Poetry Project

The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church was founded in 1966 in the East Village of Manhattan by, among others, the poet and translator Paul Blackburn.[1] It has been a crucial venue for new and experimental poetries for over four decades.

The Project offers a number of reading series, writing workshops, a quarterly newsletter, a website, and audio and document archives. Housed in the historic St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, the grounds are the site of historic memorial readings for poets Paul Blackburn, Allen Ginsberg, Michael Scholnick, W.H. Auden, Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan, and others.

Staffed completely by poets, The Poetry Project consistently achieves an integrity of programming that challenges, informs and inspires working writers, while remaining accessible to the general public. Past Artistic Directors and coordinators of the project have included Joel Oppenheimer, Anne Waldman, Bernadette Mayer, Bob Holman. Ron Padgett, Eileen Myles, Ed Friedman – whose term from 1986 to 2003 was the longest[2] – and Anselm Berrigan and the incumbent artistic director Stacy Szymaszek.

Public Access Poetry

From 1977 until 1978, the New York public-access television show Public Access Poetry (PAP)[3] featuring poets such as Ted Berrigan, Ron Padgett, Eileen Myles, John Yau, Brad Gooch, Alice Notley, Jim Brodey, and more.[4][5] On the show performers and poets gave half-hour readings.[3] In 2011, after launching a sucessful Kickstarter campaign, The Poetry Project was able to restore, preserve and digitize all of the reminding film.[6] In April 2011 with the Anthology Film Archives they presented screenings of highlights of the PAP films.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Literary Organization Detail: Poetry Project at Saint Mark's Church". New York State Literary Tree. Retrieved 2016-04-20.
  2. ↑ Diggory, Terence. Encyclopedia of the New York School Poets. Infobase Publishing (2009)
  3. 1 2 3 "Things to do During NYC Rare Book Week, April 1–8". The Epoch Times. Retrieved 2016-04-20.
  4. ↑ "Jean-François Caro & Camille Pageard, "Welcome to PAP, Public Access Poetry"". f-u-t-u-r-e.org. Retrieved 2016-04-20.
  5. ↑ "Public Access Poetry". www.metafilter.com. Retrieved 2016-04-20.
  6. ↑ "Public Access Poetry". Kickstarter. Retrieved 2016-04-20.

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