Library Walk: Langston Hughes
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Brenda Shaughnessy, Coming to That, Dorothea Tanning, Mark Butkus photo, Mark Strand, Max Ernst, MOMA, New York City, poet, Richard Howard
Dorothea Tanning had her eureka moment as a young woman while attending an early surrealist exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in 1936. Following a life shared with fellow artist Max Ernst, Dorothea returned to New York City in the 1980s and embarked on a new chapter in her life — poet. Richard Howard, Brenda Shaughnessy and Mark Strand read from Dorothea’s latest, Coming to That.
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beat generation, CUNY, David Meltzer, Mark Butkus photo, Marty Ehrlich, New York, poet, Poetry Project at St. Mark's
David Meltzer, the last of the beat generation poets spoke from his latest book, When I Was A Poet at the CUNY Graduate Centre last night. Meltzer, who grew up in Brooklyn, came to prominence with his inclusion in Donald Allen’s The New American Poetry 1945-1960. An author of more than 50 books Meltzer will also be reading at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Monday September 26.