Bernadette Mayer in Conversation with Jennifer Karmin and Stephanie Anderson

Poet, writer, and visual artist Bernadette Mayer discusses her work and recollection of "Memory," a poetic audio-visual installation currently on view in the Poetry Foundation gallery, with poets Jennifer Karmin and Stephanie Anderson. A brief slide show and audio presentation precedes the afternoon’s conversation.

Stephanie Anderson is the author of In the Key of Those Who Can No Longer Organize Their Environments (Horse Less Press), Variants on Binding (forthcoming, National Poetry Review Press), and Lands of Yield (forthcoming, Horse Less Press), as well as several chapbooks. She lives in Chicago and edits the micropress Projective Industries.

A founding curator of the Red Rover Series, Jennifer Karmin teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College and is author of the text-sound epic Aaaaaaaaaaalice. This spring Convulsive Editions will release The Sexual Organs of the IRS & Other Poems, a collaborative chapbook with Bernadette Mayer.

An avant-garde writer associated with the New York School of poets, Bernadette Mayer's collections of poetry include Midwinter Day (1982, 1999), A Bernadette Mayer Reader (1992), The Desire of Mothers to Please Others in Letters (1994), Another Smashed Pinecone (1998), and Poetry State Forest (2008).

This event is made possible by collaboration with the University of Chicago and Special Collections & Archives at the UC San Diego Library.