Friday the 13th last was a great night for poetry in Toronto at This Ain’t The Rosedale Library, starring David Meltzer, Terri Carrion, Michael Rothenberg, Jim Christy, and good friend, Robert Priest.
David Meltzer, (above) was “one of the key poets of the Beat generation. Meltzer is a jazz guitarist, a Cabalist scholar and author of more than 50 books of poetry and prose. 2005 saw the publication of David's Copy: The Selected Poems of David Meltzer (edited by Michael Rothenberg, with an introduction by Jerome Rothenberg) which provides a current overview of Meltzer's work. Meltzer's Beat Thing (La Alameda Press) is his epic poem on the Beat generation. IMeltzer's other books include No Eyes, poems on Lester Young, and a book of interviews, San Francisco Beat: Talking with the Poets (City Lights Books). Meltzer teaches at the New College of California in the Poetics Program which was originally founded by Robert Duncan. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.”
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