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    Bernadette Mayer

    Called “a consummate poet” by Robert Creeley, Bernadette Mayer was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1945. A most prolific poet, her first book was published at the age of twenty-three. Many texts later she continues to write progressive poetry from her home in East Nassau, New York. For many years Mayer lived and worked on the Lower East Side of Manhattan where she was the Director of St. Mark’s Poetry Project from 1980-1984. Bernadette Mayer has received grants and awards from PEN American Center, The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art, the NEA, The Academy of American Poets, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters.

    Bernadette Mayer

    Called “a consummate poet” by Robert Creeley, Bernadette Mayer was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1945. A most prolific poet, her first book was published at the age of twenty-three. Many texts later she continues to write progressive poetry from her home in East Nassau, New York. For many years Mayer lived and worked on the Lower East Side of Manhattan where she was the Director of St. Mark’s Poetry Project from 1980-1984. Bernadette Mayer has received grants and awards from PEN American Center, The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art, the NEA, The Academy of American Poets, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters.

    Books by Bernadette Mayer

    • Works and Days

      Bernadette Mayer

      Paperback, 2016

      A brand spanking new collection, Works and Days is classic Bernadette Mayer: fresh, learned, exciting, and endlessly surprising

    • Milkweed Smithereens

      Bernadette Mayer

      Paperback, 2022

      A career-spanning bouquet of poems by the peerless and inimitable Bernadette Mayer

    • Milkweed Smithereens

      Bernadette Mayer

      E Book, 2022

      A career-spanning bouquet of poems by the peerless and inimitable Bernadette Mayer

    • The Golden Book of Words

      Bernadette Mayer

      Paperback, 2025

      Here at last is a new edition of a famous early work by Bernadette Mayer, one of the most beloved, radical, and witty American poets

    • The Golden Book of Words

      Bernadette Mayer

      E Book

      Here at last is a new edition of a famous early work by Bernadette Mayer, one of the most beloved, radical, and witty American poets

    • Poetry Pamphlets 1-4

      New Directions, Lydia Davis, Eliot Weinberger, Susan Howe, Bernadette Mayer, Sylvia Legris

      Paperback, 2023

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