Podcast appearances and mentions of Alice Notley

The third in our series of conversations about the late Alice Notley. Lindsay Turner returns to the podcast to discuss a selection from Waltzing Matilda, "Dec. 12, 1980." A poet, critic, and translator, Lindsay Turner is the author of the poetry collections The Upstate (University of Chicago Press, 2023) and Songs & Ballads (Prelude Books, 2018). Her translations from the French include books by Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Anne Dufourmantelle, Stéphane Bouquet, Frédéric Neyrat, Richard Rechtman, Ryoko Sekiguchi, and others. Her translation of Bouquet's The Next Loves was longlisted for the National Translation Awards, shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award, and named a New York Times top 10 poetry collection of 2019, and she has twice received French Voices Grants for her translation work. Originally from northeast Tennessee, she lives in Cleveland, Ohio, where she is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Case Western Reserve University. Take a look at Lindsay's Substack, "stay you are so fair."You can listen to Notley reading from Waltzing Matilda on the PennSound archive of her recordings.Please follow the podcast if you like what you hear, and leave a rating and review. Share an episode with a friend! (Post it to your social media feeds?) You can also subscribe to my Substack, which I haven't used in a while, but may again. I'm also on Bluesky, now and then.

The second in a series of conversations about the poet Alice Notley, who passed away on May 19, 2025. The poet and critic Joyelle McSweeney joins the podcast to talk about selections from Notley's epic The Descent of Alette. (A brief note on audio quality: we listen to three recordings of Notley reading from her book during this episode. The volume on playback of those recordings seems somewhat low to me—sorry!—but hopefully listeners will be able to adjust the volume on their devices so as to hear Notley well enough.)Guggenheim Fellow Joyelle McSweeney is the author of ten books of poetry, drama and prose, a well-known critic, and a vital publisher of international literature in translation. McSweeney's latest book, Death Styles, appeared from Nightboat Books in Spring 2024; her previous title, Toxicon and Arachne (2020), was called "frightening and brilliant" by Dan Chiasson in the New Yorker and earned her the Shelley Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America. Her 2014 essay collection, The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults, is widely regarded as a visionary work of eco-criticism. Her debut poetry volume, The Red Bird, inaugurated the Fence Modern Poets Series in 2001. With Johannes Göransson, she co-edits the international press Action Books, which has built readerships for a diverse array of US and international authors from Griffin Prize winners Kim Hyesoon and Don Mee Choi to Daniel Borzutzky and Raúl Zurita. She lives in South Bend, Indiana and teaches at the University of Notre Dame.You can see Alice Notley read the entirety of The Descent of Alette in a series of recordings made over two nights at The Poetry Center at SFSU. Please follow the podcast if you like what you hear, and leave a rating and review. Share an episode with a friend! (Post it to your social media feeds?) You can also subscribe to my Substack, which I haven't used in a while, but may again. I'm also on Bluesky, now and then.

After a long break, the podcast returns with an episode on the late Alice Notley, who passed away on May 19, 2025. Nick Sturm joins us to discuss Notley's elegy for her husband Ted Berrigan, "At Night the States." Nick Sturm teaches at Georgia State University in Atlanta. His book on small press print culture, publishing communities, and the New York School is forthcoming from Columbia University Press. He is also the editor of Early Works by Alice Notley (Fonograf Editions) and co-editor, with Alice Notley, Anselm Berrigan, and Edmund Berrigan, of Get the Money!: Collected Prose, 1961-1983 by Ted Berrigan (City Lights). His articles and editorial projects have been published at Poetry Foundation, Jacket2, Paideuma, College Literature, Chicago Review, ASAP/J, Women's Studies, Post45, and The Poetry Project Newsletter. You can follow Nick on Bluesky.In the episode, we listen (twice) to a recording of Notley reading the poem in Buffalo, in 1987. That recording, along with many others, can be found on Notley's page in the marvelous PennSound digital archive.Please follow the podcast if you like what you hear, and leave a rating and review. Share an episode with a friend! (Post it to your social media feeds?) You can also subscribe to my Substack, which I haven't used in an even longer while, but who knows what the future holds. I'm also on Bluesky, now and then.

The queens get all Brenda on that Brenda, you Brenda? Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Buy our books:     Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.     James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.SHOW NOTES:Read more about Brenda Coultas here. Watch Coultas read with Alice Notley here (1 hour). And read this conversation between Coultas and Stacy Szymaszek. Watch the best of Brenda Walsh's outfits from Season 3 of Beverly Hills, 90210You can find Brenda Hillman's website here. Hear her read “Species Prepare to Exist After Money." Read Jesse Nathan's conversation with Hillman (in his “Short Conversations with Poets” series) here in McSweeney's Internet Tendency. Follow Brenda K. Starr on Instagram @officialbrendakstarr. Watch Mariah Carey recall singing backup with Starr here. And here is Mariah's official video for “I Still Believe” (covering BKS).Visit Brenda Shaughnessy's website. Hear her read from her newest book, Tanya. And read Hilton Als's essay, “Brenda Shaughnessy's Ferocious Mother Poems” in the New Yorker here.Watch Brenda Blethyn get humped by her dog during a This Morning television interview.For the craziest trip, visit Brenda Walsh Ministries online at https://brendawalsh.com  

