Joe Brainard is the only painter whose work adorns the cover of two volumes of "The Best American Poetry"
For Joe Brainard
The road sign said snow
‘Well, I never said it was spring’
in 1968 in whose loft downtown
under a cobweb of windshield
a butterfly beneath a branch within
a border of blue 1953 Easter Seals
the sun surrounded by streaks
of blue and white in a frame
and a wave crashing against it
the logic a rhyme of college and collage
the logic a rebus the message simple
Nancy a blueprint bingo cherries
and two fragments of letters
handwritten big block letters neat
I looked and the three hairs
in the sink spelled out Joe
David Lehman, 12/ 20 / 2000
On October 30, 2024, at 7 pm at St Mark's Church in NYC there will be a reception in honor of Joe Brainard's Love, Joe: Selected Letters (edited by Daniel Kane; Columbia UP). .The evening will include readings by Brad Gooch, Vincent Katz, Anne Waldman, Keith McDermott, Michael Lally, Ron Padgett, and Ann Lauterbach.
Paul Auster and others remember Joe Brainard here.
https://youtu.be/I2Znn0oGrfE?t=304
See, too, this "Homage to Joe Brainard."