The Poetry Project NYC Week of March 21, 2011

WEDNESDAY MARCH 23 / 6:30PM Talk & 8PM Reading
Artistic Directors of The Poetry Project
Paul Blackburn gave a reading on September 22, 1966, and so began the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church-In-the-Bowery. The Project has been a major force in contemporary poetry for 45 years, and run by poets for all of those years. Please join us as we celebrate this aspect of our history by hearing from the poets who filled the role of Artistic Director with a short panel followed by a reading. With Anne Waldman, Ron Padgett, Bernadette Mayer, Eileen Myles, Ed Friedman, and Anselm Berrigan. We will also listen to recordings from founder Paul Blackburn and first Director Joel Oppenheimer. Talk moderated by MacGregor Card. Reading hosted by Stacy Szymaszek.

FRIDAY MARCH 25 / 10PM
Jeremy Hoevenaar & Kristen Kosmas
Jeremy Hoevenaar was born in New Jersey, lived in New York City for nine years, and now lives and attempts to photosynthesize poems in Baltimore.  Some work can be found in the Brooklyn Rail, Tantalum Journal, The Recluse, Shifter Magazine, andForklift, Ohio.  He believes applause should be withheld until the end.

Kristen Kosmas is an American writer and performer. Her plays and solo performances have been presented in Seattle, Austin, Boston, Chicago, and in New York City at numerous venues including the Prelude festival, Performance Space 122, Dixon Place, Little Theater, Barbès, the Ontological/Hysteric Downstairs Series, Experiments and Disorders, Supermachine, CROWD, and Yardmeter Editions. She has had new works commissioned by Performance Space 122, The Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf, Seattle University’s SITE Specific, Dixon Place, and the New City Theater in Seattle. Her play Hello Failure was recently published by Ugly Duckling Presse, and her multi-voice performance text This From Cloudland appears in the latest issue of “PLAY A Journal of Plays.”

The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church

131 E. 10th St. New York NY 10003