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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.