Singing in Unison Part 9: Peter Acheson & Gret Sterret Smith @SLAG&RX Gallery, NYC

Produced by the Brooklyn Rail, this festive gathering and poetry reading celebrates the closing of Singing in Unison Part 9: Peter Acheson & Gret Sterret Smith, featuring readings by Andrei Codrescu, Alicia Mountain, Vincent Katz, and Phong H. Bui

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Bucharest Inside the Beltway presents a bevy of brilliant Romanian-American poets

Adela Sinclair, Carmen Firan, Adrian Sangeorzan

Guaranteed timelessness

Andrei joins local musicians, poets and authors of like winter-minds

Full line up here

Andrei reads a 2:25p

Andrei and Vincent are delighted that the inaugural reading from their new collaborative poem A Possible Epic of Carew (Black Widow Press 2023) will be held at the Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation

Hosted and introduced by the Foundation’s curator and Program Director, Alex Paul Chapin, the reading will include a reception and book signing

The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundationis a nonprofit organization that promotes the legacies of the artists Milton Resnick (1917–2004) and Pat Passlof (1928–2011) and supports the work of other painters by organizing exhibitions, publishing catalogs, and hosting related programming in Resnick’s former home/studio in Manhattan’s Lower East Side

Vincent Katz, born in New York, is known for his work as a poet, critic, curator, and translator. He is the author of fourteen books of poetry, including Broadway for Paul (Alfred A. Knopf 2020), Southness (Lunar Chandelier Press 2016), Swimming Home (Nightboat Books,2015), Understanding Objects (Hard Press 2000) and Cabal of Zealots (Hanuman Books 1988). He is the author of The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius, which received the National Translation Award from the American Literary Translators Association. He has curated exhibitions on Black Mountain College and Rudy Burckhardt, and recently co-curated a retrospective of the films of Isabelle Huppert at Film Forum in New York City. From 2010 to 2021, Katz curated "Readings in Contemporary Poetry" series at Dia:Chelsea in New York City. More info vincentkatz.net

The authors are grateful to the The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation and to Alex Paul Chapin for graciously hosting this event

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To celebrate the launch of the new podcast The Second Oswald –– Live one-night-only play with totally slammin’ poet Bob Holman & followed by a discussion hosted by Jesse Walker, author United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory. HarperCollins, 2013

A new podcast and play, THE SECOND OSWALD sheds light on a little known aspect of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. Could the accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, been set up to be the patsy? The series focuses on writer Kerry Thornley who served with Lee Harvey Oswald in the US Marines and wrote a novel about him a year before he killed JFK. Thornley would later implicate himself in the conspiracy and became a major influence on Q-Anon and other fringe underground groups through his writings. T

This is not just another conspiracy theory

tickets available at evenbrite here

Press: The Village Sun | Going Deep with Russ Baker

New York Public Library Jefferson Market Branch and Three Rooms Press present 

A Dual Book Launch with Peter Carlaftes & Kat Georges – celebrating the release of their new poetry collections

LIFE IN THE PAST LANE and AWE AND OTHER WORDS LIKE WOW

with special guests Andrei Codrescu • Uche Nduka • Puma Perl • Karen Hildebrand • Jane LeCroy • Sophie Malleret

Jefferson Market Library NYC – free & open to the public more info here

WHITE RABBIT  magazine, Ed. Dorothy Friedman August, and Jefferson Market Library present The Two Steves, a compilation party and a reading dedicated to Steve Cannon and Steve Dalachinsk

This is an ensemble, group participatory event to commemorate the life and work of these two larger than life denizens of the LES poetry scene

Yuko Otomo, Nancy Mercado, Ron Kolm, Danny Shot, Austin Alexis, Katherine Arnoldi, Ama Birch, Ken Angel Davis, Jim Feast, Bonny Finberg, Philip Giambri, Diana Gitesha Hernandez, Bob Holman, Linda Kleinbub, David Lawton, Mindy Levokove, Prince McNally, Lissa Moira, Shalom Neuman, Eve Packer, Puma Perl, Barbara Rosenthal, Yuyutsu Sharma, Larissa Shmailo, Joanna Sit, Mervyn Taylor, Richard West

WHITE RABBIT’S publisher is award-winning poet Dorothy Friedman whose work has appeared most recently in Tribes WORD anthology

This event is free and open to the public

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2023 NYC ¡DADA! DO PART II

Andrei has contributed to and particiapates again this year in Three Rooms Press Maintenant 17’s complication of contemporary dada art and literature

