Annual Hollywood Does Poetry Benefit for Bowery Arts & Science . Sunday, May 2, 2010 at the Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery (Bleecker-Houston). Hollywood stars read poems, and we all have fun in support of the nonprofit that brings you the programming at the Bowery Poetry Club, from Poetry Slams to American Sign Language performances, [...]
Please help fund the projection of New York’s poems onto buildings around town using a high-powered 10,000-lumen digital projector. By imagining the sides of buildings as blank pages for the dramatic presentation of the poet’s work we engage our community in a creative and innovative act of reading, we reinforce the value of those poems [...]
Attending the first ever Bowery Arts and Science, board retreat, held at the wonderful Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida were: (Right to left in the photo) Board Chair, Vincent Katz, Michael Warr, Chris Lamal, Treasurer Alison Meyers, James Siena, Artistic/Executive Director, Bob Holman, and Managing Director Gary [...]
Dear Poetry Family,
Great News! Kiki Smith and Anne Waldman have collaborated on a poetry carry-all bag — or maybe it’s an art work suitable for framing if you realize there are only 200 of them.
In either case, if you contribute $100 to Bowery Arts & Science you’ll receive the satisfaction of helping the Club in [...]
“breaking poems” by Suheir Hammad has been selected as a winner of the 30th annual Before Columbus Foundation/AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS for 2009. This book is published by Cypher Books one of the Bowery Arts and Science fiscal projects and we could not be more proud to be associated with this fine press and their poets.
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Bowery Poetry Club, Papa Susso, and Youth Poets from the Summer Institute of Social Justice and Applied Poetics at New Museum Block Party!
3pm Papa Susso Performs- Susso’s performance is sponsored by New York State Council on the Arts- Folk Arts
Alhaji Papa Susso (Suntu), master kora player, traditional musician, oral historian, virtuoso and director of [...]
Diana Manister’s stellar review of Janet Hamill’s new book of poetry titled Body of Water is now online at Big City Lit. Check it out here:
Big City Lit
Here is a choice quote from the review, “Fellini and Hamill are both artists on an Orphic journey to the mind’s crepuscular underworld, from which they bring back [...]
Bowery Arts and Science is thrilled to announce that Suheir Hammad’s book “breaking poems,” has been selected for 2009 Arab American Book Award for first prize in poetry. The book was published by Cypher Books one of our fiscal projects. Congratulations also to Cypher Books Co-Publisher’s Willie Perdomo and Lisa Simmons! Hammad is in good [...]
Bowery Books is proud to announce the release of BODY OF WATER
by Janet Hamill. On Sunday, Nov. 2nd at 6pm EST you can watch a live WebCast of the book release party.
Click here to watch the show!
Body of Water
Janet Hamill
Standing by a body of water. Moving or standing still
in the dark green depths my soul [...]