Join our poetry Salon and Open Mic: https://parallax-media-network.mn.co/share/5hSLvQW7bNszFGEo?utm_source=manual About David Herz: Hello. My names are David Salzmann Herz. I was born in Boston 70 years ago when McCarthy was getting his comeuppance. I lived with my family somewhere in Massachusetts before moving to Belo Horizonte, Brazil , as part of the Department of the Interior's Punto Quatro program where my father was instrumental in mapping the geology and training a generation of Brazilian geologists. I began writing aged ten at the American school of Sao Paolo which had scorpions in the sandbox. I won a turtle for my prose. Then we lived in Chevy Chase, Maryland before moving to Athens, Ga. Where I met the poet Colman Barks and other luminaries. I moved to Chicago and studied briefly under Del Close at Second City and David Mamet who was then directing the Goodman Theater. As well as Richard McKeon at the University of Chicago who taught Susan Sontag among others. Then I returned home and drove a car from Selma, Alabama to Warminster Pennsylvania, possibly damaging the transmission while accelerating against the snow and ice. The next three years in a bankrupt New York City were richness incarnate. I worked at the Oh Ho So restaurant in SoHo and as a busboy served Harry Belafonte, one of the reasons God created humans, a glass of water. I had Alice Notley, poetess supreme, for a teacher and read my prose work at the Saint Marks in the Bowery Poetry Project. Those were wild times, buildings burning, trash uncollected, rapes a'plenty, and great generosity from compassionate lawyers, doctors and dentists for the impoverished lot we were. You could easily meet people such as John Cage, Merce Cunningham, John Giorno, Ted Berrigan, David Byrne, Patti Smith, Fred Sherry, Nam June Paik, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Charles Bernstein, Tony Towle, Bill Berkson, Eileen Myles, Ted Greenwald, John Cale, Lydia Lunch, Alan Vega, and avoid others such as Valerie Solanas. And then just as I was about to join a rock and roll band I moved to Paris. It's been 45 years. Odd jobs subtitling movies and Sipa Photopress Agency photographs. Doing journalism for English language papers, interviewing the B- 52's, Peter Brook, Zouc, Herbert Achternbusch, Paul Lederman, Boris Bergman and then working for Bull and Alcatel two fine French corporations employing hundreds of thousands who equally vanished into the capitalist sunset. Thanks to a flutist friend in Ircam I got to meet Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez but I don't think they remember me. I did a translation for Sophie Calle before she became Sophie Calle. Also some work for the Royal family of Afghanistan. Back when there was one. At Paris VIII University still in the Bois de Vincennes with the whores whom we did not try to lead to culture I got to attend classes by Lyotard & Deleuze and the Miller Brothers, Lacan's son in laws? Noam Chosmky spoke. I thought to become a consultant in a moment of delusion and ended up teaching for the last 24 years: Polytechnique, SciencesPo, ENST, INT, Supelec, Ecole Centrale, ENPC, ENSTA, Paris V, ICP, ESIEE, ECE, Ecole du Louvre. Before that I was a technical translator, a field I am happy to report that has been almost entirely taken over by machines, bless their soulless bodies. I also got married and my wife and I had two children. But we hadn't really grown up much to the needless suffering of the children and so that marriage went painfully bust...Then I married again and we had a daughter. She's on the phone right now, de rigueur for all 16 year olds. I am a loving observer of the human experiment of which I am inextricably a part, how so ever much I would like to be apart. As we advance, not necessarily progress, into the numbing, memory erasing age of AI, already sinking its canines deep into our pranic jugulars, lose ourselves in our beloved electronic devices, we must look to our hands, our analog writing devices such as pencils and pens and give them a try. Along with all the rest.

SUMMARYIn this first episode of Season 6, producer Andrew Whiteman invites listeners to step into an arena of collaboration between poetry and sound. We all know it when we hear it, and we have mixed feelings about it. Why does the archaic meeting place of music and poem hit such a nerve? Is this art form literature or is it music? Surely, it's not song, is it? And if poems already carry their prosodic intentions within themselves – why bother supplementing them with extraneous audio?" These questions are answered by Siren Recordings, a new digital-DIY sonic poetry label run by Kelly Baron and Andrew Whiteman.*SHOW NOTESAudio played in the episode“Happy Birthday Ed Sanders Thank You!”, written and performed by Edward Sanders ( from "This is the Age of Investigation Poetry and Every Citizen Must Investigate” part of the “Totally Corrupt Dial-a-Poem Series by John Giorno. Found at https://www.ubu.com/sound/gps.html ) and Andrew Whiteman. Unreleased track. Audio clips of Amiri Barak, Helen Adam, and the Four Horseman from Ron Mann's 1980 film Poetry in Motion. found at https://vimeo.com/14191903.“The Great Reigns” written and performed by Erica Hunt ( from Close Listening with Charles Bernstein at WPS1 Clocktower Studio, New York, June 20, 2005, available at https://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Hunt.php ), and Andrew Whiteman. “#7” by Alice Notley and AroarA. Unreleased track. Text taken from Notley's book “In The Pines”, Penguin Books. 2007.“ Pinbot” and “Abu Surveillance” by Anne Waldman and Andrew Whiteman. Unreleased track. Text taken from Waldman's book “Iovis: the Trilogy”, Coffeehouse Press. 2011.“How I wrote Certain of my Books” by David UU and the Avalettes.  from the casette Very Sound (Sound Poems By David UU). Underwhich Audiographic Series, No.18. 1984.  "whn i first came to vancouvr” by bill bissett. from the cassette Sonic Horses. Underwhich Audiographic Series, No.19.1984. "From The Life & Work Of Chapter 7 (For Steven Smith)” by Tekst. from the cassette "Unexpected Passage”.Underwhich Audiographic Series – No. 15. 1982. “ Canto One” by Andrew Whiteman featuring Robert Duncan, Ezra Pound, Richard Sieberth, Al Filreis. buried somewhere at Penn Sound. https://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/. Unreleased track.*PRODUCER BIOAndrew Whiteman is a founding member of the indie-rock collective Broken Social Scene, and a PhD student at Concordia University investigating the confluence of mythology and experimental poetics. He is a musician, producer and sound artist with special interest in Sonic Poetics, and has collaborated on recordings with Alice Notley (In The Pines, 2013) and Anne Waldman (IOVIS, 2023) among others. This work has led directly to the creation of Siren Recordings, a boutique sonic poetry label, hub and ever-growing archive he runs with Kelly Baron and Brandon Hocura.  His divinatory practice is located at https://intarotgate.com.

