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M i d - M a n h a t t a n L i b r a r y Presents Art and Poetry A Poetry Reading and Slide Presentation with Stephen Spretnjak Johannes VanDerBeek Geoffrey Young Bill Zavatsky Monday April 27, 2009 6:30 p.m. on the 6th floor Mid-Manhattan Library The New York Public Library 40th Street and 5th Avenue New York, NY 10016 212-340-0871 Elevators access the 6th floor after 6p.m. All events are FREE and subject to last minute change or cancellation. In celebration of Poem in Your Pocket Day, the Art Collection is pleased to present an evening of poetry and art. Bill Zavatsky will read his poems followed by his translations of Andre Breton and Robert Desnos. Geoffrey Young will read his poems and selections from Francis Picabia’s poems. Johannes VanDerBeek will read poems by his father Stan VanDerBeek accompanied by images from this filmmaker’s work. Stephen Spretnjak will project his film works accompanied by readings of his poems followed by his translations of Valentine de Saint-Point's Poems of Love from The Metropolitan Opera House 1917. Stephen Spretnjak is an artist who has been collecting the poems of artists/poets since 1989, and has created Poetic Investigations an archive of works by 400 people with about 80 still in research mode. His interest is in experiencing those spontaneous moments as the tangibility of the world becomes a flickering light breathed into the material mass of objects. During these circumstantial moments, the experience is magnified to the point of hallucination. Johannes VanDerBeek and his sister Sara are artists who operate Guild & Greyshkul Gallery in SOHO. Johannes will read poems by his father Stan VanDerBeek (1917-1984) accompanied by images of this experimental filmmaker (who has used up to eight projectors to cast his moving images on overlapping screens). Johannes’ work is represented by Zach Feuer Gallery (LFL) in Chelsea. Geoffrey Young has taught at Columbia University, SF State University, SUNY Albany, UC Berkley, Vassar College, and Yale University. His small press, The Figures (1975-2005), published more than 125 books of poetry, fiction, and art writing. Several of his own poetry books including Lights Out and Fickle Sonnets have been illustrated by artists Donald Baechler, Carroll Dunham and James Siena. He has curated over 60 exhibitions in the past seventeen years. Bill Zavatsky teaches at the Trinity School in Manhattan and his latest collection of poems, Where X Marks the Spot, was published in 2006. He is the recipient of several awards including a 2008-2009 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry and the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for his translations of Earthlight: Poems by Andre Breton. He has also published translations of Robert Desnos’ poems. __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask]