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A selection of interviews and rare photos from the legendary St. Mark's Poetry Project for its 50th anniversary season.
List of contents
Introduction by Anselm Berrigan
The New York Poetry Scene / Short Form- Charles North
Talking with Red Grooms: An Interview by Anne Waldman
Translation as Puzzle and Performance: An Interview with Paul Schmidt (by Tim Dlugos)
The Colors of Consonance: Bernadette Mayer Talks....
Taking Risks Seriously: David Rattray Talks....
Allen Ginsberg & Kenneth Koch: From A Conversation
An Interview with Harryette Mullen by Barbara Henning
An Interview with David Henderson by Lisa Jarnot
An Interview with Alice Notley by Judith Goldman
An Interview with John Godfrey by Lisa Jarnot
An Interview with Ed Sanders by Lisa Jarnot
An Interview with Victor Hernandez Cruz by Sheila Alson
An Interview with Bernadette Mayer by Lisa Jarnot
An Interview with Kenneth Koch by Daniel Kane
A Silent Interview with Samuel R. Delany
To Buffalo and Back with Renee Gladman: Interview by Magdalena Zurawski
A Conversation with Lorenzo Thomas by Dale Smith
An Interview with Fred Moten by Ange Mlinko
Lisa Jarnot interviews Stan Brakhage
Interview with Charles North by Ange Mlinko
"Surprise Each Other": Anne Waldman on Collaboration by Lisa Birman
Interview with Alex Katz by Vincent Katz
Adventures in Poetry: An Interview with Larry Fagin
Tina Darragh interviewed by Marcella Durand
Lewis Warsh interviewed by Peter Bushyeager
Jack Collom talks Spandrels, Foxez, and Receding Paths with Marcella Durand
Anne Waldman Talks Poetry Infrastructure, Safe "Zones", and Other Versions of the World with Marcella Durand
Edwin Torres Talks Interactive Eclecticism, Banana Peels, and Walking in Your Calling with Marcella Durand
Harry Mathews Reveals the Inside Story to Marcella Durand
Brenda Coultas Tells the Truth to Marcella Durand
Akilah Oliver Talks to Rachel Levitsky
Will Alexander: A Profound Investigation, with Marcella Durand
Ron Padgett Lifts Off, with Edmund Berrigan
Wayne Koestenbaum and Maggie Nelson In Conversation
Knowing Isn't Enough: A Conversation with John Trudell, by Brendan Lorber
An Interview with Ted Greenwald by Arlo Quint
An Interview with Eileen Myles, by Greg Fuchs
10 Questions for Bruce Andrews and Sally Silvers
About the author
Anselm Berrigan is the author of seven books of poetry: Come In Alone (Wave Books, 2016), Primitive State (Edge, 2015), Notes from Irrelevance (Wave Books, 2011), Free Cell (City Lights Books, 2009), Some Notes on My Programming (Edge, 2006), Zero Star Hotel (Edge, 2002), and Integrity and Dramatic Life (Edge, 1999). He is also co-author of two collaborative books: Loading, with visual artist Jonathan Allen (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2013), and Skasers, with poet John Coletti (Flowers & Cream, 2012). He is the current poetry editor for The Brooklyn Rail, and co-editor with Alice Notley and Edmund Berrigan of The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan (U. California, 2005) and the Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan (U. California, 2011). From 2003-2007 he was Artistic Director of The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, where he also hosted the Wednesday Night Reading Series for four years. He is Co-Chair, Writing at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts interdisciplinary MFA program, and also teaches part-time at Brooklyn College. He was awarded a 2015 Process Space Residency by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and in 2014 he was awarded a Robert Rauschenberg Residency by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. He was a New York State Foundation for the Arts fellow in Poetry for 2007, and has received three grants from the Fund for Poetry. He lives in New York City, where he also grew up.
Summary
A selection of interviews and rare photos from the legendary St. Mark's Poetry Project for its 50th anniversary season.
