It was a
first rate audience
in every sense.
Jerome read first.
His corporate sonnets
reflect years of
labor that Marx
would characterize as
alienated in the
tall tower of
Time and Life
on Sixth Avenue.
There is beauty
in a cliche
just as there
is humor and
then just to
clinch the deal
comes the rhyme..
Well played, Jerome.
The host beckoned.
I read second:
I read poems
in the manner
of Catullus,Herrick,
Goethe, Keats, Mayakovsky,
Millay, Stevens, Dorothy
Parker, Charles Bukowski,
and Kenneth Koch.
I also told
an old joke.
David Shapiro read
poems from his
new book including
"Why Rimabud?" and
conversed with the
darkness wondering whether
you could see
the darkness or
whether total darkness
was a poem.
"As Kafka wrote,
there is hope,
but not for
us," he concluded.
The mermaids sang
to him and
the crowd cheered.
All were glad.
Drinks were had.
— David Lehman
(May 8, 2017)
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On Sunday evening May 7, 2017, at the Zinc Bar in New York City, David Lehman, Jerome Sala, and David Shapiro (pictured left) read from their new books of poetry
from 5 PM to 7 PM
Book Party for New Collections of Poems by David Lehman, Jerome Sala & David Shapiro
David Lehman
New Book: Poems in the Manner of… (Scribner)
David Lehman is the series editor of The Best American Poetry, and is also the editor of the Oxford Book of American Poetry. His other books of poetry include New and Selected Poems, Yeshiva Boys, When a Woman Loves a Man, and The Daily Mirror. His most recent nonfiction book is Sinatra’s Century. He lives in New York City and Ithaca, New York.
Jerome Sala
New Book: Corporations Are People, Too! (NYQ Books)
Jerome Sala’s other books of poems include The Cheapskates, Prom Night (a collaboration with artist Tamara Gonzales), Look Slimmer Instantly, Raw Deal: New and Selected Poems, The Trip, I Am Not a Juvenile Delinquent and Spaz Attack. His poems and essays have appeared in The Nation, Pleiades, Evergreen Review and Rolling Stone.
David Shapiro
New Book: In Memory of an Angel (City Lights Books)
David Shapiro is a poet, literary and art critic and presently teaches art history at Patterson College and literature at Cooper Union. He published his first poem at age 13 and his first collection, January (1965), at age 18. Subsequent volumes include Poems from Deal (1969), A Man Holding an Acoustic Panel (1971), The Page-Turner (1972), Lateness (1977), To an Idea (1983), House (Blown Apart) (1988), After a Lost Original (1994), A Burning Interior (2002), and New and Selected Poems (1965–2006) (2007).
Where and When:
ZINC BAR
Sunday, May 7, 2017, 5-7PM
82 W. 3rd Street
NYC
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