On Monday, September 28 from 7 to 9 PM EST, the renowned NYC Lower East Side literary gathering space KGB Bar will host my dear compatriot Paolo Javier and me in a two-person poetry reading and film screening.
Lynne Sachs reads from July 30th’s entry of Bernadette Mayer’s book “Memory”.
Chapter 16 – A Community of Tennessee Writers, Readers & Passersby features Lynne Sachs’ poem “2010” from “Year by Year”.
When filmmaker Lynne Sachs turned fifty, she dedicated herself to writing a poem for every year of her life, so far. Each of the fifty poems investigates the relationship between a singular event in Sachs’ life and the swirl of events beyond her domestic universe.
Lynne Sachs talks process and inspiration with Rob McLennan.
New York poets Valery Oisteanu and Lynne Sachs make distillations, sometimes with words, sometimes with images.
To celebrate the press’s 30th birthday and the publication of the new Tender Omnibus collection, Greenlight hosts a night of reading and conversation featuring three Tender Buttons poets.
“These poems are innovative but never intimidating or deliberately opaque. Instead, they invite us in, encouraging us to play along. They give us a structure to enter into our own retrospective lives, our own distillations of time, our own superimpositions of the newsworthy world onto our most intimate moments.” – Sharon Harrigan
Join us at Burke’s Books for a reading and book signing with Lynne Sachs for her book of poetry, “Year by Year”
Intimate and imagistic, the poems unfold a series of miniature stories with sensuous rhythms, telling visual detail, and gentle humor.
