New York’s month-long celebration of the 100th Anniversary William S Burrough’s Birthday

The Poetry Project: Sanctuary at St Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery
10th St & 2nd Ave, New York, NY
www.wsb100.org

Poets House presents A Painter and His Poets: The Art of George Schneeman.

On view April 22 through September 20, this exhibition is the first major retrospective of the painter’s collaborative works with prominent poets of the second-generation New York School, among them Ted Berrigan, Anne Waldman, Larry Fagin, Maureen Owen, and Michael Brownstein. A full-color brochure will accompany the exhibition, featuring new essays by Bill Berkson and Peter Schjeldahl as well as an excerpt from Alice Notley’s 1978 interview with the artist.

Curated by Bill Berkson and Ron Padgett, two of Schneeman’s close friends and collaborators, the exhibition gathers life-size portraits of poets on canvas, some of them nudes; collaborations using magazine clippings, handwritten poems, and a wide range of art materials; fresco portraits of Allen Ginsberg, Waldman, John Godfrey, and others; book covers; and other treasures from the artist’s estate.

Exhibition Events:

Tuesday, April 22:
• 6:00-8:00 p.m.: Opening Reception

Saturday, April 26:
• 3:00-4:30 p.m.: Poetry reading with Michael Brownstein, Larry Fagin, Alice Notley, Maureen Owen, Harris Schiff, Anne Waldman, and Lewis Warsh, introduced by Bill Berkson.
• 5:00-6:00 p.m.: Panel discussion with Bill Berkson, Larry Fagin, Alice Notley, Maureen Owen, Peter Schjeldahl, and Anne Waldman, moderated by Ron Padgett.

Publication:
A Painter and His Poets: The Art of George Schneeman
• Exhibition catalogue: 16 pages, full color
• Edited by Ron Padgett and Bill Berkson
• New texts by Bill Berkson and Peter Schjeldahl, with an excerpt from an interview with the artist by Alice Notley

Anne Waldman and Pamela Lawton
“Sweet-Voiced (Mutilated) Papyrus” — reading and discussion of their collaboration

Metropolitan Museum
Gallery 534 (Vélez Blanco Patio)
5th Ave & 82nd St
New York, NY

Limited to 45 people; tickets given out 15 min. prior

Anne Waldman reads with Thurston Moore on guitar in connection with the 100th anniversary birthday of William S. Burroughs.

8 pm and 10 pm

The Stone
Corner of Avenue C and 2nd
New York, NY

Women of Naropa Reading
Friday, April 11 at 7:30 p.m.
Student Center, Wulsin Hall (basement), Arapahoe Campus, 2130 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, CO

Enjoy readings by Anne Waldman, Andrea Rexilius, J’Lyn Chapman, Ariella Ruth, Jade Lascelles, Eleanore Tisch, Jade Cruz Quinn and Elizabeth Kolenda, Jennifer Van Alstyne, Hannah Kezema, and Jaclyn Hawkins, to benefit Bombay Gin and a local women’s charity.

Tickets $8; discount $5 tickets for Naropa students, staff, and faculty, with Naropa ID.
For more information or to inquire about accessibility and disability accommodations, please contact Ariella Ruth at 303-546-3581, or at agoldberg@naropa.edu.

McNally Jackson and City Lights Present:
“A Centennial Celebration of Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons”
with Anne Waldman, Charles Bernstein, Lisa Jarnot, and Seth Perlow

McNally Jackson Books
52 Prince St
New York, NY

City Lights proudly announces the publication of Tender Buttons: The Corrected Centennial Edition, edited by Seth Perlow.

2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the original publication of Gertrude Stein’s groundbreaking modernist classic, Tender Buttons. This centennial edition incorporates Stein’s own handwritten corrections, resulting in the first and only version of the book that truly reflects its author’s intentions.

Cosponsored by The Gertrude Stein Society at Hunter College.

Amiri Baraka Memorial Event

Anne Waldman, Julie Patton, Tracie Morris, David Henderson, Ammiel Alcalay, and other friends

St Marks Church In-the-Bowery
10th St & 2nd Ave
New York, NY

Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness in Washington, DC, March 27-30, 2014. Among the most significant and artistically vibrant writing and performing today, they also exhibit exemplary public citizenship as activists, teachers, and supporters of marginalized voices.

The poets to be featured are: Sheila Black, Franny Choi, Eduardo C. Corral, Gayle Danley, Natalie Diaz, Joy Harjo, Maria Melendez Kelson, Yusef Komunyakaa, Dunya Mikhail, Shailja Patel, Wang Ping, Claudia Rankine, Tim Seibles, Myra Sklarew, Danez Smith, and Anne Waldman. They represent the great diversity of poets writing and performing in the United States today: poets writing in all poetic styles, men and women of many races, ethnicities, sexual orientations, ages, and social classes.

“We are thrilled to bring these exemplary poets from all over the country to DC’s stages,” says Executive Director Sarah Browning. “Poetry can tell hard truths, can challenge and succor us. These poets are visionaries, helping imagine a future based on principles of justice, one that honors the transformative power of the imagination.”

Split This Rock 2014 Featured Poets full biographies and photographs can be found at www.SplitThisRock.org.

The festival features readings, workshops, panel discussions, youth programming, activism—opportunities to speak out for justice, build connection and community, and celebrate the many ways poetry can act as an agent for social change. Festival registration will open in the fall.

Anne Waldman and Pat Steir

“CRY STALL GAZE” — reading and discussion of their collaboration

Cheim Read Gallery
547 West 25th St
New York, NY

Anne Waldman, Mariela Dreyfus & Roger Santiváñez
Members-only reception and book-signing to follow.

“Peru’s Underground/American Avant-Garde: Kloaka and the Beat Generation”

Americas Society
680 Park Ave
New York, NY

Admission: FREE for Americas Society Members; $10.00 for non-members.

This opening event for the Americas Society’s Spring 2014 Literature season will feature Peruvian poets Mariela Dreyfus and Roger Santiváñez and U.S. poet Anne Waldman—associated with the Beat writers, and who worked closely with Allen Ginsberg—who will read from their latest books. The reading will underscore the counterpoint of two poetry movements—the American Beat Generation of the 1950s and the Peruvian Kloaka movement of the 1980s—in order to understand the influence of both on their respective cultures and to create a poetic synergy for the present and beyond. Scheduled for the Spring Solstice, the program will celebrate poetic culture as an expression of non-violence and, in particular, the respective new titles by all three poets—Dreyfus’s Pez/Fish (Nirala), Santiváñez’s Roberts Pool Crepúsculos (Hipocampo), and Waldman’s Gossamurmur (Penguin). Translators E.M. O’Connor and Elsa Costa will also participate. A book-signing will follow the reading, in collaboration with Posman Books. In English with bilingual readings.

We thank the following institutions for helping publicize this event: Columbia University; the Hispanic New York Project; Hunter College, CUNY; InterAmericas®; The International Literary Quarterly; McNally Jackson Books; New York University; St. Marks Poetry Project; Words without Borders; and the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y.

Event Information: Jose Negroni | jnegroni@as-coa.org | 1-212-277-8353
Press Inquiries: Adriana La Rotta | alarotta@as-coa.org | 1-212-277-8384