this is a one take recording of excerpts from Book Three and Book Four of THE DESCENT OF ALETTE by Alice Notley. read by Caridad Svich --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

excerpt from the beginning of Book Two of THE DESCENT OF ALETTE by Alice Notley. read by Caridad Svich. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

S3, Ep. 20: Caridad Svich reads excerpt from the opening of Book One of THE DESCENT OF ALETTE by Alice Notley (reading from 2014 reprint, originally published 1996, Penguin Books). In THE DESCENT OF ALETTE, Alette is in an underworld that will take her on a journey of transformation as she seeks to confront the Tyrant and heal the world. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

Alice Notley has published over forty books of poetry, most recently For the Ride (Penguin Books) and Eurynome's Sandals (PURH). Notley has received many awards including the Academy of American Poets' Lenore Marshall Prize, the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Award, the Griffin International Prize, two NEA Grants, the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a lifetime achievement award. She is also a visual artist and collagist, and a book of her poem-drawings is forthcoming from Archway Editions. Since 1992, Notley has lived and worked in Paris, France.www.miafunk.com www.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.org IG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast

Alice Notley has published over forty books of poetry, most recently For the Ride (Penguin Books) and Eurynome's Sandals (PURH). Notley has received many awards including the Academy of American Poets' Lenore Marshall Prize, the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Award, the Griffin International Prize, two NEA Grants, the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a lifetime achievement award. She is also a visual artist and collagist, and a book of her poem-drawings is forthcoming from Archway Editions. Since 1992, Notley has lived and worked in Paris, France.www.miafunk.com www.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.org IG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast

Alice Notley has published over forty books of poetry, most recently For the Ride (Penguin Books) and Eurynome's Sandals (PURH). Notley has received many awards including the Academy of American Poets' Lenore Marshall Prize, the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Award, the Griffin International Prize, two NEA Grants, the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a lifetime achievement award. She is also a visual artist and collagist, and a book of her poem-drawings is forthcoming from Archway Editions. Since 1992, Notley has lived and worked in Paris, France.www.miafunk.com www.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.org IG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast

Alice Notley has published over forty books of poetry, most recently For the Ride (Penguin Books) and Eurynome's Sandals (PURH). Notley has received many awards including the Academy of American Poets' Lenore Marshall Prize, the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Award, the Griffin International Prize, two NEA Grants, the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a lifetime achievement award. She is also a visual artist and collagist, and a book of her poem-drawings is forthcoming from Archway Editions. Since 1992, Notley has lived and worked in Paris, France.www.miafunk.com www.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.org IG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast

Alice Notley has published over forty books of poetry, most recently For the Ride (Penguin Books) and Eurynome's Sandals (PURH). Notley has received many awards including the Academy of American Poets' Lenore Marshall Prize, the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Award, the Griffin International Prize, two NEA Grants, the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a lifetime achievement award. She is also a visual artist and collagist, and a book of her poem-drawings is forthcoming from Archway Editions. Since 1992, Notley has lived and worked in Paris, France.www.miafunk.com www.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.org IG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast

Alice Notley has published over forty books of poetry, most recently For the Ride (Penguin Books) and Eurynome's Sandals (PURH). Notley has received many awards including the Academy of American Poets' Lenore Marshall Prize, the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Award, the Griffin International Prize, two NEA Grants, the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a lifetime achievement award. She is also a visual artist and collagist, and a book of her poem-drawings is forthcoming from Archway Editions. Since 1992, Notley has lived and worked in Paris, France.www.miafunk.com www.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.org IG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast

Alice Notley has published over forty books of poetry, most recently For the Ride (Penguin Books) and Eurynome's Sandals (PURH). Notley has received many awards including the Academy of American Poets' Lenore Marshall Prize, the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Award, the Griffin International Prize, two NEA Grants, the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a lifetime achievement award. She is also a visual artist and collagist, and a book of her poem-drawings is forthcoming from Archway Editions. Since 1992, Notley has lived and worked in Paris, France.www.miafunk.com www.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.org IG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast

The Speak Angel Series by Alice Notley by Poets & Writers

I know the rest of the night will be as devoted to work as love as I'm now resting in this expensive sentence and in the end I'll spend it fast writing to you anyway, addressing you and a solution or night beginning like a letter, just a few words more freely seeing everything more clearly than the rest of life and love tends to be like windows facing mostly south but surrounding us, I'm thinking of you.Bernadette Mayer's Midwinter Day is a book-length poem entirely written on December 22, 1978. It documents her day—early morning dreams, midday chores with her toddlers, late night all-night writing sessions with her partner—in a panoply of poetic modes. Chris and Suzanne read the poem alongside some of the other books they've read this year, and consider Mayer's works and days.SHOW NOTES.Bernadette Mayer: Midwinter Day. [Bookshop.]Other books by Bernadette Mayer: Memory. Studying Hunger Journals. Eating the Colors of a Lineup of Words: The Early Books of Bernadette Mayer. Sonnets. A Bernadette Mayer Reader. The Helens of Troy, NY. Milkweed Smithereens. 0 to 9: The Complete Magazine, 1967–1969.Bernadette Mayer's pages at the Poetry Foundation and PennSound.Some of her early works can be found at Eclipse.Obituaries in the New York Times and Artforum.Our episodes on Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, Ulysses, Mrs. Dalloway, the Metaphysical Poets, the Iliad, and The Waste Land.Catullus.Geoffrey Chaucer: The House of Fame.Ted and Alice are Ted Berrigan and Alice Notley. John Donne: A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day.Sonnet [You jerk you didn't call me up].Bernadette Mayer's Writing Experiments.Next: Sadeq Hedayat: Blind Owl. [Bookshop.]Support The Spouter-Inn on Patreon and hang out with us in a private Discord.

