Poet Ted Greenwald at Karpeles Manuscript Library

Ted Greenwald, a New York City based poet long associated with "language-centered" writing, will read from his work tonight (Tuesday) at 8 p.m. at the Karpeles Manuscript Museum, 453 Porter Ave. in Buffalo as sponsored by the UB Poetics Program.

Greenwald cofounded the now famous reading series at The Ear Inn on Spring St. near Tribeca in 1978 and his work appeared in Ron Silliman's seminal 1986 anthology In the American Tree.   He is the author of thirty books of poetry and prose, including Lapstrake (1965), Licorice Chronicles (1979), Word of Mouth (1986), and The Up and Up (2004).

His new collection In Your Dreams, consists of 79 poems, each of which is 72 lines long and employs a recombinatory drop-stitch weave in its formal structure.  According to poet-critic Charles Bernstein, the book follows the linguistic model of autopoiesis--a self-generating process and structure the primary naturally-occurring example of which is the organic cell.

In Your Dreams is published by Buffalo-based poet Geoffrey Gatza's BlazeVox Books.

--R.D. Pohl