{"product_id":"what-is-poetry-just-kidding-i-know-you-know-interviews-from-the-poetry-project-newsletter-1983-2009-paperback","title":"What Is Poetry? (Just Kidding, I Know You Know): Interviews from the Poetry Project Newsletter (1983 - 2009) - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnselm Berrigan\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church was founded in 1966 for the overlapping circles of poets in the Lower East Side of New York. These interviews from \u003ci\u003eThe Poetry Project Newsletter \u003c\/i\u003eform a kind of conversation over time between some of the late 20th century's most influential poets and artists, who have come together in this legendary venue over the past 50 years. Includes interviews with Charles North, Anne Waldman, Bernadette Mayer, David Rattray, Allen Ginsberg, Kenneth Koch, Harryette Mullen, Barbara Henning, David Henderson, Lisa Jarnot, Alice Notley, Ed Sanders, Samuel Delany, Harry Matthews, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Renee Gladman, Lorenzo Thomas, Fred Moten, Stan Brakhage, Alex Katz, Lewis Warsh, Ron Padgett, Maggie Nelson, Wayne Koestenbaum, Eileen Myles, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI find it one of the liveliest points of communication in the American poetry world. There is an incredible excitement to come to the church and read one's poems to the many other poets who congregate there, drawn to the church by its own energy and thrust.--Donald Hall\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the introduction, by Anselm Berrigan: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor the poets closely involved with the Poetry Project since, and subsequent to, its inception, the interviews were an opportunity to speak directly to a community one could perceive as known, imaginary, expanding, unwieldy, intermittent, formative, desperately necessary, and sometimes peculiarly unsatisfying all at once. Community being the kind of term that often implies everything and nothing simultaneously, with the bottom falling out of the word depending on who happens to be wielding it. Poets can be particularly adept at using and exposing such terms.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnselm Berrigan is the author of seven books of poetry: \u003ci\u003eCome In Alone\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2016), \u003ci\u003ePrimitive State\u003c\/i\u003e (Edge, 2015), \u003ci\u003eNotes from Irrelevance\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2011), \u003ci\u003eFree Cell\u003c\/i\u003e (City Lights Books, 2009), \u003ci\u003eSome Notes on My Programming\u003c\/i\u003e (Edge, 2006), \u003ci\u003eZero Star Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e (Edge, 2002), and \u003ci\u003eIntegrity and Dramatic Life\u003c\/i\u003e (Edge, 1999). He is also co-author of two collaborative books: \u003ci\u003eLoading\u003c\/i\u003e, with visual artist Jonathan Allen (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2013), and \u003ci\u003eSkasers\u003c\/i\u003e, with poet John Coletti (Flowers \u0026amp; Cream, 2012). He is the current poetry editor for \u003ci\u003eThe Brooklyn Rail\u003c\/i\u003e, and co-editor with Alice Notley and Edmund Berrigan of \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan\u003c\/i\u003e (U. California, 2005) and the \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems of Ted Berrigan\u003c\/i\u003e (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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 440\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 8.3 x 6.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 04, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769861898528,"sku":"9781940696393","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0648728e8e9e5dd1a6886f2af89a100e.webp?v=1780358527","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/what-is-poetry-just-kidding-i-know-you-know-interviews-from-the-poetry-project-newsletter-1983-2009-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}