Orion Magazine - Finding Community in Isolation
I STARTED READING Kate Zambreno’s incandescent new book The Light Room a month before its publication date during a camping trip with my ten year old at
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I STARTED READING Kate Zambreno’s incandescent new book The Light Room a month before its publication date during a camping trip with my ten year old at
The poet Bernadette Mayer and her artist sister Rosemary began to write to each other when the former moved with her family from New York to Lenox,
A marathon poetry reading celebrating the late Bernadette Mayer’s iconic book-length poem, "Midwinter Day," is slated Saturday, Jan. 7, at the Lenox Library.
Including: Jean-Patrick Manchette, Nancy Mitford, Svetlana Alexievich, Tayeb Salih, and Seth Price.
I had arrived at the all too probably named Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute past its ostensible heyday. Founded in 1974 by Waldman and her “spiritual husband” Allen Ginsberg, the school had the reputation of a mountain retreat for the Beat Poets, and their friends in the New York School, and their friends in the Black Mountain school, and their friends in the New Narrative school.