Network News: July

​2023 marked the centenary of James Schuyler’s birth. To celebrate, a series of events, Always More Roses, was organised in New York, by Matthew Bevis in collaboration with Dia, NYU, and The Poetry Project. It featured a symposium and readings, some of which were livestreamed and/or recorded. More information about the events and speakers, and the organizations that supported the series, is available here. Following on from these events, future plans include a collection of essays on Schuyler’s work (as poet, novelist, dramatist, diarist, correspondent, and art writer), and an exhibition of his photographs. 
 
Elinor Nauen's new chapbook, The Alphabet's Dilemma, and Bob Rosenthal's new chapbook, Here I am, are both out with CCCP Chapbooks from Subpress Collective - you can get your copies here.

David Beaudouin's beautiful new letterpress collection, Afters, is out with Bowerbox Press.

John Steen wrote a wonderful review of Peter Gizzi's (also wonderful) Fierce Elegy for The Poetry Project Newsletter. Peter will be reading from Fierce Elegy, and in conversation with Anthony Anaxagorou at Foyles in London on Tuesday July 16th (more details here).

Laynie Browne's Everyone and Her Resemblances is out now with Pamenar Press and is gorgeous.

Marcella Durand and Jennifer Firestone's edited collection of essays, Other Influences: An Untold History of Feminist Avant-garde Poetry, is coming out in October with MIT Press. The book contains a stunning array of poets archiving their own lineage through incredibly imaginative essays (including Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Brenda Coultas, Mónica de la Torre, Tonya M. Foster, Renee Gladman, Erica Hunt, Bernadette Mayer, Tracie Morris, Harryette Mullen, Eileen Myles, Sawako Nakayasu, Hoa Nguyen, Julie Patton, KPrevallet, Evelyn Reilly, Trish Salah, Prageeta Sharma, Patricia Spears Jones, Stacy Szymaszek, Anne Tardos, Anne Waldman, and Rosmarie Waldrop). See the press release for more details.

In more exciting Marcella Durand news, her book A Winter Triangle is the 2024 Poetic Justice Institute Book Prize winner, selected by Srikanth Reddy, and will be published fall 2025.

Tausif Noor wrote about Alice Notley for the Summer 2024 Criticism issue of Yale Review. Andrew Epstein has written a great round-up of Alice's recent reviews, interviews, and books, in case anyone has lost track or wants to catch up, as well as a brilliant piece on Frank O'Hara and skateboarding.

Friends of Bernadette Mayer are asking for donations to help open her home, library, and archives to poets, artists, and researchers by spring 2025. The Poetry State Forest project will preserve and restore Bernadette Mayer’s home in East Nassau, NY. The house, and the surrounding woods known as the Poetry State Forest, has served as the site of poetry workshops, readings, and gatherings for over twenty years. Repairs to Bernadette’s house and library will make sure that it remains a space for writers and artists to visit, stay in residence, and honor the legacy of Bernadette. Further details can be found here.

A Marathon Reading of Memory by Bernadette Mayer: on Sunday, July 14, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts—in the heart of the Berkshires where much of Memory takes place—over forty poets, writers, and artists, from near and far, will read the entirety of this monumental and groundbreaking work. Free and open to the public, the reading takes place at the superb Familiar Trees with all 1153 images projected in rotation throughout the day/night. Join Siglio Press to celebrate this singular work, its inimitable author Bernadette Mayer, and the passionate community she nurtured—anytime from 11 a.m. through late into the evening.

The PBS series 'Poetry in America' devoted a recent episode to Frank O'Hara's iconic poem 'Steps', featuring Eileen Myles, Terrance Hayes, Todd Colby, and Robert Pinsky. You can listen to the episode here (with thanks, as ever, to Andrew Epstein for the heads-up).

The Miraculous Season: Selected Poems by Violet Ranney Lang, edited by Rosa Campbell, was John Yau's Summer 2024 recommendation for Hyperallergic. Mark Ford also wrote about Bunny Lang, for the LRB. 

Phong Bui wrote about Willem de Kooning for the Brooklyn Rail.

Sasha Frere-Jones wrote about The Poetry Project for The Nation.

Charles Bernstein's celebration of the radical poetics of invention, The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays and Comedies, is available to pre-order from Chicago University Press.