Lee Ann Brown: Poetry Reading with Introduction by Charles Bernstein

The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation presents a reading by the poet Lee Ann Brown. She will be introduced by the poet Charles Bernstein. Please join us on Thursday, May 18. The reading will begin at 7:00 pm. Doors open at 6:30 pm.

Tickets are available online now for $7 or $10 at the door the day of the reading. Seating capacity is limited to 50.

Thursday, May 18, 2023

7:00 pm

Lee Ann Brown is author of over seven books of poetry including her most recent Oh You Nameless and Unnamed Ridges (1080press, 2022), a collaboration with Bernadette Mayer. She is a mother, partner, sister, daughter, reader, singer, player and winner of a New American Poetry Series Award for her first book Polyverse (Sun & Moon, 1989), selected by Charles Bernstein, a Fence Modern Poets Award, a Lord Nose Award, an Acker Award and the Judith E. Wilson Visiting Poetry Fellowship.

In 1989, Brown founded Tender Buttons Press, which is dedicated to publishing experimental poetry by women and other gender expansive beings. She currently lives in New York City, where she teaches at St. John’s University, and was recently the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow at the University of Cambridge. 

Charles Bernstein is an American poet, essayist, editor, and literary scholar. Bernstein recently retired from being the Donald T. Regan Professor, Emeritus, Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is one of the most prominent members of the Language poets. In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2019 he was awarded the Bollingen Prize from Yale University, the premiere American prize for lifetime achievement, given on the occasion of the publication of Near/Miss. Bernstein was David Gray Professor of Poetry and Poetics at SUNY-Buffalo from 1990 to 2003, where he co-founded the Poetics Program as well as the Electronic Poetry Center. A volume of Bernstein's selected poetry from the past thirty years, All the Whiskey in Heaven, was published in 2010 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. The Salt Companion to Charles Bernstein was published in 2012 by Salt Publishing, and most recently Topsy-Turvy, published in 2021 by the University of Chicago Press.

Bernstein is the editor of several collections, including: American Poetry after 1975 (Duke University Press / special issue of boundary, 2009), Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word (Oxford, 1999), The Politics of Poetic Form: Poetry and Public Policy (Roof, 1990), and the poetics magazine L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, whose first issue was published in 1978.

He has collaborated with painters Susan Bee, Mimi Gross, Amy Sillman, Francie Shaw, and Richard Tuttle on several artist's books and projects. In 2001, he curated Poetry Plastique, with Jay Sanders, a show of visual and sculptural poetry at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York. He has written libretti for Ben Yarmolinsky, Anne LeBarron, Dean Drummond, and Feryneyhough.