[New-Poetry] Bernadette Mayer

[Skip Fox]

I think she left NYC for good several years back and bought a house upstate
with the proceeds of selling her papers to San Diego. She teaches classes at
here house, I think, when she can get students. 

 

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[mailto:new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Suzanne Burns
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 8:44 AM
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Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Bernadette Mayer

 

To the best of my knowledge, she has been teaching workshops at St Mark's,
as well as writing and editing. 

I think I heard also that she was teaching a workshop out of her home in
NYC.  But I haven't heard anything about her teaching at a university-- nor
did I know that financial worries were an issue.  I hope I misunderstood the
original post. 

It is true though that "deserving, recognized, and influential" does not
necessarily lead to "rewarded".  That's just life I guess. :-(


Suzanne





On 8/8/07, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net> wrote:

Many of us find a new one weekly. It's a great time to be alive as a writer.
I don't mind the silence, but I would like to see Bernadette Mayer hired by
a good university. (Of course, there is a down side for very deserving
writers who have to endure financial worries for decades. Before them I am
silent.)



Not to go way off topic, but I have  thought the same thing about Mayer--
i.e., why she isn't on the faculty of a really top notch University and
paid very, very well.   She is after all not only an extraordinarily
accomplished poet, she also has that rep for being a particularly gifted
teacher.  *sigh* 

Suzanne Burns


I thought she had clout as a first generation language poet.  That should
get her into a lot of universities.  Did she offend someone in language
poetry?

 

--Bob


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