​Your February NNYSS news - or as Pasternak writes, 'February. Get out the ink and weep!':

Jeremy Over's new collection, Fourth & Walnut, is out this month with Carcanet. Equal parts commonplace book, instruction manual and cheerful vandalism, Fourth & Walnut is absurdly joyful, gathering together words from a wide range of favourite writers and artists, erasing some and fooling with others as variations on themes and tunes are tried out. As Sampurna Chattarji writes, it's a book that 'makes you want to stand up and read portions out to passersby, just for the sheer joy of what he brings to the speaking mind'. Please join Jeremy and Matthew Welton for an online book launch at 7pm on Wednesday 26 February. You can register for the launch here.

Peter Gizzi's Fierce Elegy was awarded the T.S. Eliot Prize in January. Prize chair Mimi Khalvati described Fierce Elegy as 'poems that revel in minutiae but also brave the large questions in a lyric sequence of transcendental beauty'.

Donna Dennis's Two Stories with Porch (for Robert Cobuzio) (1977–79) has been acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art's permanent collection.

This month's readings at the Bowery Poetry Club include Marcella Durand, Wanda Phipps, and John Yau (Feb 11th - tomorrow!), Edmund Berrigan, Mike Decapite, Mitch Highfill, and Joel Lewis (Feb 18th), and Jaime Manrique, Nancy Mercado, and Edwin Torres (Feb 25th). In early March (4th), Ed Friedman, Bob Holman, and Bob Rosenthal will read. Doors open at 6.30. More details here.

Jeffrey Lependorf, who has led The Flow Chart Foundation for the past six years, where he developed a rich roster of public programs and oversaw the development of the Ashbery Resource Center, will be moving on to become Executive Director of the John Cage Trust. Jeffrey has been a huge part of all of our events, from getting us all to sing along to Peaches & Herb in Paris to organising last May's Brainard memorial event in Hudson. He'll be much missed at Flow Chart and much treasured at the Cage Trust, where we hope to collaborate with him again.

Julebord #5 is out! Edited by the inestimable Elinor Nauen and Maureen Owen, the fifth issue of this fabulous mimeo is 'dedicated to and in praise song of Hettie Jones, James Bearden, and Michael Brownstein' and features work by poets including Aram Saroyan, Steve Carey, erica kaufman, Maggie Dubris, Anselm Berrigan, and Philip Good.

Keep an eye out for two forthcoming books by Ron Padgett: Dick: A Memoir of Dick Gallup, published by Cuneiform Press (see the cover and read a poem about Dick here) , and Pink Dust, a collection of poems published by New York Review Books.

Daniel Kane's edited selection of Joe Brainard's letters, Love, Joe, was reviewed (sort of!) in the New York Times. If you missed it and/or want to relive it, or just hear some of the letters read aloud, here's a link to the Love, Joe book launch which took place at The Poetry Project.

This month Carcanet are publishing Tom Raworth's 'lost book', Cancer. Martin Stannard wrote about the book for the International Times: read his article here. Martin has also published two new poems, which you can read here.

Archivist Nina Boutsikaris has written about 'Establishing Special Collections at The Ashbery Resource Center' for Metropolitan Archivist.

Matthew Holman is presenting a talk, "Also a Curator: Frank O'Hara at the Museum of Modern Art," in The Modern and Contemporary Art Seminar Series at Cambridge University on March 10th, 17:30-18:30. The location is Lecture Room 2, Faculty of Architecture and History of Art, Scoope Terrace, at the University of Cambridge. 

A little ways off yet, but save the date if you're NYC-based: Alystyre Julian's film Outrider, about Anne Waldman, will premiere at Anthology Film Archives in New York, April 1-3, at 7pm each night. The 90-minute film, executive produced by Martin Scorsese no less, is immersed in the poetry communities constellating around Waldman’s life and legacy in New York – “city of my poems” – from her “hearthome” in Greenwich Village and The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, to the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, and outwards to Big Sur, Morocco, and Mexico.

Finally just a reminder that whilst Nick Sturm and Rosa Campbell have now assumed the co-directorship of the Network, I'm still running this newsletter and welcome any announcements about news, events, publications and so on that you might want to share - just get in touch with me. And if you'd like to unsubscribe just send a blank email to me with 'unsubscribe' in the subject line.

All my best for February,

Rona