Featured Readers
Wednesday, April 1 ~ AIP's first ever "beginning-of National-poetry-Month-April-Fool's-Day" Zoom virtual poetry reading!
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Hosted by: Cathy Dana
Featured readers: .Dennis J. Bernstein and Warren Lehrer
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Hosted by: Cathy Dana
Featured readers: .Dennis J. Bernstein and Warren Lehrer
- Dennis J. Bernstein
- Dennis is a poet, investigative journalist and award-winning host/producer of Flashpoints, broadcast daily on KPFA and syndicated by the Pacifica radio network. Recipient of many awards and honors, including Pulse Media’s Top Global Media Figure, Pillar Award in Broadcast Journalism, Artists Embassy International Literary Cultural Award. He founded the Muriel Rukeyser Reading Series in Brooklyn, NY. Books include Special Ed: Voices from a Hidden Classroom, Particles of Light, and three books with Warren Lehrer including French Fries, considered a seminal work of visual literature. Their new collaborative book, Five Oceans in a Teaspoon, is a memoir in short visual poems. Bernstein’s poetry has appeared in New York Quarterly, The Chimaera, The Progressive, Texas Observer, ZYZZYVA, and numerous other journals.
“Special Ed: Voices from a Hidden Classroom is that unusual gift literature can be: We are connected to humanity in ways we might never have even considered or imagined before. Above all it is art turned to us through the eyes of love.”
Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, author of The Color Purple
“Five Oceans in a Teaspoon is an engaging masterwork of poetic visualization that has only a handful of precedents in literary and design history.” Johanna Drucker, Los Angeles Review of Books
Warren Lehrer
Warren Lehrer is a writer/artist known as a pioneer of visual literature and design authorship. Awards include: The Brendan Gill Prize, Innovative Use of Archives Award, International Book Award for Best New Fiction, three AIGA Book Awards, grants and fellowships from the NEA, NYSCA, NYFA, Rockefeller, Ford, and Greenwall Foundations. He is a 2016 Honoree of the Center for Book Arts and a 2019 laureate of the Ladislav Sutnar Prize. His books are in many collections including MoMA, The Getty Museum, and Georges Pompidou Centre. Lehrer is a professor at SUNY Purchase, founding faculty member of SVA’s Designer As Author MFA program, and co-founder of EarSay, a non-profit arts organization in Queens, NY.
“In Warren Lehrer’s books, words take on thought’s very form, bringing sensory experience to the reader as directly as ink on paper can allow… [Once] considered too far ahead of his time… Now the times are beginning to catch up to him.”
Julie Lasky The New York Times Book Review
Warren Lehrer is a writer/artist known as a pioneer of visual literature and design authorship. Awards include: The Brendan Gill Prize, Innovative Use of Archives Award, International Book Award for Best New Fiction, three AIGA Book Awards, grants and fellowships from the NEA, NYSCA, NYFA, Rockefeller, Ford, and Greenwall Foundations. He is a 2016 Honoree of the Center for Book Arts and a 2019 laureate of the Ladislav Sutnar Prize. His books are in many collections including MoMA, The Getty Museum, and Georges Pompidou Centre. Lehrer is a professor at SUNY Purchase, founding faculty member of SVA’s Designer As Author MFA program, and co-founder of EarSay, a non-profit arts organization in Queens, NY.
“In Warren Lehrer’s books, words take on thought’s very form, bringing sensory experience to the reader as directly as ink on paper can allow… [Once] considered too far ahead of his time… Now the times are beginning to catch up to him.”
Julie Lasky The New York Times Book Review