Bernadette Mayer
March 26–27, 2018
- Reading: Streaming video, MP3 audio
- Discussion: Streaming video, MP3 audio
Bio
Bernadette Mayer is an
experimental poet, editor, and teacher associated with the New York
School writers. For decades her work has brought formal experimentalism
into the realm of the domestic by exploring, expanding and exploding
what "the domestic" even is. Mayer has also created much-adopted syllabi
and exercises to support the teaching of reading and writing, the best
known of these being her journal ideas and writing experiments. She
regularly taught workshops at St. Mark's Poetry Project in New York City
throughout the 70s, and from 1980 - 1984 served as the director. Mayer
was also a great publisher and editor of her contemporaries, through
0 to 9 co-edited with Vito Acconci, and United Artists Books and the
associated magazine from 1977 - 1983. She has published over 20 books of
poetry including Midwinter Day,
Sonnets, and most recently, Eating the
Colors of a Lineup of Words, a collection of her early books. In 2015
Mayer was named a Guggenheim Fellow.