Poetry Reading and Conversation: Nathan Kernan and Vincent Katz
$10 Members, $12 Public
Join author Nathan Kernan and poet Vincent Katz for a poetry reading and a conversation on poetry, art, and creative life, presented with the Maine Publishers and Writers Alliance.
Centered on Kernan’s A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler, this program explores the work and world of the New York School poet, whose writing found beauty in the ordinary. The discussion situates Schuyler within the vibrant, overlapping communities of mid-century New York poets and painters, illuminating the enduring dialogue between visual art and poetry.
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Vincent Katz is a poet, translator, and critic. He is the author of the poetry collections Daffodil (Alfred A. Knopf, 2025) and Broadway for Paul (Knopf, 2020), among others. His translations of The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius (Princeton University Press, 2004), won the 2005 National Translation Award from the American Literary Translators Association. Katz is the editor of Black Mountain College: Experiment in Art (MIT Press, 2002), and he curated an exhibition on Black Mountain for the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. His most recent book is Accounts, a collaboration with painter Richard Bosman. He is currently working on a memoir about Edwin Denby, Rudy Burckhardt and Yvonne Jacquette and the circles of artists they knew and collaborated with. His writing on contemporary art and poetry has been published widely. He lives in New York City.
Nathan Kernan is a writer who lives in New York and in Salisbury CT. He edited James Schuyler’s Diary which was published by Black Sparrow Press in 1997, and has published numerous art reviews, catalogue essays and monographs, as well as poetry. Poems, his collaboration with painter Joan Mitchell, was published by Tyler Graphics in 1992. A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler, published in 2025 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, is his first biography. Kernan is also a co-founder and board president of the Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation, an exhibition space for painting in lower Manhattan.
