Joe brainerd kenward elmslie biography
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Elmslie/Brainard
Following on from yesterday’s posting on the passing of the legendary “New York School” poet, Kenward Elmslie, we thought to gratuitously follow up with a few images of collaborations (there are many) with his long-time friend and lover – (and all-around genius), Joe Brainard (1942-1994)
starting with their first collaboration (from 1965) The Baby Book
and here’s Kenward’s fond scruffy portrait of Joe, courtesy Granary Books
Connie Lewellyn on Joe and collaboration
Joe Brainard – An Artist to Remember
Joe Brainard – A Writer to Remember
Joe Brainard – A Man to Remember
Kenward Elmslie – A Man to Remember too.
Joe Brainard and Kenward Elmslie – (from the cover of Pay Dirt (1992), a retrospective of comics created over a 25-year span bygd the two of them
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Kenward Elmslie
American poet (1929–2022)
Kenward Gray Elmslie (April 27, 1929 – June 29, 2022) was an American author, performer, editor and publisher associated with the New York School of poetry.
Life and career
[edit]Kenward Gray Elmslie was born to William Gray Elmslie and Constance Pulitzer in Manhattan on April 27, 1929.[1] His father was a tutor who met his mother, the youngest child of Joseph Pulitzer, while working as a tutor for her siblings.[1] He spent his childhood in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Washington, D.C.[1] He attended St. Mark's School in Southborough, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard in 1950 with a B.A. in literature. He relocated to Cleveland to work as an intern at Karamu House, where there was an interracial theatre group. There he met lyricist John Latouche (1914-1956). At Latouche's invitation, Elmslie relocated back to New York in 1952 to live with him. In 1953 the couple bought a farmhouse in Calais
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Joe Brainard
American poet
Joe Brainard (March 11, 1942 – May 25, 1994) was an American artist and writer associated with the New York School. His prodigious and innovative body of work included assemblages, collages, drawing, and painting, as well as designs for book and album covers, theatrical sets and costumes. In particular, Brainard broke new ground in using comics as a poetic medium in his collaborations with other New York School poets. He is best known for his memoir I Remember, of which Paul Auster said: "It is ... one of the few totally original books I have ever read."[1]
Life
[edit]Joe Brainard was born on March 11, 1942, in Salem, Arkansas, spent his childhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and moved to New York City in 1960.[2] He is the brother of painter John Brainard.[3]
Brainard became friends with Ron Padgett, Dick Gallup, and Ted Berrigan during high school while working on the literary journal The White Dove Review, which was p