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Joe Brainard: A Gathering
Joe Brainard: A Gathering took place at The Flow Chart Foundation in Hudson, on Saturday 18th May, to mark thirty years since Joe's death. The day began with a screening of Matt Wolf's film I Remember: A Film About Joe Brainard (2024), followed by a reading, by Lucy Sante, of her 'I Remember the Fabled Rat Man (Apologies to Joe Brainard)' (2016). Sante and Wolfe then talked to each other about these works, and about Brainard, and how they found themselves immersed in his work. Poet and art writer John Yau then gave an illustrated talk about Brainard's life and work, before being joined in conversation by Tyhe Cooper, poet and poetry curator at the Brooklyn Rail. After lunch, poet and scholar Rona Cran gave a talk called 'I Remember Collage: Joe Brainard and John Ashbery, doing and making', and fellow poet-scholar Betsy Porritt led a collage-poetry writing workshop. Poets Paolo Javier and Ann Lauterbach closed out the day with two beautiful talks, the former on Brainard, poetry, and comics, and the latter on her friendship with Joe, as well as a reading of her 'Seven Songs for Joe Brainard'.
You can watch video footage of the event here.
Huge thanks The Flow Chart Foundation for hosting this event, and to Jeffrey Lependorf for co-organizing it with us, with the outstanding assistance of Ryan Cook.
'these little oases':
New York City Symposium, 2023
You can listen to the recording of “these little oases:” A Gathering on YouTube here.
The New York School,
Around and Beyond:
London, 2023
Click on the links below to listen to the talks and poetry readings that took place at our London Symposium, Senate House, 27th May 2023. Alternatively, you can listen on our Youtube channel. The slides for the roundtable discussion presentations are also linked below.
Introductory Talks
Will Montgomery (Poetics Research Centre, Royal Holloway), 'Two Colonial Hours with Barbara Guest'
Redell Olsen (Poetics Research Centre, Royal Holloway), 'Barbara Guest's The Countess of Minneapolis'
Poetry Readings
Jeremy Over, Betsy Porritt, Rona Cran, Peter Robinson (introductions by Ameek Gilhotra)
Mark Ford, Agnieszka Studzinska, Robert Hampson, Karenjit Sandhu (introductions by Betsy Porritt)
Roundtable Discussion: Around and Beyond the New York School (chaired by Geoff Ward)
Nick Selby – Painting by numbers: ecological consciousness in Robert Creeley’s Pieces
Martyna Szot – ‘I can’t believe that when they see me and talk to me they will still want me’: Social and Artistic Insecurities in Joe Brainard’s Letters to Ron Padgett
Heleina Burton – ‘In forgotten letters’: Open reading and Ashbery’s poetics of enclosure and disclosure
Sonia Quintero – ‘Poetry with an accent’: grassroots creative writing activities with marginalized communities and speakers of English as a second/third language
Matt Sowerby – On Kirkby Lonsdale Poetry Festival
Briony Hughes and Caroline Harris – ‘Tentacles in many different spheres’: Being a small poetry press in the 21st century
Headline Poetry Readings
Denise Riley, Charles Bernstein, and Alice Notley
What We Talk About When We Talk About the New York School
Symposium and Poetry Reading
Paris, 2022
To watch the videos individually, please click the links below. Alternatively, you can view our symposium playlist on our YouTube channel.
Rona Cran - Symposium Welcome
Mae Losasso - Imagined Architectures, Material Poetics: Barbara Guest's Blue Stairs
Ella O'Keefe - 'It frees her and frees me': Barbara Guest and the Poem-Painting
Matthew Rana - The Cinema of Bernadette Mayer
Holly Pester - Hannah Weiner's Sink - a poem and a short talk
Chiara Shea - John Ashbery and 'The New York School'
Jeffrey Lependorf - Some Things About John Ashbery
Craig Reardon - ABCs of the ARC: A Bibliographic Overview of the Ashbery Resource Center
Rona Cran - Queer Transport: John Ashbery's Poetry of the AIDS Pandemic
Luke Kennard - The Influence of John Ashbery: a short reading and discussion
Lee Ann Brown - Some Thoughts on Collage and Improvisation in the Poetry of Frank O’Hara, Joe Brainard and Bernadette Mayer
Matthew Holman - Frank O’Hara’s Curation of the Recent American Watercolors exhibition (1956)
Tony Torn - Try Try and Try Again: Frank O'Hara's Personism at Play
Thirza Wakefield - Difference, Indecency, and Personality: Reflections on Frank O'Hara and D. H. Lawrence
Lindsay Turner - The legacy of the New York School in the work of the French poet-translator Stéphane Bouquet
Kristen Tapson - ‘I Know I Mean We’: Editing the Mayer-Coolidge Correspondence
Nick Sturm - Provisional New York Schools: Little Magazines and Generational Thinking
Rosa Campbell - The Poets’ Home Companion Handy Poem Writing Guide (For Authentic New York School Poems)
Martin George - John Giorno: Redefining New York School Poetry
Daniel Kane - Love, Joe: Talking About and Loving the Letters of Joe Brainard
Poetry Evening: with Lee Ann Brown, Lindsay Turner, Stéphane Bouquet, Sabine Macher, Abigail Lang, and Olivier Brossard, and, the following day, Alice Notley.
Lee Ann Brown (with Sabine Macher and Stéphane Bouquet)
Stéphane Bouquet, Abigail Lang, and Olivier Brossard
Alice Notley (this reading took place the following day, and was part of the Poets&Critics symposium on her work)