The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation is pleased to present a reading by the poet John Yau. They will be introduced by Anselm Berrigan. Please join us on Thursday, February 24. The reading will begin at 7:00 pm. Doors open at 6:30pm.
Thursday, February 24, 2022
7:00 pm
John Yau is poet, art critic, freelance curator, and publisher of Black Square Editions.
He was the recipient of the 2018 Jackson Poetry Prize. In 2021, Yau was awarded the Rabkin Prize for excellence in visual arts journalism. His most recent book of poems is Genghis Chan on Drums (Omnidawn, 2021). He wrote the first monograph on Thomas Nozkowski (Lund Humphries, 2017) and contributed an essay to Jane Freilicher: Paintings (Taplinger Publishing Company, 1986), edited by Robert Doty. He recently finished a monograph on Joe Brainard that will be published by Rizzoli in the fall of 2022.
Anselm Berrigan's books of poetry include Zero Star Hotel, Something for Everybody, Come In Alone, and most recently Pregrets, published by Black Square Editions in 2021. He's the poetry editor for The Brooklyn Rail, editor of What is Poetry? (Just kidding, I know you know): Interviews from The Poetry Project Newsletter (1983 - 2009), & co-editor of Get The Money: Selected Prose of Ted Berrigan, forthcoming in 2022 from City Lights Books.