black Mountain school, and their friends in the New Narrative school.