John Wieners Birthday

John Wieners birthday today. Born in Milton Massachusetts in 1934. He would have been 91 – an impossible age – he lives on in eternity

Plenty past John Wieners birthday celebrations on the Allen Ginsberg Project – see, for example,  here  here  and here

and plenty of recent (and upcoming) Wieners activity (most notably the recent republication, in an elegant 50-year anniversary edition, of Behind The State Capitol – see here

The St Marks Poetry Project celebrated the publication at an event this past November:

Forthcoming  – an inspired gathering of Wieners’ prose (to be published later this year by the incomparable Lithic Press,  Artery Editions‘ art edition of Pente (delayed but on its way), and more.   We’ll keep you posted.