April 12, 2014
I am delighted to be performing new work at the legendary Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church on April 24, with a lineup of marvelous hooligans. It’s all part of the William S. Burroughs 100th Birthday Festival and I am delighted to offer my own harangue.
WEDNESDAY, 23 APRIL 2014
8:30pm – 10:30pm
St. Mark’s Church
131 E. 10th Street, New York, NY 10003 | 212-674-0910
Special Start time of 8:30pm // Sanctuary
WSB100 is New York’s month-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of William Seward Burroughs, the iconic writer of Naked Lunch, Queer, Junky, and many other experimental works of great American literature. Join us for a reading featuring excerpts from throughout Burroughs’ oeuvre, including readings by Anne Waldman, Penny Arcade, Jack Womack, John Ventimiglia, Bob Holman, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Iron Dog, JG Thirlwell, Lydia Lunch, Elliott Sharp, Oliver Harris, Quintan Ana Wikswo, SamMickens, Adam Tobin, Shelley Hirsch, Simon Pettet, Steve Dalachinsky, James Ilgenfritz, DJ Ray Velasquez, and many others! For more info: www.wsb100.org
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When I came up to NYC on the train the first time as a ramshackle teenage kid from Texas, this was my first destination – I knew all about Patti Smith and the misfits and troublemakers who rumbled at this spot on the earth. I was hot on the scent. Sanctuary, indeed. I sat outside on the park bench before wandering down to Tompkins Square Park and deciding that this was the messy life I wanted. Holy, horrible, magnificent.
“Since its founding the late ’60s, the Poetry Project has been a major force in contemporary American literature. It’s not just an institution but an entire social sphere, where poets and their readers can mingle freely, listen to each other, and come away with new ideas. The current worldwide interest in American and especially New York poetry is a direct result of the presence of The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church.” – John Ashbery
The Poetry Project was founded in 1966 in NYC’s East Village and has been a crucial venue for new and experimental poetries for over four decades. It’s the site of the first listening to a Velvet Underground LP. Legendary performers have included Patti Smith, Kathy Acker, and a million more luminaries who have made my life worth living over the years. This is the best church in the world.
Ginsburg performing in the Sanctuary of St. Mark’s