A Memorial Reading for Ted Greenwald

Ted Greenwald (1942-2016) was born in Brooklyn, raised in Queens, and lived in New York City his entire life. He wrote daily for over 50 years and published more than 30 books. A central figure in the second-generation of the New York school and a major influence on language writing, as a poet he is sui generis, they broke the mold. His work combines rigorous formal invention, a keen ear for plain talk, and a finger on the pulse of the life of the times. Three books of work from the 1970s are newly published, The Age of Reasons (Wesleyan), Common Sense (Wesleyan), and Own Church (Spuyten Duyvil). Other recent books includeComma Fork / Moving Parts and In Your Dreams(BlazeVOX), as well as the memoir of his childhood and youth, Clearview/LIE (United Artists).

“No one is writing poems that blend both the vernacular and the abstract with such virtuosity, no one is writing poems with structure and syntax that serves to recover authenticity under the conditions of late capitalism, and no one is writing poems that sound better.”
Stacy Szymaszek

Readers Include:

Alan Bernheimer
Nathaniel Dorsky
Norman Fischer
Corinne Fitzpatrick
Lyn Hejinian
Jerome Hiler
Laura Moriarty
Julien Poirier
Renny Pritikin
Tom Raworth (from England)
Kit Robinson