Conversation & Reading

Passwords: Cedar Sigo on Joanne Kyger

Tue, Nov 7, 2017

7:00 PM–8:30 PM

Poets House, 10 River Terrace, New York, New York 10282

Poet Cedar Sigo, editor of There You Are: Interviews, Journals, and Ephemera (Wave Books), a collection of 40 years of interviews, letters, poems, and journals from the remarkable poet Joanne Kyger, pays tribute to his former Naropa Institute mentor.

Joanne Kyger (1934–2017) was one of the major poets of the San Francisco Renaissance, with overlapping ties to prominent Beat, Black Mountain, and New York School poets. She published over 30 books of poetry and prose.

Please note this event takes place at Poets House, Kray Hall: 10 River Terrace, New York, NY 10282.

Admission: $10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets House members.

Co-sponsored by Poets House, Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, and Wave Books.