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The House That Jack Built: A Jack Spicer Symposium

May 15, 2009 | 6:30 pm

6:30pm: A panel with Dodie Bellamy, Samuel Delaney, Peter Gizzi, Kevin Killian & Jennifer Moxley

8:00pm: A reading with Dodie Bellamy, Julian T. Brolaski, CA Conrad, Samuel Delaney, Peter Gizzi, Kevin Killian, Douglas A. Martin, Rod Smith, Lewis Warsh & Karen Weiser

In honor of seminal San Francisco Renaissance poet, anarchist and gay activist Jack Spicer (1925-1965) this symposium also marks the publication of My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer, edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian. The long awaited collection includes unpublished and hard-to-find works by Spicer.

Admission $8, $7 for students and seniors, $5 for Poetry Project members, free to Poets House members and sustaining Poetry Project members Location The Poetry Project St. Mark’s Church 131 East 10th Street (bet. 2nd and 3rd Avenues) Sponsored By Poets House, Cosponsored by The Poetry Project.

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Date:
May 15, 2009
Time:
6:30 pm