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Exhibits on display in the next month

Exhibits on display in the next month

Larry Eigner’s work has been foundational for contemporary American poetry. What was missing was the biography, which now, thanks to the storied Modern and Contemporary Poetics series of the University of Alabama Press, edited by Charles Bernstein and Hank Lazer, we have. Jennifer Bartlett’s Sustaining Air: The Life of Larry Eigner, is a terrific book. I, as they say, couldn’t put it down, finishing it in a day, and wishing for more.

This week, poet Joseph Massey joins High Noon. Massey has written movingly about his experience being canceled at the height of #MeToo