Wayne Koestenbaum shares a new Sprechstimme performance on Friday the 13th at The Poetry Project, featuring video, poetry, piano, soliloquy, and a musical Q&A. Drink service included.
This event is sold out. We encourage everyone interested in attending to join the waitlist through Eventbrite. We will do our best to offer standing room to everyone without a pre-purchased ticket. Ticket purchasers who arrive after 8:10 will have their seats released to individuals on the waitlist.
Wayne Koestenbaum—poet, critic, artist, performer—has published nineteen books, including Camp Marmalade, Notes on Glaze, The Pink Trance Notebooks, My 1980s & Other Essays, Hotel Theory, Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films, Andy Warhol, Humiliation, Jackie Under My Skin, and The Queen’s Throat (a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist). His next book, a collection of essays, Figure It Out, will be published by Soft Skull in May 2020. He has exhibited his paintings in solo shows at White Columns (New York), 356 Mission (L.A.), and the University of Kentucky Art Museum. His first piano/vocal record, Lounge Act, was released by Ugly Duckling Presse Records in 2017; he has given musical performances at The Kitchen, REDCAT, Centre Pompidou, The Walker Art Center, The Artist’s Institute, and the Renaissance Society. He is a Distinguished Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and French at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City.