EventsCommon Ground#763
Joe Brainard: The Art of the Personal
Featuring John Yau and Tyhe Cooper
Thursday, March 9, 2023 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Poet and essayist John Yau joins Rail Production Editor Tyhe Cooper for a conversation and reading.
John Yau
John Yau has been publishing reviews and essays on art and literature since 1978. He is the Publisher of Black Square Editions and cofounded the online magazine Hyperallergic Weekend. Recent books by Yau include Joe Brainard: The Art of the Personal, published by Rizzoli in 2022, and the book of poems Genghis Chan on Drums published by Omnidawn in 2021. He is the 2017 recipient of the Jackson Prize in Poetry and a 2021 recipient of a Rabkin Prize for art criticism. He teaches at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and lives in New York.
Tyhe Cooper
Tyhe Cooper is a writer and editor. Their work has been published in the Brooklyn Rail, the Poetry Project Newsletter, Peach Mag, trilobite.bond, and elsewhere. Their chapbook, Book of Joke, was published by Slab Editions in 2024. They are the Production Editor at the Brooklyn Rail.
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