Lewis Warsh collection of twentieth-century poetry ephemera

American poet Lewis Warsh (born 1944) was a central figure in the second generation of the New York School of poets. He joined a circle of writers associated with the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church and established a poetry career that bridged the experimental writing movements on the East and West coasts.

Warsh was born November 9, 1944, in the Bronx, New York, and attended City College of New York. His first published poems appeared in Wild Dog magazine in 1965. The following year, Warsh and fellow poet Anne Waldman (born 1945) co-founded the small press Angel Hair. Warsh found himself involved in the burgeoning arts scene at the Poetry Project, which included Ted Berrigan (1934-1983), George Schneeman (1934-2009), and Bernadette Mayer (born 1945). Warsh and Mayer married in 1975 and in 1977, established United Artists Books and co-edited United Artists Magazine between 1977 and 1983.

Warsh has written over twenty books of poetry, including Dreaming as One (1971), Blue Heaven (1978), and Information from the Surface of Venus (1987). In addition to poetry, he authored autobiographical works and fiction, such as Agnes & Sally (1984) and A Place in the Sun (2010). With Anne Waldman, Warsh co-edited an anthology of the Angel Hair Magazine , titled Angel Hair Sleeps with a Boy in My Head: The Angel Hair Anthology (2002). He has taught English at Long Island University since 2000, and directed the MFA program in creative writing from 2007 until 2013.

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