John Giorno: The Life and Death of a Poet

By Penny Arcade

DEC 19-JAN 20 | In Memoriam

On October 11th 2019 the pioneering poet, painter and artistic entrepreneur left his body at 222 Bowery, the Queen Anne Romanesque Revival style building built in 1880 as the first YMCA in New York. Giorno lived there since 1962, spread out over three lofts in this building, which was once honeycombed with the studios of countless artists including Mark Rothko and Fernand Léger

Loudermilk: Or, The Real Poet, Or, The Origin of the World By Lucy Ives

By Elizabeth Block

JUNE 2019 | Books

By employing a classical theatrical technique of dramatis personae, rather than “realistic” novel characters, perhaps Ives is able to move between so many registers that enable her unusual “mash-up” to excel as at once philosophical and planted in the mud.

Eternal Poet

By devorah major

SEPT 2019 | Books

Bob Kaufman is a poet; Bob Kaufman is a man steeped in a mythology sprinkled with a few facts.

The Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman

By Tony Leuzzi

NOV 2019 | Books

It has been thirty-three years since Bob Kaufman died semi-homeless of a pulmonary embolism. In America, the poet is often remembered for observing ten years of silence following the assassination of John F. Kennedy. In France, upon the publication of his first, most-famous book, Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness (1965), he was christened “The Black Rimbaud.”