Matt Longabucco’s work has recently appeared in Aufgabe, The Brooklyn Rail, Parkett and The Death and Life of American Cities. He is the Friday Night Series coordinator at the Poetry Project.
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December 2013
Alice Notley - Unitarian Center - 12.1.12
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Alice Notley was born in Arizona and grew up in Needles, California. After earning her BA from Barnard College and MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Notley traveled extensively around the US and abroad. In 1972 she married the poet Ted Berrigan and had two sons with him, the poets Anselm and Edmund Berrigan. Active in the New York poetry scene of the 1960s and ‘70s, Notley is often identified with the so-called Second Generation New York School poets, though her work resists any period classification. In an interview with the Kenyon Review, Notley noted: “I think I try with my poems to create a beginning space. I always seem to be erasing and starting over, rather than picking up where I left off, even if I wind up taking up the same themes. This is probably one reason that I change form and style so much, out of a desire to find a new beginning, which is always the true beginning.”
Notley is the author of over twenty five books of poetry. Continue reading at the Poetry Foundation.