City Lights celebrates the publication of "Get the Money!: Collected Prose (1961-1983)" by Ted Berrigan, published by City Lights Books. With Edmund Berrigan, Anselm Berrigan, Erica Kaufman, Hoa Nguyen, and Nick Sturm. This event was originally broadcast via Zoom and hosted by Peter Maravelis and moderated by Garrett Caples. You can purchase copies of "Get the Money!: Collected Prose (1961-1983)" directly from City Lights at a 30% discount here: https://citylights.com/get-the-money/ “Get the Money!” was Ted Berrigan's mantra for the paid writing gigs he took on in support of his career as a poet. This long-awaited collection of his essential prose draws upon the many essays, reviews, introductions, and other texts he produced for hire, as well as material from his journals, travelogues, and assorted, unclassifiable creative texts. "Get the Money!" documents Berrigan's innovative poetics and techniques, as well as the creative milieu of poets–centered around New York's Poetry Project–for whom he served as both nurturer and catalyst. Highlights include his journals from the '60s, depicting his early poetic discoveries and bohemian activities in New York; the previously unpublished “Some Notes About ‘C, ‘” an account of his mimeo magazine that serves as a de facto memoir of the early days of the second-generation New York School; a moving and prescient obituary, “Frank O'Hara Dead at 40”; book “reviews” consisting of poems entirely collaged from lines in the book; art reviews of friends and collaborators like Joe Brainard, George Schneeman, and Jane Freilicher; and his notorious “Interviews” with John Cage and John Ashbery, both of which were completely fabricated. "Get the Money!" provides a view into the development of Berrigan's aesthetics in real time, as he captures the heady excitement of the era and champions the poets and artists he loves. Among the most significant American poets of the later 20th century, Ted Berrigan (1934–1983) was a leading force behind the second-generation New York School. Born in Providence, RI, Berrigan attended various local schools, then enlisted in the Army and was stationed in Korea in the aftermath of the Korean War. In the late '50s on the G.I. Bill, he enrolled in the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma, where he earned a B.A. and M.A. During this period he met his younger poetic and artistic comrades Ron Padgett, Dick Gallup, and Joe Brainard, all four of whom moved to New York City. In the early '60s, he was married to the poet Sandy Berrigan, with whom he had two children, David and Kate. He later married the poet Alice Notley and, after periods in Buffalo, Chicago, New York, Bolinas, London, and Essex, settled with her and their sons, Anselm and Edmund, in New York City, where they eventually all became fixtures of the scene around St. Mark's Poetry Project. Berrigan published a magazine, C, in the 60s, and individual volumes by poets under the imprint C Press. His books of poetry include "The Sonnets (1964, 1967, 1982, 2000)", now published by Penguin, "Collected Poems (2007)" and "Selected Poems (2011)," both published by the University of California. This event was made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation: citylights.com/foundation

In this series, you hear about writers' words coming to life in different places—in conversation, in TV writers' rooms, at public readings. When those writers are poets, an especially intense attention to language can do something similarly intense to the places where they read or speak. In this episode, Saeed Jones—author of the new poetry collection Alive at the End of the World—explains how he learned that “my education in poetry as a craft could serve me outside of the context of writing a poem.” Poetic economy of language, he says, informed his work in a newsroom and his presence on social media. You'll also hear archival sound from poets Alice Notley, John Ashbery, and Yusef Komunyakaa, thanks to the New York State Writers Institute. And you'll hear how poetry can echo through an audience, across media, into thought. On this episode: Saeed Jones (conversation with Adam Colman). Books: Alive at the End of the World and Prelude to Bruise. Alice Notley (from the archives). Books: Close to Me & Closer... (The Language of Heaven) and Desamere and Disobedience. John Ashbery (from the archives). Books: Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror and The Tennis Court Oath. Yusef Komunyakaa (from the archives). Books: The Emperor of Water Clocks and Taboo. William Kennedy (conversation with Adam Colman). Books: Changó's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes and Riding the Yellow Trolley Car. Find out more about the New York State Writers Institute at https://www.nyswritersinstitute.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We talk about Merrill's "b o d y" and its relation to Macbeth and then the words et cetera = etc. et cetera, especially in Alice Notely's wonderful four line poem "The Comfort," with some attention to enjambment and end stop.

This podcast is a recording of the 2015 StAnza International Poetry Festival Round Table event in which SPL Programme Manager and poet Jennifer (JL) Williams was in conversation with the poet Alice Notley. It was recorded shortly before she won the 2015 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Alice Notley has published over thirty books of poetry, including (most recently) Songs and Stories of the Ghouls, Negativity's Kiss, and the chapbook Secret ID. With her sons Anselm and Edmund Berrigan, she edited both The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan and The Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan. Notley has received many awards including the Academy of American Poets' Lenore Marshall Prize, the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Award, the Griffin Prize, two NEA Grants, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry. She lives and writes in Paris, France. Many thanks to StAnza International Poetry Festival and to James Iremonger for the music in this podcast. Image: Alice Notley 11.03.11 by kellywritershouse, under a Creative Commons licence

by Alice Notley

Welcome to The Creative Process's Poetry and Prose series. In this episode, we'll be hearing powerful readings of poems and prose from Neil Gaiman, Marge Piercy, Alice Fulton, EJ Koh, Alice Notley, Gerald Fleming, Margo Berdeshevsky, Jess Wilber & Yu Young Lee.· www.neilgaiman.com· www.margepiercy.com· www.alicefulton.com· www.thisisejkoh.com· margoberdeshevsky.com· www.swimtheuniverse.com· www.creativeprocess.info

Alice Notley has published over forty books of poetry, most recently For the Ride (Penguin Books) and Eurynome's Sandals (PURH). Notley has received many awards including the Academy of American Poets' Lenore Marshall Prize, the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Award, the Griffin International Prize, two NEA Grants, the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a lifetime achievement award. She is also a visual artist and collagist, and a book of her poem-drawings is forthcoming from Archway Editions. Since 1992, Notley has lived and worked in Paris, France.

