John Yau & No Land Poetry Garden Party at the Woodstock Shivastan Bookshop
Schedule
Sun Sep 15 2024 at 05:00 pm to 08:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
6 Hillcrest Ave/Sgt. Richard Quinn Drive (Up Neher St From Tinker St, Next to the American Legion, In the Back), Woodstock, NY, United States, New York 12498 | Woodstock, NY
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Please join us for a poetry garden party featuring poetsJohn Yau & No Land
Sunday Sept 15 from 5 to 8pm
In the Woodstock Shivastan Poetry Ashram Bookshop secret garden 6 Sgt Richard Quinn Drive Woodstock NY
- the bright orange cabin behind the Mothership Gallery.
The event is hosted by poet Shiv Mirabito & will include our featured poets, a vegetarian potluck with snacks & drinks, an informal OPEN MIC sharing circle, & a sunset bonfire.
Poet, art critic, and curator John Yau has published over 50 books of poetry, fiction, and art criticism. Born in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1950 to Chinese emigrants, Yau attended Bard College and earned an MFA from Brooklyn College in 1978. His first book of poetry, Crossing Canal Street, was published in 1976. Since then, he has won acclaim for his poetry’s attentiveness to visual culture and linguistic surface. In poems that frequently pun, trope, and play with the English language, Yau offers complicated, sometimes competing versions of the legacy of his dual heritages—as Chinese, American, poet, and artist. A contributor for Contemporary Poets wrote: “Yau’s poems [are] often as much a product of his visual sense of the world, as his awareness of his double heritage from both Oriental and Occidental cultures.”
No Land is an artist, poet, and photographer. She fled school to convene with the outrider poets, jazz musicians, hackers, and magicians of the lower east side artist community. Her photojournalistic work has been published by Levy Gorvy Gallery, The Brooklyn Rail, The Village Voice, The Indypendent, Bill Moyer’s Journal, and others. In 2018, she released Authentic Artifice, an art-book of poem and photographs published by Newest York. Her cinema-poem, “Crepuscular,” a collaboration with the poet Anne Waldman, premiered at The Poetry Project in 2018.
The Shivastan Poetry Ashram is a community based independent book shop, art gallery, giftshop & grassroots co-operative promoting poetry, friendship, wisdom & compassion for all beings located in central Woodstock NY. We are now OPEN 1 to 6 pm everyday at 6 Sgt Richard Quinn Drive Woodstock NY - the bright orange cabin behind The Mothership ⭐️ please stop by any afternoon & browse the thousands of new, used & rare books; art & oddities; unusual jewelry, crafts & gifts from India & Nepal.
Frequent gatherings involve an outdoor sunset bonfire in a beautiful secret garden; an informal poetry/music/story sharing circle; & usually a vegetarian potluck.
The Woodstock Shivastan Poetry Ashram was started by poet & publisher Shiv Mirabito - it is loosely based on Ed Sanders' LES community Peace Eye Bookshop, Allen Ginsberg's Cherry Valley Committee on Poetry, & Angus Maclise & Ira Cohen’s Spirit Catcher Bookshop on Freak Street in Kathmandu. It is the home base of the small press Shivastan Press {Woodstock~Kathmandu} which has published limited edition poetry chapbooks & broadsides on handmade paper in Nepal since 1997 by some of the most exciting poets in America. It is our 27th anniversary this year!
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Where is it happening?
6 Hillcrest Ave/Sgt. Richard Quinn Drive (Up Neher St From Tinker St, Next to the American Legion, In the Back), Woodstock, NY, United States, New York 12498Event Location & Nearby Stays:
