Preface

Jim Dunn

Kevin Gallagher

This segment of Jim Dunn and Kevin Gallagher’s feature “Mass: Raw Poetry from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts” focuses on poet John Wieners, and includes contributions from Dunn, Seth Stewart, Ruth Lepson, John Landry, Steve Prygoda, Lewis Hammond Stone, and Wieners himself.

The old brick city by the Atlantic Jim Dunn

'The most beautiful and truest' Seth Stewart

'Nor … ever some place else': Wieners in Boston Ruth Lepson

After hearing Fanny Howe and John Wieners Ruth Lepson

Poem beginning with a line from the pen of John Joseph Wieners John Landry

John Wieners in 'Tenzone' Steve Prygoda

December 24, 2012

About this feature

This section of Jim Dunn and Kevin Gallagher's feature on poetry of Massachusetts, “Mass: Raw Poetry from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,” focuses on the influence of John Wieners.

Preface

The old brick city by the Atlantic Jim Dunn

'The most beautiful and truest' Seth Stewart

'Nor … ever some place else': Wieners in Boston Ruth Lepson

After hearing Fanny Howe and John Wieners Ruth Lepson

Poem beginning with a line from the pen of John Joseph Wieners John Landry

John Wieners in 'Tenzone' Steve Prygoda

John Wieners on PennSound

Wieners’ poem, “The Acts of Youth,” was the subject of PoemTalk podcast #43, featuring Al Filreis, Ammiel Alcalay, Gary Barwin, and Danny Snelson. You can listen to that program on PennSound's John Wieners author page, alongside a wide variety of audio and video recordings from his 1965 appearance at the Berkeley Poetry Conference through to his 1999 appearance at New York’s Guggenheim Museum.

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Preface

John Wieners on PennSound

Edited by
Jim Dunn
Kevin Gallagher