Welcome to The Creative Process's Poetry and Prose series. In this episode, we'll be hearing powerful readings of poems and prose from Neil Gaiman, Marge Piercy, Alice Fulton, EJ Koh, Alice Notley, Gerald Fleming, Margo Berdeshevsky, Jess Wilber & Yu Young Lee.· www.neilgaiman.com· www.margepiercy.com· www.alicefulton.com· www.thisisejkoh.com· margoberdeshevsky.com· www.swimtheuniverse.com· www.creativeprocess.info

What's Love Got To Do With It? is a three-part podcast series about Radical Love. In the second episode, poets Alice Notley and Precious Okoyomon converse together for the first time to discuss how they tune into interconnectedness, why dreaming together might forge collective states of belonging, and ask each other how love moves them and the world. Sharing their poetry and its rootedness in their personal histories – as well as their hopes for the future – Notley and Okoyomon render visions of intergenerational lives in continuous acts of translation. What’s Love Got To Do With It? is programmed and curated by Beatrice Gibson, produced by Alannah Chance, and features unique compositions by Crystabel Riley and Seymour Wright. It is a commission by Bergen Kunsthall; Camden Art Centre, London; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; and Mercer Union, a centre for contemporary art, Toronto.

Welcome to The Creative Process's Poetry and Prose series. In this episode, we'll be hearing powerful readings of poems and prose from Neil Gaiman, Marge Piercy, Alice Fulton, EJ Koh, Alice Notley, Gerald Fleming, Margo Berdeshevsky, Jess Wilber & Yu Young Lee.· www.neilgaiman.com· www.margepiercy.com· www.alicefulton.com· www.thisisejkoh.com· margoberdeshevsky.com· www.swimtheuniverse.com· www.creativeprocess.info

Welcome to The Creative Process's Poetry and Prose series. In this episode, we'll be hearing powerful readings of poems and prose from Neil Gaiman, Marge Piercy, Alice Fulton, EJ Koh, Alice Notley, Gerald Fleming, Margo Berdeshevsky, Jess Wilber & Yu Young Lee.· www.neilgaiman.com· www.margepiercy.com· www.alicefulton.com· www.thisisejkoh.com· www.swimtheuniverse.com· www.creativeprocess.info

Ted Mathys is an assistant professor of Creative Writing in the English Department at Saint Louis University. He is recently named president of the prestigious and venerable St. Louis Poetry Center, which was created in 1946. Mr. Mathys is also the curator for the 100 Boots Poetry Series at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation. Ted Mathys is the author of Gold Cure (Coffee House Press, 2020) as well as Null Set (2015), The Spoils (2009) and Forge (2005). He is the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts St. Louis Regional Arts Commission. Ted Mathys was selected by Alice Notley for the Poetry Society of America's Cecil Hemley Memorial Award, and his poetry and criticism have appeared in American Poetry Review, BOMB, Boston Review, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, jubilat, Fence, The Georgia Review, PBS NewsHour and other publications. Originally from Ohio, Mr. Mathys holds an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he received the John C. Schupes Fellowship for Excellence in Poetry; and an MA in international environmental policy from Tuft's University.

¿Alguien alguna vez le preguntó, le preguntó a esta voz, vos qué querés? A mí nadie me preguntó –ni a mí tampoco- qué era lo que quería hacer acá, en esta tierra o esta mente que compartimos con la gran comunidad que somos. El líder nos consulta gritándonos palabras: si también le gritamos es que estamos de acuerdo, eso se llama demagogia. Me gustaría que me preguntaran qué quiero hacer acá. ¿Qué quiero hacer? Yo quiero saber cosas, quiero amar. Quiero que esta estructura económica y política se caiga de una vez. Eso nos va a traer mucho dolor. ¿Un dolor como un duelo? Quiero saber por qué mis amores tuvieron que morirse. La plata, ¿a quién le importa? Imbéciles, inventamos la plata cuando podíamos haber inventado los regalos. Quiero andar por ahí con un hibisco en el ojal. No quiero ser una persona decente de clase media. No quiero ser próspera: no quiero vivir en una casa con un montón de habitaciones y paneles solares. No quiero nada. No tengo voluntad. Quiero no trabajar. No quiero ver la cara perecedera de él impresa en todas partes y en cualquier superficie. Quiero la luz del sol, aire puro y silencio. Quiero cerebro y quiero pensamiento.

Alice Notley has published over forty books of poetry, most recently For the Ride (Penguin Books) and Eurynome's Sandals (PURH). Notley has received many awards including the Academy of American Poets' Lenore Marshall Prize, the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Award, the Griffin International Prize, two NEA Grants, the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a lifetime achievement award. She is also a visual artist and collagist, and a book of her poem-drawings is forthcoming from Archway Editions. Since 1992, Notley has lived and worked in Paris, France.

Alice Notley has published over forty books of poetry, most recently For the Ride (Penguin Books) and Eurynome's Sandals (PURH). Notley has received many awards including the Academy of American Poets' Lenore Marshall Prize, the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Award, the Griffin International Prize, two NEA Grants, the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a lifetime achievement award. She is also a visual artist and collagist, and a book of her poem-drawings is forthcoming from Archway Editions. Since 1992, Notley has lived and worked in Paris, France.

Alice Notley has published over forty books of poetry, most recently For the Ride (Penguin Books) and Eurynome's Sandals (PURH). Notley has received many awards including the Academy of American Poets' Lenore Marshall Prize, the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Award, the Griffin International Prize, two NEA Grants, the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a lifetime achievement award. She is also a visual artist and collagist, and a book of her poem-drawings is forthcoming from Archway Editions. Since 1992, Notley has lived and worked in Paris, France.

