When James Schuyler gave his first ever poetry reading, it was at DIA's SoHo headquarters -- on Mercer Street, if memory serves -- and there was a long line snaking around the block, and I remember seeing Henri Cole, and Douglas Crasew, and Jonathan Galassi, and a whole lot of other people, and John Ashbery introduced Jimmy by saying "he makes sense, damn it" and getting a loud laugh for some reason when he said "this is not the time and placer to discuss" something or other.
With thanks to Andrew Epstein, and acknowledgment of his splendid "Locus Solus," New Yor School-centric blog, we can post this rare video of that reading of November 15, 2018 -- thirty years ago today. -- DL
https://newyorkschoolpoets.wordpress.com/2015/11/30/new-video-of-james-schuylers-legendary-debut-reading-in-1988
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