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Love, Joe: The Collected Letters of Joe Brainard, edited by Daniel Kane, will be published by Columbia University Press this November. You can read an extract at Paris Review. There will be a book launch on October 30th, 7pm, at the Poetry Project. The evening will include readings by Brad Gooch, Vincent Katz, Anne Waldman, Keith McDermott, Michael Lally, Ron Padgett, and Ann Lauterbach—reading aloud from and discussing the letters included in Love, Joe, with others TBA. Details here.
There's also an interview between Peter Schjeldahl and James Schuyler in Paris Review. Paolo Javier's Near Your Mirror Home (Stay On) is out on November 1st with Poets of Queens. He's launching the book on November 17th at the World's Borough Bookshop in Jackson Heights, and reading at McNally Jackson on December 6th. Elinor Nauen and Maureen Owen's gorgeous zine Julebord #4 is out, dedicated to Lyn Hejinian, Tyrone Williams, Jerome Rothenberg, Paul Auster, David Shapiro, Etel Adnan, Marjorie Perloff and Ken Jordan. It features work by poets and artists including Ron Padgett, Anne Waldman, Michael Lally, Charles and Paula North, Rona Cran, Simon Schuchat, Bob Rosenthal, Hiroaki Sato, and Charlotte Carter among others. You can read more about Julebord on Elinor's blog. Al Filreis convened Thomas Devaney, JS Wu, and Vincent Katz for PoemTalk (#199) to talk about two poems by Edwin Denby. The two poems are “The Subway” and “Ciampino: Envoi.” You can find out more and listen here: https://jacket2.org/podcasts/not-buy-poemtalk-199. The first meeting of Kenneth Koch Book Club took place on Sunday October 6, discussing Thank You and Other Poems, led by Andrew Epstein. There's a great upcoming roster of hosts and books through February, when the in-person and international Centenary events get underway:
Women in Independent Publishing: A History of Unsung Innovators, 1953-1989, edited by Stephanie Anderson, will be out with the University of New Mexico Press in December. The book is a collection of interviews with and resources about women actively engaged in small-press publishing between the 1950s and the 1980s. The interviewees include Rosmarie Waldrop, Maureen Owen, Alice Notley, Barbara Barg and Rose Lesniak, Patricia Spears Jones, Eileen Myles, Lee Anne Brown, Bernadette Mayer, and many others. On September 26th Patricia Spears Jones was celebrated at the Schomberg Center, in conversation with Brent Hayes Edwards. You can watch the event here. Her collection The Beloved Community is a 2024 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award finalist. Other Influences: An Untold History of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry, edited by Marcella Durand and Jennifer Firestone is out on October 29th, with MIT Press. There's a book launch on the 29th, featuring Anne Waldman, Tracie Morris, Erica Hunt, Patricia Spears Jones and Mónica de la Torre, among others - details here. Anne Waldman was interviewed by Sandra Simonds for the Bennington Review. Peter Gizzi's Fierce Elegy has been shortlisted for the 2024 T. S. Eliot Prize. Tickets for the shortlist readings, on January 12th, are on sale here. Rowland Bagnall wrote about Rosa Campbell's The Miraculous Season: Selected Poems by Bunny Lang for the TLS. Kathryn Scanlan wrote about Alice Notley's Being Reflected Upon for The Nation. We were really sorry to hear that Beat/New York School poet Michael Brownstein died on September 18th: Brownstein moved to New York in 1965 and was very much a part of The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church. 1967's Behind the Wheel was published with 'C' press, with cover artwork by Alex Katz, and his 1969 collection, Highway to the Sky, won a Frank O'Hara Award. Here's a poem of his, about/not about dogs and trumpets, that I really love. The Allen Ginsberg Project has put together a set of resources in memory of him. |
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