David Trinidad is the author of numerous poetry collections, most recently Swinging on a Star. He teaches poetry and creative writing at Columbia College and lives in Chicago.Alice Notley is the author of over 40 books of poetry. She lives in Paris.Cathy Park Hong’s latest book is Minor Feelings. She is poetry editor of the New Republic and is a professor at Rutgers-Newark University.John Murillo is the author of Up Jump the Boogie and Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry. He is an assistant professor of English at Wesleyan University and also teaches in the low residency MFA program at Sierra Nevada College.Tina Chang is a poet, teacher, and editor. In 2010, she was named Poet Laureate of Brooklyn (the first woman to hold this title).Ada Limón is the author of five books of poetry. She serves on the faculty of Queens University of Charlotte Low Residency M.F.A program, and the online and summer programs for the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center.M. NourbeSe Philip is a poet and writer and lawyer who lives in the City of Toronto. She was born in Tobago and now lives in Canada.New Books Written by and Author/Texts Recommended by David TrinidadPunk Rock Is Cool for the End of the World: Poems of Ed Smith [Editor] (Turtle Point Press, 2019)Eula BissRobyn SchiffEmily DickinsonAlice NotleyWilliam Carlos WilliamsWalt WhitmanSylvia PlathNew Books Written by and Recommended by Tina ChangCathy Park Hong’s Minor Feelings (One World, 2020)Monica Sok's A Nail the Evening Hangs On (Copper Canyon, 2020)Kimiko Hahn’s Foreign Bodies (W.W. Norton, 2020)“The Slur I Never Expected to Hear in 2020,” by Cathy Park Hong for the New York TimesNew Books Written by and Recommended by John MurilloKontemporary Amerikan Poetry (Four Way Books, 2020)New Books Written by and Recommended by Alice NotleyFor the Ride (Penguin, 2020)The New York Times review of For the RideThe New Yorker review of For the RideNew Books Written by and Recommended by Ada LimónThe Carrying (Milkweed, 2018)Loving Kindness by Sharon Salzberg (Shambhala, 2002)Sharon SalzbergNew Books Written by and Recommended by M. NourbeSe PhilipZong! (Wesleyan 2011)New Books Written by and Author/Texts Recommended by Cathy Park HongMinor Feelings (One World, 2020)https://www.patreon.com/commonplacepodcast

Here we speak of Alice Notley’s “Jack Would Speak Through the Imperfect Medium of Alice,” published in Selected Poems of Alice Notley (Talisman House, Publishers, 1993). Abetted in part by Sparrow having been Notley’s student in the mid-1980s, we turn up what insights we may glean about this work of dictation, actual or implied, from the departed Kerouac, touching on his life story and late challenges with the Beat movement he in part set in motion. This brings us to some discussion of the exigencies of the Lower East Side of New York’s '80s poetry forty years back, the New York School poetry “kit” and Notley’s seeming inveighing against scholasticism. We look into the virtues of the “knotty” poem, gender identifications (and ambiguities), the practice of channeling/clairvoyance, Mark Tansey’s “Triumph of the New York School,” Samuel Beckett’s poem “What is the Word?,” Dave Smith’s THE ONE PURE WORD, his critical essays on the poetry of James Wright, and speculations on the emergence of the universe (again). This podcast includes the sound of an undated video on YouTube of Notley reading the poem.

Mary & Wyatt grab some heating pads and settle in for a special “synced cycles” edition of the pod. They talk about how to maintain healthy boundaries in relationships and how your humble hosts have both traditionally done a terrible job of that. Also on the agenda: Game Show!, a bathtub big enough for a bear, and poems by Alice Notley and Safia Elhillo. 

Alice Notley has been described as one of America's greatest living poets. In this special intimate conversation, Alice speaks of her life on both sides of the Atlantic and reads several of her famous works, including "At Night the States," "Jack Would Speak Through the Imperfect Medium of Alice" and "The Mask," as well as poems by Ted, Anselm and Edmund Berrigan. Her latest book is "For the Ride," from Penquin Poets. Featuring original music by Jeff Gburek. Produced by Marjorie Van Halteren.

This week in the pharmacy we have the poet CAConrad! The poems we prescribe and talk about in this episode can be found here: Sophie Robinson’s “biggest loser”: https://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/poetry-spotlight/10/16/a-poem-by-sophie-robinson/ Emily Dickinson’s “Remorse – is Memory – Awake”: https://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/emily-dickinson/remorse-is-memory-awake/ CAConrad grew up in Pennsylvania, where they helped to support their single mother during Conrad’s difficult youth. Influenced by Eileen Myles, Audre Lorde, Alice Notley, and Emily Dickinson, Conrad writes poems in which stark images of sex, violence, and defiance build a bridge between fable and confession. In a 2010 interview with Luke Degnan for BOMBMagazine’s BOMBlog, Conrad discussed their approach to poetry, which focuses on process and on engaging the permeability of the border between self and other. “Ultimately, I want my (Soma)tic poetry and poetics to help us realize at least two things. That everything around us has a creative viability with the potential to spur new thinking and imaginative output and that the most necessary ingredient to bringing the sustainable, humane changes we need and want for our world requires creativity in all lives, every single day.” Conrad is the author of seven books, the latest is titled While Standing in Line for Death (Wave Books, 2017). They are a 2015 Headlands Art Fellow, and has also received fellowships from Lannan Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Banff, Ucross, RADAR, and the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. They conduct workshops on (Soma)tic Poetry and Ecopoetics. — Intro music: Of Montreal’s Knight Rider; outro music is also by Of Montreal (The Party’s Crashing Us)

Today, Alex and Dorothea talk to witch, author, and podcaster, Pam Grossman, host of the Witch Wave Podcast. They discuss Alice Notley's poem "All My Life," dive into Pam's birth chart, and talk about what it means to be a witch in this day and age.  Find more information about Pam's work here: PamGrossman.com -- Poem: "All My Life" by Alice Notely Want to be featured on the show? Leave a voicemail at (646) 397-7573‬ or email a voice memo to AstroPodcast@macmillan.com. For more information about the book go to AstroPoetsBook.com. You can follow Dorothea and Alex @poetastrologers on Twitter.  For more information on other Macmillan Podcasts shows, go to MacmillanPodcasts.com. You can also subscribe to our newsletter to get updates on all our shows delivered straight to your inbox here.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today's poem is Remember What I Came Here to Do to This World Very Little Actually by Alice Notley.

