Readings in Contemporary Poetry

Readings in Contemporary Poetry

Taylor Mead and John Giorno
October 14, 2010, 6:30pm

Eileen Myles and Stacy Szymaszek
November 18, 2010, 6:30pm

Charles Bernstein and Tim Peterson (Trace)
December 16, 2010, 6:30pm

In 2010−11, Dia will relaunch its celebrated Readings in Contemporary Poetry program (1987−2003) with a series of events co-curated by poet and author Vincent Katz and Dia curator Yasmil Raymond. Each evening, a pair of poets from different generations will present original works or works in process.

For more information on upcoming events, click here.

Taylor Mead and John Giorno
October 14, 2010, 6:30pm

Taylor Mead began writing and performing poetry in the early 1950s. He starred in numerous Andy Warhol films, including Taylor Mead’s Ass (1964), and was the subject of William A. Kirkley’s documentary Excavating Taylor Mead (2005). Mead performs weekly at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City.

John Giorno was the subject of Andy Warhol’s first film, Sleep (1963), and is the author of several books including You Got to Burn to Shine (1993). He has produced various audio recordings for Giorno Poetry Systems, founded the AIDS Treatment Project, and is an important force in the development of Tibetan Buddhism in the West.

Eileen Myles and Stacy Szymaszek
November 18, 2010, 6:30pm

Eileen Myles has most recently published Inferno (a poet’s novel) (OR Books, 2010) and a collection of poems Sorry, Tree (Wave Books, 2007). For her collection of essays, The Importance of Being Iceland (Semiotext(e), 2009), she received a Warhol/Creative Capital grant, and in 2010 the Poetry Society of America awarded Myles the Shelley Prize.

Stacy Szymaszek is the author of Hyperglossia (Litmus Press, 2009), and Emptied of All Ships (Litmus Press, 2005), as well as numerous chapbooks including from Hart Island (Albion Books, 2009). From 1999−2005, she worked at Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee. She is currently Artistic Director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church.

Charles Bernstein and Tim Peterson (Trace)
December 16, 2010, 6:30pm

Charles Bernstein is the author of several books, including All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010), and Girly Man (University of Chicago Press, 2006). In spring 2011 Bernstein will publish The Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays & Inventions (University of Chicago Press, 2011).

Tim Peterson (Trace) is the author of Since I Moved In (Chax Press, 2007), and the forthcoming chapbook, VIOLET SPEECH (2nd Avenue Poetry). Peterson edits EOAGH: A Journal of the Arts and curates the talk series Quips & Cranks (with Vincent Katz) at The School of Visual Arts, the Zinc Bar poetry series, and the TENDENCIES: Poetics & Practice talk series at CUNY Graduate Center.

Funding
This program is supported in part by Barbara and Charles Wright and an anonymous donor.

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