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3 unusual facts about Poetry Project


Cedar Sigo

Sigo has given poetry readings in various locations across the United States, including the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, the Museum of Contemporary Art, The San Francisco Poetry Center, San Francisco Art Institute, and the Suquamish Community House, also called sgwәdzadad qәł ?altxw (The House of Awakened Culture).

Poetry Project

The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church was founded in 1966 in the East Village of Manhattan by the poet and translator Paul Blackburn, it has been a crucial venue for new and experimental poetries for over four decades.

Housed in the historic St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, the grounds are the site of historic memorials to poets Paul Blackburn, Allen Ginsberg, Michael Scholnick, W.H. Auden, Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan, and others.



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Brenda Coultas

With Eleni Sikelianos, she worked at the Poetry Project in NYC, edited the Poetry Project Newsletter

George Edward Kimball

In the late 1960s Kimball (with John Fowler and Charles Plymell) was an editor for the influential Midwestern magazine Grist before moving to New York, where he was heavily involved in the literary scene revolving around the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s-in-the-Bouwerie and the Lion’s Head saloon in Greenwich Village.

George Ella Lyon

(Editor, with Bob Henry Baber and Gurney Norman; and author of introduction) Old Wounds, New Words: Poems from the Appalachian Poetry Project, 1994.

Jim Cohn

In 1996, Jim began planning for an online poetry project that would explore Beat Generation influences on the Postbeat Poets.

Natalya Medvedeva

In 1989 she participated in a collective poetry project, The Last December 16, 1989, together with poets Oleg Prokofiev and Anton Koslov Mayr.

Roger Greenwald

Bouwerie Poetry Project Workshop, led by the poet Joel Oppenheimer (assisted by Joel Sloman).