It will certainly live up to its promise: A Highly Eclectic DADA Performance Event plus Part II of the NYC Coast launch of MAINTENANT 17: Journal of Contemporary DADA Writing and Art –– An evening of provocative, exuberant, eclectic performance and poetry is slated to hit the stage

Readings by: Joel Allegretti, Billy Cancel, Robert C. Ford, Robert Gibbons, Gordon Gilbert, Mark Glista, Meghan Gruposso, Heide Hatry, Adeena Karasick, Matthew Hupert, Debra Jenks, Jerry Johnson, David Lawton, Jane LeCroy, Martin H. Levinson, Karen Neuberg, Ruth Oisteanu, Valery Oisteanu, Jane Ormerod, Giorgia Pavlidou, Puma Perl, Bruce Robinson, Martina Salisbury, Lynnea Villanova, George Wallace, and Francine Witte

Three Rooms Press co-founders and MAINTENANT editors Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges host. 

This event is free and open to the public

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A Possible Epic of Care: A Collaborative Poem Between Andrei Codrescu and Vincent Katz

Andrei on his collaboration between himself and Vincent Katz: ‘Our common bonds at that curious time of the planet-engulfing Plague were various: we were friends, we were poets, we took poetry seriously enough to believe in its superpowers, but above all, we both had mothers who at ages past Ninety needed the care and attention that we could provide them. Our exchanges quickly became an ongoing epic of care. It became also a store of reminiscences, activities and ideas that paid homage to the women we cared for—communiqués and confessions that we would have liked them to appreciate’

It feels dry to recite Vincent’s bona fides; Vincent is Andrei’s esteemed colleague and very dear friend. Vincent Katz is a beautiful poet, translator, critic, editor, and curator. He has authored fifteen books of poetry, including Broadway for Paul (2020, Alfred A. Knopf), Southness (2016, Lunar Chandelier Press), Swimming Home (2015, Nightboat Books), Rapid Departures (2005, Ateliê Editorial), Understanding Objects (2000, Hard Press), Pearl (1998, powerHouse Books) and Cabal of Zealots (1988, Hanuman Books). more here

From A Possible Epic of Care: ‘I was washing an eggplant at the end of the world on February 4 2020 when I heard from Vincent. It was Mozart's 39;s birthday, a momentous event that the melophiliac
Vincent Katz would never have let pass without a celebratory panegyri

There it was in the email, beginning. It’s Mozart's39th birthday. He's only 264.years old; Mozart died young but kept on living. Vincent and I were older already than
Mozart was when he died, but if we had any chance at living as long as he did we had better get to work’

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Black Widow Press, October 17 2023

ISBN: 979-8-9880852-2-5 paperback, 144 pages

Renown film director Werner Herzog will receives FilmScene’s Cinema Savant award at the Second Annual Refocus Film Festival. Afterwards, Andrei will appear in conversation with Werner to discuss Werner’s life in film and soon-to-be-released autobiography, Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir

If you find yourself in Iowa City in mid October – this stimulating conversation will prove a must-see

event information here

award information here

recap here

Andrei is again delighted to participate in the Boog City Arts Festival – always a favorite!

Andrei will join Vincent Katz, Joanna Fuhrman, Jiwon Choi and Uche Nduka. Hosted by Boog City editor David A. Kirschenbaum

Keep an eye out for the forthcoming collaboration: An Epic of Care by Andrei Codrescu and Vincent Katz – Black Press (fall 2023)

Here’s link to last years’s Boog City 16 Arts Festival – this years’ is on the way!

I once tried to give Kundera $60,000 to give a lecture in Oklahoma

Andrei provides his recollections and insights into Kundera’s literary contributions, without revision

As folk wisdom has it, there is a long, possibly infinite line of better-than Shakespeare Shakespeares waiting in the afterworld for their rewards

read the article on The New Black Bart Poetry Society’s online publication here

Andrei is honored to take the stage with fellow insurgent poet Lucien Bell. This is the inaugural year of Moving Center Literary Festival in Prague, Czech Republic – aimed at uniting international artists in celebration and art

Poet, singer songwriter, novelist & founder of the Moving Center Literary Festival Lucien Zell is an American expat living in a livening up Prague through is art, music and vivacious soul traveling. Learn more here & here

more on the festival here

In recognition of Codrescu's literary excellence, his public passion, defense of the arts, and his work in publishing, radio and television…residencies in Stare Mesto–Prague 1 & Hostka the Czecch Republic. 2023–2024

Andrei was surprised and delighted to have been selected for this honor. He plans to make use of the International Fusion Museum’s facilities in Prague and in the Czech Republic to defy expectations

