thomas devaney

     VINCENT KATZ       lunch poems pop-up reading       Woodside Cottage, Haverford College      12 to 12:30 pm - Friday 3/2

INCONVERSATION BILL BERKSON with Thomas Devaney

Devaney/Rail: Earlier today you said “something something, baby” and were kind of charting a geography of a tone: connecting a sound in Virgil Thomson’s voice, which you said Frank O’Hara was picking up on. Did you know Thomson through O’Hara?

Berkson: Yes, but also through my mother (Eleanor Lambert). It was very interesting to know him. He had such an interesting speech pattern—this kind of Kansas. It was Kansas, but it was your grandmother. Very high pitched. ... And he liked to call everybody baby. And that’s probably what Frank is hearing when he says ”the Brise Marine wasn’t written in Sanskrit, baby.” He’s probably hearing Virgil.

Video reading here at Don Yorty’s Explorations--

Commenting, Yorty says: “and finally out of the careening and crashing, the poet summons all of his strength, his talent and skill to write and join the light in the limbs at last, which is almost silent but not quite.”

Nat Hentoff photographed by Jill Krementz on April 24, 1974 (NYC). An article I wrote on Nat Hentoff published in Hyperallergic: "Enduring Voices: The Legacy of Nat Hentoff"

“Hentoff's art was to highlight the art of others and he was so successful that he is in danger of being left out of the stories he stepped aside to make room for.”

Pace University | Monday, November 7, 2016 | Poets@Pace presents       Thomas Devaney and David Trinidad.

ICA Gather welcomes: A little Monk. A little Bessie. A little Langston. Legendary troubadour, poet, and blues saxman Dick Lourie joins Philly Poet Laureate Yolanda Wisher and her band The Afroeaters for an intergenerational performance of blues and verse. They are joined by poets Natalie Diaz and Christian Campbell who will also collaborate in a reading that engages the themes of creative freedom and resistance that are part of the exhibition "The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now" on view at ICA starting Sept. 14th. The readings on the terrace will be preceded by short "pop-up" readings throughout the gallery, near the works of art that inspired the poets commissioned to write ekphrastic poems for the event. This set features new work by Marie Alarcon, Cynthia Dewi Oka, Alina Pleskova, Lucia Gbaya-Kanga, Cindy Arrieu-King, Faye Chevalier, Stan Mir, Thomas Devaney, Kirwyn Sutherland, Warren Longmire, Sara Grossman, Lauren Yates and Nico Amador.

Supplement is a new annual anthology of poetry, poetics, visual art and innovative writing, published by the Creative Writing Program and Kelly Writers House at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing (University of Pennsylvania). A constituent of Jacket2, PennSound, and the various reading series at KWH, Supplement v.1 documents the diverse contemporary poetry and poetics scenes in and around Philadelphia from writers who have performed in the area in 2015-16.

The inaugural volume includes work from Rachel Blau Duplessis, John Yau, Yolanda Wisher, Bill Berkson, Jena Osman, Frank Sherlock, Tracie Morris, CA Conrad, Rachel Zolf, Charles Bernstein, Anna Maria Hong, Rae Armantrout, Joseph Massey, Laynie Brown, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Susan Bee, Rachel Levitsky, Paolo Javier, Alex Tarampi, Francie Shaw, Tsitsi Jaji, Bob Perelman, Juliana Spahr, Julia Bloch, Thomas Devaney, Patricia Spears Jones, Michael Davidson, Rodrigo Toscano, Kristen Gallagher, erica kaufman, William J. Harris, Anne Tardos, Jerome Rothenberg, Jennifer Scappettone and Pierre Joris

The Poetry Project memorial reading to remember and honor the life of poet and art critic, Bill Berkson. With Andrew Arnot, Moses Berkson, Alan Bernheimer, Anselm Berrigan, Thomas Devaney, Jarrett Earnest, Larry Fagin, Alex Katz, Vincent Katz, David McKee, Ron Padgett, Robert Storr, Kate Sutton, Anne Waldman, and Lewis Warsh.

“POEM WRITTEN IN AN AIRPORT” from Runaway Goat Cart (Hanging Loose Press, 2015). Photo from reading at Jim Cory’s in PHL May 2016. Photo: Alina Pleskova.

Poem Written in an Airport