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DAVID SHAPIRO & RON SILLIMAN

Segue Reading Series @ Bowery Poetry Club

Saturday, November 19: 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

308 Bowery, just north of Houston, NYC

$6 admission goes to support the readers

 

David Shapiro has written many books of poems & many volumes of translations, anthologies, the first book on John Ashbery, the first book on Jasper Johns' drawing, & the first book on Mondrian's flowers. He studied at Cambridge University & Columbia & has taught at Bard, Cooper Union, William Paterson, Columbia, & Princeton, among others. His most recent books have come out from Overlook: Lateness, To an Idea, House (Blown Apart), After a Lost Original. He is currently working on a selected poems.

In the photo above, Shapiro is seated in the office of the president of Columbia University during an antiwar student takeover of the building, Spring 1968.

The Segue Reading Series is made possible by the support of The Segue Foundation. For more information, please visit Segue Foundation, The Bowery Poetry Club or call (212) 614-0505. Curators for October & November are Nada Gordon & Gary Sullivan.