Alice Notley is an American poet whose work has influenced generations of poets; she is considered a pioneering voice on topics such as motherhood, feminism, disobedience and domestic life. Notley has experimented widely with poetic form and has written a book of criticism, a play, and a biography. She has also edited three publications. Her collage art appeared in Rudy Burckhardt's film "Wayward Glimpses" and her illustrations have appeared on the cover of numerous books, including some of her own. With over forty books and chapbooks and several major awards to her credit, she is one of America's most prolific and lauded poets. She lives in Paris, France. We met in Ottawa, Canada to talk about, among other things, the enjoyment, pleasure and necessity of poetry; language, communication, voice, and hearing versus reading; Shakespeare; the difficulty of being a female poet; Sylvia Plath; postpartum depression; John Keats; Homer; reading aloud; suffering, skepticism, fate, the death of those close to you and the world of the dead. Hope you enjoy the conversation!

Host Rachel Zucker speaks with one of her most important influences and inspirations, author of more than 30 books, poet Alice Notley. They talk about a recent reading that Notley gave with Eileen Myles and Sonia Sanchez that Zucker attended, Notley’s reading and poetic styles, and how Zucker came to Notley’s work. They also discuss writing an epic, suffering, writing about family, writing through pain, communication with the dead, how Notley represents her deceased brother, poetry as the public communication of the dead, money, poverty, survivor's benefits, working for Allen Ginsberg, the dearth of women (particularly women with children) in poetry, the shock and shame of postpartum depression, self-hypnosis, the unconscious, the tyrant, Trump, fascism, the desert, and growing up in a small town. EXTRA MATERIALS FOR EPISODE 26 Books by Alice Notley Certain Magical Acts (Penguin, 2016) Benediction (Letter Machine Editions, 2015) Culture of One (Penguin, 2011) Songs and Stories of the Ghouls (Wesleyan Poetry Series, 2011) Culture of One (Penguin, 2011) Reason and Other Women (Chax Press, 2010) Grave of Light (Wesleyan University Press, 2008) In the Pines (Penguin, 2007) Alma, or The Dead Women (Granary Books, 2006) Coming After: Essays on Poetry (University of Michigan Press, 2005) Disobedience (Penguin, 2001) Mysteries of Small Houses (Penguin, 1998) The Descent of Alette (Penguin, 1996) Closer to Me & Closer…(The Language of Heaven) & Desamere (O Books, 1995) Other Books and Writers Mentioned in the Episode Alice Quinn Eileen Myles Sonia Sanchez Bob Creeley Rachel Zucker’s MOTHERs (Counterpath, 2013) Diane Wolkstein’s Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth (Harper, 1983) A Curriculum of the Soul by Jack Clarke and Al Glover (Spuyten Duyvil Publishing) Joanne Kyger Samuel Noah Kramer Kenneth Koch Allen Ginsberg Bob Rosenthal Ted Berrigan Philip Whalen Edwin Denby Anselm Berrigan Eddie Berrigan Bob Holman Sylvia Plath Jack Kerouac Other Relevant Links Bob Wilson

Monday Reading Series There's nothing worse than funny poems but often people laugh in poetry readings and you don't know when it's going to happen & that's what's truly live about it. They may not ever laugh at that same moment in your poem again. So what was it. And what's the interim between the poems called when the poet does patter and drinks water and looks weird or calm and if you're some poets deadhead you learn that they shamelessly do that patter again and again. What if the poem never came, if the poet got up there and kept pattering. Would the meaning of the word ‘poetry' stand or would it be something else, a clown or a sensai looking for a laugh or a tear or an extended or occasional huh. A room of all silence. I'm pondering that. Bring your stupid mind & your broken heart. I'm making my bid. Eileen Myles was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1949, was educated in Catholic schools, graduated from the University of Massachusetts-Boston in 1971, and moved to New York City in 1974 to be a poet. She gave her first reading at CBGB's, and then gravitated to St. Mark's church where she studied with Ted Berrigan, Alice Notley, and Bill Zavatsky. She has published more than a dozen volumes of poetry and fiction including Not Me (1991), Chelsea Girls (1994), Cool for You (2000), and Skies (2001). Recent books include Sorry, Tree (2007), The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art (2009), and Inferno: a poet's novel (2010). Her new selected poems, I Must Be Living Twice, will be published this September by Ecco/Harper Collins.

In this episode I get to talk to Zoe Tuck in a coffee shop in Oakland. We discuss speculative fiction, the second wave feminism she navigated during her coming of age years, spirituality, trans identities and collective memory, and more.  Zoe's website is here: zoetuck.com and you can order Terror Matrix from TIL here: http://timelessinfinitelight.com/products/zoe-tuck-br-terror-matrix  Other writers and thinkers brought up in this show:    David Antin: http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/188685/talmudic-improv-david-antin Interview that Tom Leger was part that I referenced: http://www.lambdaliterary.org/interviews/09/17/three-umpires-walk-into-a-bar-transgender-authors-and-editors-on-transgender-literature/ "What is Bay Area Poetry" Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/heonversant Zoe’s review of Archipelago: http://www.spdbooks.org/pages/staff-picks/default.aspx Connie Willis: http://www.tor.com/2015/06/24/where-to-start-with-the-works-of-connie-willis/ Ursula K. Le Guinn: http://www.ursulakleguin.com/ Laura Moriarty: http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/1891190245/ultravioleta.aspx Alice Notley: http://www.amazon.com/Descent-Alette-Penguin-Poets/dp/0140587640 Zach Ozma: http://cargocollective.com/zachozma bell hooks on arts education and visual politics: http://www.amazon.com/Art-My-Mind-Visual-Politics/dp/1565842634

