Taylor Mead

Taylor Mead can be seen at the Bowery Poetry Club every Friday night, thanks to the generous financial support of the Andy Warhol Foundation.

Taylor won roughly equal renown as a poet and an actor. Mead's most recent book, A Simple Country Girl, his first in twenty years demonstrates what we'd been missing in the interim. "If he had decided to live in Paris instead of New York, they'd have built several monuments to Taylor Mead a long time ago" - Gary Indiana. The poet remains in top form at age 80. Taylor's movie credits include innumerable underground classics, from Andy Warhol's Lonesome Cowboys (1968) to the first film of the Beat generation, The Flower Thief (1960) On stage he created the title role in Frank O'Hara's The General Returns from One Place to Another (1963) and Michael McClure's Spider Rabbit. (1971). More recently he was featured in Jim Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), and this year stars in the documentary Excavating Taylor Mead.