F rom April 28 to May 16, Diane Rothenberg and I will again be in New York City, for another round of activities at this year’s People’s Poetry Gathering (May 5-7) and for a chance to visit with old & new friends and to spend time in old & new neighborhoods of our native city. Among the several events at People’s Poetry are the following:
Saturday, May 6, 1:00 - 2:15, reading with Cecilia Vicuña, Anselm Berrigan, & others: “The New York Poem,” at City University of New York Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, Breakout Room 2.
Saturday, May 6, 3:30-4:45, performing & talking on “Distant Languages, Real and Imagined,” with Pierre Joris, at City University of New York, Breakout Room 5.
Sunday, May 7, 2:00-3:30, Panel on “Poetry Across Languages,” at Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery at Bleecker.
Also, on Saturday, May 6, 7:00 p.m., reading in collaboration with collages by Nancy Tobin, Spoken Word and Visual Arts Series, Center for Performing Arts, DeBaun Auditorium, Edwin A. Stevens Hall, 5th & Hudson Sts., Hoboken, N.J.
As before we expect to be picking up e-mail at the present address – http://mx.f300.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=jrothenberg@cox.net – but also at Diane Rothenberg’s e-mail address – http://mx.f300.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=jdrothenberg@aol.com – & at our hotmail address: http://mx.f300.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=jeromerothenberg@hotmail.com.
Our address and numbers in New York are:
Emily Harvey Gallery
537 Broadway
New York, NY 10012
Tel. (212) 925-7651
Cell: (760) 415-9889
Also, for those of you in or near New York, if you’re around and want to get together during that time, please get back to us by email now or by phone following our arrival. We’ll also try to be in touch from our end.
Looking forward & warm best wishes,
Jerry & Diane Rothenberg