Reading
Other Countries, Black Queer Expression, 2024 Winter Solstice Reading
Co-hosted by Matthew Rothenberg and Pierre Joris
For 70 years, poet, translator & anthologist Jerome Rothenberg (1931-2024) influenced literary discourse & poetics worldwide: coining the term "ethnopoetics" to embrace the poetic expression of oral cultures once marginalized by the West; exploring Jewish identity from Poland to America; and reimagining avant-garde poetic traditions from Romanticism to Dada & beyond.
This event will celebrate his lifetime of achievements and welcome The Serpent and the Fire, his final great anthology: an "omnipoetic" survey of poetries covering the Americas from Patagonia to Alaska, due October 2024 from University of California Press.
With readings and performances by John Zorn & Pierre Joris, Marty Ehrlich & Charles Bernstein, Matthew Rothenberg, Nicole Peyrafitte, Anne Waldman, Jeffrey Robinson, Michael Heller, Cecilia Vicuña, Anne Tardos, Bob Holman, Lee Anne Brown, Jake Marmer, Barbara Einzig, Steve Clay, Bruce Andrews, Mimi Gross, George Quasha, Ed Sanders, Janet Hamill, Ligorano/Reese, Ariel Resnikof, Amish Trivedi, Howard Norman, and Ellen Zweig.
We hope you can join us at 7:30pm for a pre-event reception.
This event will also be livestreamed for free on The Poetry Project's YouTube channel.