Andrei loves Mina Loy. So does Roger Conover

Roger Conover conceived, designed, curated, and lent his collections to Bowdoin College Museum of Art for the exhibition Mina Loy: Strangeness is Inevitable – April 6, 2023 - September 17, 2023. Shaw Ruddock & Boyd Galleries

Mina Loy, dadaist, free spirit and uncoventioal poet is brought to life via this exhibition which features her written work, visual art, images and sound recordings. Its an exquisitely well curated, overdue commemoration that highlights the 100 years of poetry, art and song lyric influence she’s wrought by defying conventions of every stripe

At this event, Andrei joins a roster of international poets to celebrate Mina Loy’s poetry: Suzanna Zelazo (Canada), Roger Conover (USA & Slovenia), Lindsay Bernal (USA), and Gary Lawless (USA)

Roger is a wonderful poet. Additionally, he is the Executive Editor emeritus of MIT Press, and Mina Loy's editor and literary executor, and edited two important compilations of her verse: the Last Lunar Baedeker in 1982 and the Lost Lunar Baedeker in 1996. This two volumes brought her work to likes of rock legend Thurston Moore and experimental hip-hop artist busterwolf

Presented by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Free and open to the public

Link to the poetry reading event here

Link to the full exhibition here

Award-winning journalist Jim Engster and Andrei rap about Andrei everything from homicide rates to our most recent former President on WRKF’s Talk Louisiana

Live June 19, 2023 9a CT on WRKF 89.3 Baton Rouge Public Radio

Recording available here

Episode 007: Andrei Codrescu – i hope ai can make mistakes

Andrei discusses AI jiu jitsu and discovers the surprising beauty of generative poetry

listen here or on Apple Podcasts or Spotify

Directional/RapidEyeMovers is a podcast about far more than videogames and the Creative Rebellion alone

Chantal Ryan disrupts your thinking and develops your avant in the land of game-nod

Jörg Tittel makes movies that compel and dazzle – including The White King (2016), with Jonathan Pryce

The National Museum of Romanian Literature and the Vinea Publishing House celebrate the re-issue of Andrei’s once-lost manuscript The Shadow Woman in a Nest of Thieves – now with a forward by Romania’s eminent poet Ruxandra Cesereanu

Andrei will be joined by Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu, Cosmin Ciotloș, Ioana Pârvulescu and Nicolae Tzone. The event will be in available to stream afterwards in Romanian

This event coincides with Vinea Press’s 33rd anniversary. Andrei is honored that his book re-release is on this auspicious occasion. Many thanks to Nicolae Tzone, publisher

Event details here

Andrei holds forth on the ‘revenge of post-pandemic poets’

in Romanian (with asides in English)

link TBD

university info here

Andrei, a favorite son of his hometown – Sibiu, Romania –will receive an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu. Celebratory events in the town square follow

A cradle for poets and writers – including Emeric Pressburger, Emil Cioran, Lucian Blaga and Radu Vancu among others –Sibiu contribution to arts in letters extends far beyond its medieval walls

Andrei is delighted to receive this award and hopes you will join he and his family for the public celebration of his life and work

‘Andrei Codrescu achieved in the American cultural space the equivalent of what Emil Cioran and Eugène Ionesco achieved for the French cultural space’ – Faculty of Arts and Letters

public notice here

New Lines Magazine essay in which Andrei avoids the reductionism of his subject matter

Article published March 17, 2023

Link to New Lines Magazine here; full text here

Academia.edu hosted this 90 minute extemporized talk at and with Chat GPT and all that that has fed it thus far

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Boog City presents its comprehensive avant-poetry extravaganza in the off-season

Lee Ann Brown, Anne Waldman, and Edwin Torres are just a few of the luminaries reading their works – ideal for a winter’s Monday!

Andrei reads at 3:05 and appears again at 4:25 – at which point he’ll regale you with poets on laughter – a must-hear!

details here

venue info here

The Poetry Project and City Lights co-present a New York launch for the essential prose writings of iconic New York School poets. With readings from co-editors Alice Notley, Nick Sturm, Anselm Berrigan, and Edmund Berrigan, as well as Garrett Caples, Johnny Stanton, Kay Gabriel, Greg Masters, Alina Pleskova, Alexis Almeida, Eileen Myles, Andrei Codrescu, and Anne Waldman

Get the Money! was Ted Berrigan’s mantra for the paid writing gigs he took on in support of his career as a poet.

This long-awaited collection of his essential prose draws upon the many essays, reviews, introductions, and other texts