![[Brainard, Joe. (1941-1994) & Smith, Patti. (b. 1946)] "Patti Smith & Joe Brainard: St. Mark's Church Wednesday May 15th"](http://www.schubertiademusic.com/cdn/shop/files/Brainard254711.jpg?v=1776365924)
Single sheet flyer printed on the recto only, announcing the poetry reading by Smith and Brainard at The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church on May 15th, 1974 with an illustration of two white gloves on a black background. A reading from the same year that Smith's first single debuted. 8.5 x 11 inches. 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 printed on the recto only, announcing the poetry reading by Smith and Brainard at The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church on May 15th, 1974 with an illustration of two white gloves on a black background. A reading from the same year that Smith's first single debuted. 8.5 x 11 inches. 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.