![[Brainard, Joe. (1941-1994)] "Joe Brainard Reads New Work" - Rare Greene St. Loft Flyer ca 1973](http://www.schubertiademusic.com/cdn/shop/files/Brainard254771.jpg?v=1776364858)
Single sheet flyer announcement for a Brainard reading at 98 Greene St Loft, famous venue in Soho run by Holly Solomon which hosted readings, performances, and art exhibitions during the 1970s. Amusing "flasher" artwork by Brainard featuring the details of the event on a strategically placed card. Dated Thurs. Nov 2 at 9:00 pm. 8.5 x 11 inches; 21.6 x 28 cm. Fine.
From the collection of Frank Bidart, who received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award, and the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry for his book Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016. Perhaps Bidart's most celebrated poem, "The Second Hour of the Night," is partly based on his relationship with Brainard. "The relationship was," as Bidart has said, both "more than friendship and less than a romance." His "In Memory of Joe Brainard" is a profound elegy for his friend who died of AIDS-induced pneumonia in 1994.
Single sheet flyer announcement for a Brainard reading at 98 Greene St Loft, famous venue in Soho run by Holly Solomon which hosted readings, performances, and art exhibitions during the 1970s. Amusing "flasher" artwork by Brainard featuring the details of the event on a strategically placed card. Dated Thurs. Nov 2 at 9:00 pm. 8.5 x 11 inches; 21.6 x 28 cm. Fine.
From the collection of Frank Bidart, who received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award, and the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry for his book Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016. Perhaps Bidart's most celebrated poem, "The Second Hour of the Night," is partly based on his relationship with Brainard. "The relationship was," as Bidart has said, both "more than friendship and less than a romance." His "In Memory of Joe Brainard" is a profound elegy for his friend who died of AIDS-induced pneumonia in 1994.