Please join us to mark the closing of Real as Paint on Canvas: James Schuyler and a Few of his Painter Friends with a reading curated by Ann Stephenson. 

Thursday, July 9th 6:30pm
 

A celebration of James Schuyler’s poetry with
ELAINE EQUI 
BEN ESTES
NATHAN KERNAN
WAYNE KOESTENBAUM 
& a recording by PETER GIZZI

This exhibition was originally organized in conjunction with the publication of Nathan Kernan’s A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler.

Milton Resnick Pat Passlof Foundation
87 Eldridge St
New York, NY 10002

Elaine Equi’s latest book is Out of the Blank from Coffee House Press. Her other books include Voice-Over, which won the San Francisco State Poetry Award; Ripple Effect: New & Selected Poems, which was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Award and on the short list for the Griffin Poetry Prize; and The Intangibles. Widely published, her work has appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies including Poetry, The New Yorker, Brooklyn Rail, New American Writing, The Paris Review, The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry, and several editions of Best American Poetry. She has taught in many creative writing programs including those at New York University, City College of New York, and The New School.

Ben Estes is the author of the poetry collections ABC Moonlight; Illustrated Games of Patience; and Simple Machines, which will be published in 2027. Ben has also edited Together & Alone: The Photographs of Karlheinz Weinberger; The Sphinx and the Milky Way: Selections from the Journals of Charles Burchfield; and the poetry anthology On The Mesa: An Anthology of Bolinas Writing. With Alan Felsenthal, he edited A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind, the Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton. He is currently working on assembling an anthology of John Cage's writings through Henry David Thoreau and a collection of James Schuyler's photographs, both will also to be published in 2027. In 2024, Dia commissioned Ben to write Clear Air, a long poem for 4 readers, to be performed at Dia:Beacon. Ben has shown his paintings at Paula Cooper Gallery, Headstone Gallery, Kobo Chika, and Bad Water, among others.

Peter Gizzi is the author of several collections of poetry, most recently Fierce Elegy, Now It’s Dark, Archeophonics, and In Defense of Nothing, all from Wesleyan. He lives in Holyoke, MA.

Nathan Kernan is a writer who lives in New York and in Salisbury CT. He edited The Diary of James Schuyler which was published by Black Sparrow Press in 1997, and has published numerous art reviews, catalogue essays and monographs, as well as poetry. Poems, his collaboration with painter Joan Mitchell, was published by Tyler Graphics in 1992. A chapbook, Lunch, was published by Pressed Wafer in 2007. A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler, published in 2025 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, is his first biography. Kernan is also a co-founder and board president of the Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation, an exhibition space for painting in lower Manhattan.

Wayne Koestenbaum is a Distinguished Professor of English, French, and comparative literature at the CUNY Graduate Center. His many books span poetry, essays, biography, and fiction. His first novel in more than twenty years, My Lover, the Rabbi, was recently published by FSG Originals. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, and a Whiting Award, he has also been a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. A widely shown painter, he released his first piano/vocal album, Lounge Act, in 2017. He lives in New York.