Poetry Programming: Afternoon of Music & Poetry

This event will take place IN PERSON.

An afternoon of music & poetry. Barry Wallenstein will launch his new book of poetry, It’s About Time [New York Quarterly Books, 02.11.22] with a reading accompanied by music. Barry will share the afternoon with poet/ visual artist/ and party master Jeffrey Cyphers Wright.

Barry Wallenstein is the author of ten collections of poetry, the most recent being Time on the Move, [Xanadu Press, 2020] and Tony’s Blues (bilingual – French & English), Drastic Dislocations: New and Selected Poems [NYQ Books, 2012]. His poetry has appeared in over 100 journals, including Ploughshares, The Nation, American Poetry Review, and New York Quarterly. He currently performs in New York City with pianist Adam Birnbaum and the internationally known French horn artist Vincent Chancey. Barry continues to collaborate with musicians internationally. In recent years, he has worked with Serge Pesce in France, Massimo Cavalli in Portugal, and the band Drastic Dislocations in Switzerland. In 2012 he composed lyrics for 8 ballads by the saxophone artist and composer, Pepper Adams. He continues to work on lyrics for jazz composers.   

Ken Filiano, an American jazz and orchestral bassist based in Brooklyn. Since the 1970s, Filiano has played or recorded with many of the jazz luminaries here in the US and abroad. They include Anthony Braxton, Fred Ho, Bill Dixon, Vincent Chancey and others. Filiano is on the teaching roster at the New School, and he teaches master classes in bass and improvisation and has a private studio in Brooklyn. He has performed with Barry over many years - especially at the Cornelia St. Cafe.

Publisher and editor, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, moved to New York City in 1976 and began Hard Press, publishing poetry postcards and books. He attended workshops at St. Mark's Poetry Project with Ted Berrigan, Alice Notley, and Jim Brodey. He went on to study with Allen Ginsberg at Brooklyn College, where he earned a Masters of Fine Arts in Poetry. Wright launched Cover Magazine in 1987. Wright is the author of 17 books of verse including, most recently, Blue Lyre from Dos Madres Press, Radio Poems from The Operating System, and Fake Lies from Fell Swoop. Wright contributes criticism regularly to the American Book Review and ArtNexus. Recently, he received a Kathy Acker Award for writing and publishing.  Wright has been publishing Live Mag! since 2007.

Binding the Spells

"What to do when spell-bound,

with all those years behind me

and a few up ahead."

Barry Wallenstein