Network News: June

​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 and see photographs here. Huge thanks to Jeffrey Lependorf for putting this event together, assisted by Ryan Cook.

Joanna Fuhrman has shared with us a memorial for David Shapiro, with some beautiful tributes from over thirty people, including Joanna, Ron Padgett, Rodger Kamenetz, Alicia Jo Rabins, Joseph Lease, Phil Kline, Kate Farrell, Timothy Liu, David Lehman, Trace Peterson, Renata Hejduk, Jordan Davis, Stephen Paul Miller, Elaine Equi, Vincent Katz, and many others. You can view this via our Youtube channel. David's loss is tremendous.

Olivier Brossard's new poetry collection, Let, is out with P.O.L. : https://www.pol-editeur.com/index.php?spec=livre&ISBN=978-2-8180-6021-6. You can hear Olivier talking about the book here.

Patricia Spears Jones will be reading as part of the Bryant Park Reading Room series, hosted by Jason Schneiderman, on June 11th at 6pm.

Charles Bernstein remembers Paul Auster (and others, with others), for LitHub. You can also read five new poems by Charles, here.

Ann Lauterbach was interviewed by Griffin Prize Trustee Mark Doty, ahead of the Griffin Awards later this month.

​Betsy Porritt's new pamphlet, Oh Unquenchable Thirst, is just out with the wonderful small press Distance No Object (get yourself a copy here).

Michael Shorris wrote about Joan Mitchell and James Schuyler's poem-pastel Daylight (1975) for the Brooklyn Rail.

The new Black Bart Quarterly contains thoughts on Alice Notley, Maureen Owen, Pat Nolan, Anselm Hollo, Julebord #3, No Placebos #7, a new Pierre Reverdy translation by Tinker Greene, Italo Calvino's Six Memos for the Next Millennium newly updated by Andrei Codrescu, and more.

Anne Waldman's Tendrel: A Meeting of Minds is out now with Trident Press. Anne talked about the book, and Naropa, for Boulder Weekly.

John Burnside died earlier this month, and Andrew Epstein reminded us of his gorgeous (among many) poem 'The Day Etta Died', an elegy written after Frank O'Hara, whom the poet also names.

​In some places, it's summer, so here's Frank Lima's 'Summer    (a love poem)'.