Master Poets on Monday Night | Glen Park

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Bird and Beckett Books & Music in Glen Park hosts two master poets, Bill Berkson (editor of Art in America) and Duncan McNaughton (author, “Kicking the Feature”) on Monday night August 29th at 7pm.

Monday, August 29th – 7:00 pm
Bill Berkson & Duncan McNaughton
– two master poets –

BILL BERKSON is a widely published poet, art critic, editor, and curator who was professor of Liberal Arts at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1984 to 2008. He is a corresponding editor for Art in America, a contributing editor for artcritical.com, and the author of at least eighteen books and pamphlets, including Portrait and Dream: New & Selected Poems, The Sweet Singer of Modernism & Other Art Writings, Sudden Address: Selected Lectures, For The Ordinary Artist: Short Reviews, Interviews, Occasional Pieces & More, and an epistolary collaboration with Bernadette Mayer entitled What’s Your Idea of a Good Time?.

DUNCAN MCNAUGHTON, poet, critic, teacher and editor, received a degree in Classics from NYU before pursuing graduate work in Oriental Studies at Princeton and completing a Ph.D. in English Literature and Poetics at SUNY. Buffalo. He was founder, editor, and publisher for FATHAR and MOTHER, two seminal little magazines, and also established the Poetics Program at the New College of California, directing the Program from its opening in 1965 until 1990. He is the author of at least twelve books of poetry, including A Passage of Saint Devil (1976), Sumeriana (1977), Valparaiso (1995), Kicking the Feather (1996), and Capricci (2003).

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