February 26-28
Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program
Feb 26th Lecture & Reading by Anne Waldman
Feb 27th– 10 m- 6 pm workshop
More information to come….
Reading for Frances LeFevre’s “Dearist Annie, You wanted a report of the Berkson Class…” from Hanging Loose Press
with Anne Waldman, Lisa Birman, Charles North, Ron Padgett, Ambrose Bye, and others
Letters from 1966 by Frances LeFevre (Waldman)
The Poetry Project at St Mark’s Chuck In-the Bowery
131 E. 10th Street, New York, NY 10003
Performance with Meredith Monk
Slides by Pat Steir
Music by Ambrose Bye
Details & specifics to come…
Institute of Contemporary Arts
Boston, MA
The Cutting Room Presents:
Max’s Kansas City’s 50th Anniversary Benefit: A Tribute to the Velvet Underground & Lou Reed
Thursday, January 14, 2016
Doors: 7:30 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Cutting Room
New York, NY
$60 advance tickets
http://tickets.thecuttingroomnyc.com/event/1031217-maxs-kansas-citys-50th-new-york/
To commemorate Max’s 50th Anniversary, the Max’s Kansas City Project, established in 2001, by Yvonne R. Sewall, will recreate some of the Magic with two special events in January and February to start the New Year with an infusion of electrifying energy, a tribute concert to the iconic Velvet Underground and Lou Reed, January 14, and a Meet and Greet the artists and photographers 50th Anniversary reunion party/exhibition/auction, February 11. The Max’s Project embraces Mickey Ruskin’s ( the creator of Max’s Kansas City and a staunch supporter of the arts), philosophy, of helping artists in need by providing emergency relief and resources for individuals in the arts in crisis, and has in development a teen empowerment through the arts program FEARLESS YOUTH featuring and interactive virtual club, supporting teens in developing their uniqueness through the creative arts with a focus on substance abuse and suicide Prevention.
The Velvet Underground/Lou Reed Tribute Concert will be a night to remember withan amazing line-up of talent with a Max’s All Star Band featuring musicians from Lou Reed’s various bands: Mike Rathke (guitar), Ellard-James “Moose Boles (bass) Michael Suchorsky (drums) Marty Fogel (sax). Other special talent includes Garland Jeffreys, Marshall Crenshaw, Lenny Kaye, Jenni Muldaur, Richard Barone,Bebe Buell, Tim Moore, Connor Kennedy, Sylvia Reed, Donna Destri, Monica Behan,Will Hermes, Kimberly Hill (formerly lead singer with the Black Eyed Peas), poet Anne Waldman, Angela McCluskey, Paul Cantelon, and the “Cadillacs,” a Lou Reed tribute band featuring Andrew Kowalczyk on vocals. Cadillacs musicians: Chieli Minucci, Brian Kelly, Pete Best & Clint Bahr. “Surprise Guests” can be anticipated, which was always a tradition at Max’s. Perennial Max’s ‘master of ceremonies’ Jimi LaLumia and Sylvia Reed will emcee the show.
Max’s 50th Anniversary Meet and Greet the Artists and Photographers Reunion Party/Exhibition/Auction will take place at the Chelsea Hotel Gallery in partnership with The Chelsea Hotels and Paddle8, FEBRUARY 11, 222 W 23rd St. 7:30-10pm, $100. The exhibition includes selected artworks, rock photography, rock memorabilia, and originally designed jewelry from their impeccable donated collection. A sampling of these works include Lawrence Weiner, Dan Christensen, Larry Bell, Ronnie Landfield, Larry Poons, Joseph Kosuth, Francine Tint, Barbara Thomas, Bob Gruen, Marcia Resnick, Anton Perich, Dustin Pittman, Roberta Bayley, and many more. Some of the collection can be viewed in the gallery on our website: www.maxskansascity.org
The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church
131 E. 10th Street, New York, NY 10003
There are three things to consider when the New Year’s Day Poetry Marathon sweeps you into its gracefully uncouth embrace — what it is, what it was, and who you will be when it’s over. An untamed gathering of the heart’s secret, wild nobility — over 140 poets together revealing not just that a better life could exist, but that it already does, sexy and wise, rancorous and sweet, big hearted and mad as hell. An avenging engine of resistance and eager vehicle of the nascent year. The Marathon measures its success through insurrectionist reframings of the universe, an in-it-together courage that crafts a community out of the riot of lineages and traditions we all emerge from. This collective effort also helps fund as many as 85 additional events every year — not to mention The Poetry Project Newsletter, The Recluse and legendary workshops. It’s our largest fundraiser of the year, and arguably the most inspired ongoing literary event in the city.
Since Anne Waldman gathered 31 poets at the very first marathon on January 2, 1974, countless forward-facing luminaries have thrown their voices into the cauldron — among them Eric Bogosian, William S. Burroughs, Spalding Gray, Jackson Mac Low, Ed Sanders, Pedro Pietri, Helen Adam, John Cage, Joe Ceravolo, John Giorno, Ted Berrigan, Yoko Ono, Amiri Baraka, Gordon Matta Clark, Jim Carroll, Bernadette Mayer, Alice Notley, Steve Cannon, Hannah Weiner, Kathy Acker, Arthur Russell, Gerard Malanga, Suzanne Vega, Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith, and Philip Glass. The list grows every year, as does the roster small press publishers and local restaurants who donate deliciousness in the form of astounding books, journals and food. We’re not so secretly in love with them all — and with the 75 selfless volunteers too who keep the Marathon running.
Whether you stay for a little while or for the long haul, whether you’re part of the standing room only experience at sunset or with the handful of diehards as the final poet reads her last word in the predawn sanctuary, you will be transformed for the year to come. Your presence helps launch a great flare into the otherwise impenetrable darkness of the 21st century night. And in that flash, you will become what you were always meant to be, eager practitioner of the infinite, uncommodifiable, uncategorizable, rough around the elegant edges and ready for the world to hit you with its best shot. Get lost, end times — our calendar is all opening days. Come on in, new year, we’d like to introduce you to your own gigantic possibilities.
December 17-19, 2015
Thursday-Saturday at 8:00PM
$25 General / $20 Danspace members
DANSPACE PROJECT
131 East 10th Street
New York, NY 10003
Two fearless legends of NYC performance come together at Danspace Project for their first ever collaboration.
Meredith Monk, currently celebrating her 50th Season and one “one of contemporary music’s great innovators” (Classical Review), is a leader in interdisciplinary performance and an originator of extended vocal technique. As part of the evening Monk will be joined by members of her Vocal Ensemble to present selections from a new work-in-progress, Cellular Songs, a lyrical meditation based in part on her study of epigenetics.
“Anne Waldman’s work is the antithesis of stasis…She is a force of nature…a flame” (Quarterly Conversation). Waldman, a poet, author, playwright, and activist, co-founded (with Allen Ginsberg) the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University and The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery.
Both notorious for their mesmerizing stage presences, Monk and Waldman’s paths have crossed many times; this is the first time they will appear on stage together. Danspace is thrilled to present this singular night of new work, solo sets, and some delightful surprises.
Meredith Monk by Julieta Cervantes, Anne Waldman by Nina Subin.
December 17-19, 2015
Thursday-Saturday at 8:00PM
$25 General / $20 Danspace members
DANSPACE PROJECT
131 East 10th Street
New York, NY 10003
Two fearless legends of NYC performance come together at Danspace Project for their first ever collaboration.
Meredith Monk, currently celebrating her 50th Season and one “one of contemporary music’s great innovators” (Classical Review), is a leader in interdisciplinary performance and an originator of extended vocal technique. As part of the evening Monk will be joined by members of her Vocal Ensemble to present selections from a new work-in-progress, Cellular Songs, a lyrical meditation based in part on her study of epigenetics.
“Anne Waldman’s work is the antithesis of stasis…She is a force of nature…a flame” (Quarterly Conversation). Waldman, a poet, author, playwright, and activist, co-founded (with Allen Ginsberg) the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University and The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery.
Both notorious for their mesmerizing stage presences, Monk and Waldman’s paths have crossed many times; this is the first time they will appear on stage together. Danspace is thrilled to present this singular night of new work, solo sets, and some delightful surprises.
Meredith Monk by Julieta Cervantes, Anne Waldman by Nina Subin.
December 17-19, 2015
Thursday-Saturday at 8:00PM
$25 General / $20 Danspace members
DANSPACE PROJECT
131 East 10th Street
New York, NY 10003
Two fearless legends of NYC performance come together at Danspace Project for their first ever collaboration.
Meredith Monk, currently celebrating her 50th Season and one “one of contemporary music’s great innovators” (Classical Review), is a leader in interdisciplinary performance and an originator of extended vocal technique. As part of the evening Monk will be joined by members of her Vocal Ensemble to present selections from a new work-in-progress, Cellular Songs, a lyrical meditation based in part on her study of epigenetics.
“Anne Waldman’s work is the antithesis of stasis…She is a force of nature…a flame” (Quarterly Conversation). Waldman, a poet, author, playwright, and activist, co-founded (with Allen Ginsberg) the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University and The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery.
Both notorious for their mesmerizing stage presences, Monk and Waldman’s paths have crossed many times; this is the first time they will appear on stage together. Danspace is thrilled to present this singular night of new work, solo sets, and some delightful surprises.
Meredith Monk by Julieta Cervantes, Anne Waldman by Nina Subin.
International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong (IPNHK)
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
More information to come…
THE POETRY PROJECT PRESENTS: NATHANIEL DORSKY + ANNE WALDMAN
This fall New York City will be treated to a plethora of opportunities to see the work of Nathaniel Dorsky, who since 1963 has crafted a body of work comprising an astonishing number of exquisite and luminous experimental films. The subject of a career retrospective at this year’s New York Film Festival (September-October), Dorsky will return to NYC in November for this very special event, presented in conjunction with The Poetry Project.
Born in NYC in 1943, Dorsky is both an experimental filmmaker and a film editor, as well as the author of the seminal book, DEVOTIONAL CINEMA. As Richard Suchenski writes, Dorsky employs objects in his films as “decontextualized and sometimes unmoored from their surroundings, allowing connections to develop which resonate not only between shots but also across the films as a whole, encouraging more active forms of awareness.” Dorsky’s work asks the viewer to consider the film’s object to be irreducibly human. In DEVOTIONAL CINEMA, he writes, “In a flash, the uncanny presence of the poetic and vibrant world, ripe with mystery, stands before us” and, indeed, his films evince a form tantamount to a filmic poetry.
This event will showcase three films (two of them among his most recent), as well as featuring the filmmaker in conversation with poet Anne Waldman, for a discussion of his work’s relationship to poetry and language.
SARABANDE 2008, 15 min, 16mm, silent
PRELUDE 2015, 20 min, 16mm, silent
INTIMATIONS 2015, 18 min, 16mm, silent
Total running time: ca. 55 min (plus discussion)
The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church
131 E. 10th Street, New York, NY 10003