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The Reluctant Genius of Rudy Burckhardt hyperallergic.com/990734/the-r...
I’m hosting a celebration of Kenneth Koch at The New School on March 17 at 7 pm. Speakers will include Robert Polito, Ron Padgett, Maxine Groffsky, John Keene, Lucy Sante and Jim Jarmusch.
Manny Farber, who Susan Sontag called “the liveliest, smartest, most original film critic this country ever produced,” was born on this day, February 20, 1917. In this interview, poet and biographer Robert Polito discusses the “film investigations” of this singular cinematic interpreter.
Mail Call! Hollywood & God by
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Found following the Barbara Payton trail; an initial skim reveals many thrills, tangents, clues... #poetrysky #booksky
Book Review Farber on Film: Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber - by Edited by Robert Polito: A c.. http://bit.ly/3hldOg
Kenneth Koch at 100: A Celebration Monday, March 17, 7 pm The New School Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street The Kenneth Koch Literary Estate and the New School invite you to a celebration of the life and work of Kenneth Koch, poet, teacher, playwright, fiction writer, and collaborator with artists. Koch, who taught at The New School from 1958 to 1966, is a major poet of New York - alongside his friends John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara and James Schuyler - and a teacher who inspired generations of young writers.
Participants include film director Jim Jarmusch, critic Lucy Sante, artists Jim Dine and Alex Katz, legendary editor of Paris Review Maxine Groffsky, essayist Phillip Lopate, and poets Ron Padgett, Charles North, Tony Towle, John Keene, and Jeffrey Harrison. Poet and editor Jordan Davis will host the event, with a general introduction by Robert Polito of The New School. Koch collaborated with artists Alex Katz, Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, Red Grooms, Niki de Saint Phalle, Robert Rauschenberg and Larry Rivers, and with composers Virgil Thomson, Ned Rorem, Marcello Panni, and Scott Wheeler. The event is the first to celebrate Koch's work following what would have been his 100th birthday in February. During his lifetime, Koch published more than a dozen collections of poems including Thank You, The Pleasures of Peace, The Art of Love, Days and Nights, One Train, and New Addresses. Among his posthumous volumes are Collected Poems, On the Edge: Collected Long Poems, The Banquet: Collected Plays and The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Koch. He is also the author of two trailblazing books on teaching writing to children, Wishes, Lies and Dreams and Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?
Koch received the Library of Congress' Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry and the Bollingen Prize for Poetry. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, received Fulbright and Guggenheim fellowships, and was named Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. Koch's teaching career in New York, beginning with three years at Brooklyn College and nine years at the New School, concluded at Columbia, where he taught from 1959 until 2002. The event is free and open to the public.
Some personal news
For @literaryhub.bsky.social I wrote about the fear of speaking up against Trump and Musk's fascism, especially if you receive any kind of federal funding, and that it is our job as writers and editors to reclaim their banned words and ideas to fight back for those who can't.
Will Frazier & Bill Frazier: Fourteen Memories of David Lynch
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Esther Zuckerman on TC singing BD on SNL last night www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
Hervé Guibert’s great-aunts serve as muses and collaborators in a newly translated “photo novel” of disquieting love and beauty. 4columns.org/camhi-leslie...
Found this tintype - an early author’s photo?
Isn’t this the most amazing movie? Rewatched it again last night…
