Two formidable birthday boys today – photographer-filmmaker Robert Frank (1924-2019) and the poet James Schuyler (1923-1991)
Robert Frank, Allen’s long-time compadre, has been featured on this site many times before, most notably last year on his Centennial – see here
Less so James Schuyler (tho’ he was featured on his Centennial too – see here
and more recently to celebrate A Day Like Any Other, Nathan Kernan‘s long-awaited biography.
Here‘s Schuyler reading in November 1989 at New York’s 92nd Street Y
and here‘s Kernan & others in one of several launches for the biography – reading, reminiscing and reflecting.
Kernan is interviewed about his biography – here
A choice selection (his account of Schuyler’s much-belated first public poetry reading) is available – here