Search This Blog

Showing posts with label The Poetry Project. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Poetry Project. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Welcome 2017 with poetry!

Dance artist Yoshiko Chuma
(photo: Jacob Burckhardt)


43rd Annual 
New Year’s Day 
Marathon Benefit Reading for


Sunday, January 1, 2017
3pm to 2am

St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery

150 poets, musicians, dancers, and other artists
celebrate The Poetry Project's 50th anniversary!


Above: poet Pamela Sneed
(photo: Jacob Burckhardt)
Below: singer/performance artist Justin Vivian Bond
(photo: Ted Roeder)


Featuring the reading’s founder Anne Waldman, 75 Dollar Bill, Penny Arcade, Justin Vivian Bond, Yoshiko Chuma, Andrei Codrescu, Grace Dunham, Douglas Dunn, Andrew Durbin, John Giorno, Che Gossett, Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves, M. Lamar, Jonas Mekas, Thurston Moore, Tracie Morris, Eileen Myles, Edgar Oliver, Tommy Pico, Yvonne Rainer, Reno, Sarah Schulman, Elliott Sharp, Pamela Sneed, Tammy Faye Starlight, Nurit Tilles, Lynne Tillman, Edwin Torres, Rachel Trachtenburg, Hannif Willis-Abdurraqib, Martha Wilson, John Yau, and many more.

Full lineup of performers: poetryproject.org.

Admission: 
$20 (in advance)
$25/$20 students/seniors (at the door)

Advance tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2717668

Food and refreshments will be available. Seating is available on a first come, first-served basis. The Poetry Project is wheelchair-accessible with assistance and advance notice; please call 212-674-0910 for more information.

The Poetry Project
St. Mark’s Church
131 East 10th Street (2nd Avenue), Manhattan
(map/directions)

If you like what you're reading,
subscribe to InfiniteBody!

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Lisa Jarnot, Claudia Rankine to read, Poetry Project

The Poetry Project
presents

Lisa Jarnot and Claudia Rankine

December 17, 8pm

Lisa Jarnot is the author of six collections of poetry and a biography of the poet Robert Duncan (The Ambassador from Venus, 2012, University of California Press). She lives in Jackson Heights, Queens with her husband and daughter and works as a freelance gardener.

Claudia Rankine is the author of several collections of poetry, most recently Citizen, which was realeased by Graywolf in October 2014 and has since been nominated for a National Book Award. Rankine currently teaches at Pomona College.

Facebook event page

The Poetry Project
131 East 10th Street (off Second Avenue), Manhattan
(map/directions)

Copyright notice

Copyright © 2007-2023 Eva Yaa Asantewaa
All Rights Reserved

Popular Posts

Labels