Episode Overview: April is National Poetry Month and some of the OverDrive staff is celebrating by having a themed episode where we share some of our favorite poems and poets and even read a couple of poems on air. The professional book nerds also share some non-poetry recent reads and forthcoming titles we are looking forward to reading. Feel free to let us know some of your favorite poems by emailing us at feedback@overdrive.com    Featured OverDrive Staff: Jill, Annie, Todd   Intro (0:00-3:01)   Recent Reads: (3:02-13:59) Gone with the Mind by Mark Leyner My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist by Mark Leyner Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog by Mark Leyner The Sugar-Frosted Nutsack by Mark Leyner Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein Girl In a Band by Kim Gordon  Brave Enough by Cheryl Strayed The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture by Glen Weldon Ready Player One by Ernest Cline Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen by Alison Weir   Celebrating National Poetry Month: (14:00-31:59) Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion by Pasha Malla and Jeff Parker Some Ether by Nick Flynn The Forgiveness Parade by Jeffrey McDaniel The Endarkenment by Jeffrey McDaniel Chapel of Inadvertent Joy by Jeffrey McDaniel Bright Dead Things by Ada Lilmon Diving Into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich The Dream of a Common Language by Adrienne Rich Erratic Facts by Kay Ryan Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur The Spoons In the Grass Are There To Build a Moat by Linda Bruckheimer    Forthcoming Titles and Other Books (32:00-End) Sex & Love & by Bob Hicok Words for Empty and Words for Full by Bob Hicok The Romanovs by Simon Sebag Motefiore Certain Magical Acts by Alice Notley  

Alice Notley says there is "probably nothing more disobedient than being a comic poet, since no one's ever sure if that's good enough." In this episode, the razor-sharp & brilliantly funny Nicole Steinberg talks humor in poetry, poetry/life balance & how to stay on that prolific grind, bro heckling at readings, the downsides & upsides of integrating pop culture into her work, & much more. She also reads some of her fantastic poems, both old & new. This one's not to be missed! episode tags: how writing poetry is like Weight Watchers; pop culture in poems, giving 'em something to latch onto, & subsequent resistance; comedic timing & "You can be smart without being funny, but you can't be funny without being smart"; a rare breed of POETRY HECKLERS; on being uncomfortably & unapologetically feminine; the poem that a bro SO hated; "I have no problem provoking men.."; culling sonnets from Lucky magazine; are men ever frazzled or breezy or shrill?; brand-new bodega snack roulette format! (& jazzy theme song); becoming the Janeane Garofalo of poetry; why Nicole's forthcoming book is called Glass Actress; why Nicole's poems are gonna be on 1,500 posters (& how we can steal them); hot saliva action

Wednesday Reading Series Alice Notley has published over thirty books of poetry, including (most recently) Songs and Stories of the Ghouls, Negativity's Kiss, and the chapbook Secret I D. With her sons Anselm and Edmund Berrigan, she edited both The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan and The Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan. Notley has received many awards including the Academy of American Poets' Lenore Marshall Prize, the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Award, the Griffin Prize, two NEA Grants, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry. She lives and writes in Paris, France.

This podcast is a recording of the 2015 StAnza International Poetry Festival Round Table event in which SPL Programme Manager and poet Jennifer (JL) Williams was in conversation with the poet Alice Notley. Alice Notley has published over thirty books of poetry, including (most recently) Songs and Stories of the Ghouls, Negativity’s Kiss, and the chapbookSecret I D. With her sons Anselm and Edmund Berrigan, she edited both The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan and The Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan. Notley has received many awards including the Academy of American Poets’ Lenore Marshall Prize, the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Award, the Griffin Prize, two NEA Grants, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry. She lives and writes in Paris, France. Many thanks to StAnza International Poetry Festival and to James Iremonger for the music in this podcast. (https://jamesiremonger.wordpress.com/tabla/)

The heroine of Alice Notley's noir epic poem is named Ines. This is short for "inessential," which is what Notley says the poet is, and, really, what we all are.

Bob Holman Sing This One Back to Me: The Spoken Word Bob Holman studied poetry at Columbia University in the 1970s (where he now teaches), but considers his “major poetry schooling” to be his time on the Lower East Side in New York with Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, Anne Waldman, Miguel Piñero, Hettie Jones, Ed Sanders, Amiri Baraka, Ted Berrigan, Alice Notley, Pedro Pietri, David Henderson, Steve Cannon, and many others. Join Michael Lerner in a conversation about Bob Holman’s life, history with the Beat Poets, his activism, and the oral tradition of spoken word or “slam” poetry. Bob Holman As a promoter of poetry in many media, Bob has spent the last four decades working variously as an author, editor, publisher, performer, emcee of live events, director of theatrical productions, producer of films and television programs, record label executive, university professor, poet’s house proprietor, and archivist. Bob is the founder and proprietor of the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City, which opened to the public in September 2002. Holman’s most recent work has been devoted to bringing attention to Endangered Languages — he is the host of Language Matters!, a PBS documentary shot in Wales, Hawaii, and Australia, that airs in late 2013. His most recent collection, Sing This One Back to Me, was released by Coffee House Press in May 2013. Find out more about Bob on his website. Find out more about The New School at tns.commonweal.org.

Sorry, Tree (Wave Books) and Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press) and Women, The New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press) Critic David Lehman has called the New York School of Poetry "the Last Avant Garde." Poet and critic Maggie Nelson suggests it might better be considered "one of the first gay avant gardes," since its original members included Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery and James Schuyler. We examine the role of women in the New York School: Barbara Guest, Alice Notley, Bernadette Mayer and Eileen Myles. How did these women pave the way for today's women poets, who, like Maggie Nelson, are conscious of gender and its effects on poetry?