April Network News ('We dust the walls / And of course we are weeping larks')

Join us, and The Flow Chart Foundation, on Saturday 18th May, for Flow Chart's annual Gathering, this year celebrating the life and work of Joe Brainard. I Remember Joe: A Gathering will feature readings, talks, participatory events, and more, with confirmed presenters including Lucy Sante, Matt Wolf, John Yau, Rona Cran, Betsy Porritt, Jeffrey Lependorf, Ann Lauterbach, Tyhe Cooper, and Paolo Javier. More details can be found here.

Patricia Spears Jones has been awarded the Porter Fund's Lifetime Achievement Award, a prize awarded every five years to an Arkansas writer with a substantial and recognized body of work. Congratulations Patricia! You can read more about the award, and Patricia's work, here.

Donna Dennis has a solo show, Houses and Hotels, on view until April 28 at O'Flaherty's in New York. The exhibit highlights some of the early sculptures that helped launch her career in the 1970s. On April 19, Bamberger Books will release Writing Toward Dawn: Selected Journals 1969–1982, which traces the artist's coming-of-age on New York's downtown scene.

Alice Notley's new collection, a memoir in verse called Being Reflected Upon, is out now with Penguin. On Wednesday April 10th, Alice will be joined at The Poetry Project by Anne Waldman, to whom Being Reflected Upon is dedicated, for a celebration of the book. Details here. There's an interview with Alice, by Janique Vigier, in Harper's, and one in Paris Review ('The Art of Poetry No. 116'), by Hannah Zeavin. Alice also has a piece on what it feels like to write a poem in the latest issue of Brooklyn Rail.

On April 4th, 3pm ET, Ron Silliman is leading The Flow Chart Foundation's latest installment of Close Readings in a Virtual Space, when he will think and read through 'All the Whiskey in Heaven' by Charles Bernstein. More details here.

Flow Chart's President, Mandana Chaffa, interviewed the 24th US Poet Laureate, Ada Limón, for Brooklyn Rail, whilst Jenny Wu wrote about Maggie Nelson.

PoemTalk #194, 'Hack my name', features Lee Ann Brown and Laynie Browne among others talking about two poems by Veronica Forrest-Thomson - you can listen to/read about the episode here.

Later this month (25-26 April), John Yau will be in Paris at the latest Poets and Critics Symposium, for an in-depth discussion of his work. There will also be a reading with John Yau and his translator Marc Chénetier, at atelier Michael Woolworth, celebrating the publication of Une autre façon d’écrire sur le sable, Selected Poems by John Yau, edited and translated by Chénetier (joca seria, 2024).

There will be a book party at Tibor de Nagy Gallery (see the Jess show too) on Saturday April 6th, 5-7pm, to celebrate three new books: Charles North, News, Poetry and Poplars (Black Square Editions); Joseph Richie, Fathom (Gnosis Press); and Eugene Richie, Only Here, Between (Gnosis Press). Congratulations all!

Next month, on Saturday May 4th, Anne Waldman and Gerard Malanga will read at the Flow Chart Foundation. More details here.

May 1st will see the launch at The Poetry Project of Breathlehem: The Selected Poetry of Jim Brodey, edited by Peter Valente and with an introduction by Bill Zavatsky, and published by Local Knowledge Press.

Lytle Shaw wrote about Lyn Hejinian for Jacket2.

Martin Stannard reviewed V. R. 'Bunny' Lang's The Miraculous Season: Selected Poems, ed. Rosa Campbell (Carcanet, 2024).

Jaap van der Bent reviewed John Wieners's PENTE: a book of woe, eds. Patricia Hope Scanlan and Libby Musso Dacre (Artery Editions, 2023).

We were so sorry to hear of the death in late March, just a few days before Frank O'Hara's birthday, of Marjorie Perloff. We had great fun interviewing her, less than a year ago (an interview you can watch here). Ever generous, funny, and provocative, she'll be much missed.