14/05/2019 18:30
14/05/2019 23:45
America/New_York
Alan Bernheimer and Jean Day
Event DetailsTuesday, May 14, 2019, 6:30 pmDia:Chelsea535 West 22nd Street, 5th FloorNew York City
Readings in Contemporary Poetry curator, Vincent Katz provided an introduction for the evening's reading.
Free for Dia members; $10 general admission; $6 admission for students and seniors Advance ticket purchases are recommended. Tickets are also available for purchase at the door, subject to availability.
Alan Bernheimer’s new collection of poetry, From Nature, is forthcoming from Cuneiform Press in 2019. Recent work has appeared at Across the Margin and in Delineator, Equalizer, and Hambone. Born and raised in New York City, he has lived in the Bay Area since the 1970s. He produces a portrait gallery of poets reading on flickr. His translation of Philippe Soupault’s memoir, Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism was published by City Lights in 2016.
BREAKFAST
Forgetting words The moment you Hear or read them
Is one way to avoid Plagiarizing but just Keep their flavor
And then try Expressing thatIn your own words
As if you could Own words You can't even
Keep thoughtsFrom slipping awayThey’re the slipperiest
Of all the slippery Things in lifeThe hotel elevator
That rises way Past the roof And slips across
A higher landscapeA different neighborhood Why not ask
If any of these Places will be Open for breakfast
Jean Day is an editor, a poet, and a union activist, whose Triumph of Life was just published in 2018 by Insurance Editions. Recent poems can also be seen in Across the Margin, Breather, Chicago Review, Delineator, Jongler (French), and Open House, as well as in her Daydream, published last year by Litmus Press. Earlier works include Early Bird (O’Clock, 2014) and Enthusiasm (Adventures in Poetry, 2006), among other books. Her work has also appeared in many anthologies, including the recent Resist Much/Obey Little (Spuyten Duyvil, 2017) and Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America & the UK (Reality Street, 2015). She lives in Berkeley, where she works as managing editor of Representations, an interdisciplinary humanities journal published by University of California Press.
FROM A DISTANT STAR
Sectarian quiet is a myth.
I knew it would be like this:
Milky sky of latewild turkeys in traffican earlier and earlier dinner.
It pays to be smart in any universe.
But we are down to the final call for volunteers
–from The Triumph of Life
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