Peter Valente: “Notes on John Wieners’ ‘A Poem for Painters'” (Selected Poems 1958-1984), written after reading Bill Berkson’s Sudden Address

Notes on John Wieners’ “A Poem for Painters” In “A Poem for Painters,” John Wieners writes: Paul Klee scratched for … More

“Back in the USSR”: Leonard Kress Reviews Bill Berkson’s Russian Notebook Invisible Oligarchs

Bill Berkson, who died in June 2016, was one of the last survivors of the original New York School that … More