Michael Seth Stewart, Graduate Center alum and editor of Stars Seen in Person: Selected Journals John Wieners (City Lights Publishers, 2015), gives a talk detailing his love affair with the letters and journals of poet John Wieners, and the primacy of love in Wieners’ poetry and prosody. He will be joined by painter, writer, and Black Mountain College alum Basil King, who will perform a beautiful poem about his friend John Wieners.
Cosponsored by the PhD Program in English at The Graduate Center, CUNY.
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