Donna Dennis
Donna Dennis: initially part of the architectural sculpture movement of the early 1970s, is known for her complex sculptural installations with sound, seen at the Brooklyn Museum, the Walker Art Center, the Whitney Museum, among others. In 2018 Ship and Dock / Nights and Days or The Gazer, incorporating video into a sculptural installation was seen at Lesley Heller Gallery, New York. She has collaborated with poets Anne Waldman, Kenward Elmslie, Daniel Wolff, and Ted Berrigan and with performance artist /puppeteer Dan Hurlin.
Trevor Winkfield
Trevor Winkfield: lives in Manhattan, where his paintings are exhibited at Tibor de Nagy. He recently published En Face, a collaboration with the poet Charles North (MAB Books).
Aram Saroyan
Aram Saroyan: Complete Minimal Poems received the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. In recent years his main activity has been art and his work can be seen on Instagram at saroyanesque.
Hymn to the Lower East Side
by Ed Sanders
Some Glyphs from The History of Peace Eye
This selection of nine comes from a 221–glyph manuscript,
“History of Peace Eye.”
Hymn to the Lower East Side
in the 1960s
Hail to Miriam Sanders and Deborah Beckham
in Tompkins Square Park in the summer
Come Alive Come Alive
in the Olive Trees of Time
o splashing children
in the Tompkins Park fountains of 1966!
Hail to the Rent Controls in NYC
which didn’t happen by accident!
There was a ceaseless effort in the Depression ’30s
to organize on the issue of evictions & fair rents
A city-wide tenants council in NYC was formed in 1936
It worked and worked
and helped pass a “limited” rent-control law in ’39
During WWII a group called the United Tenants League formed
whose work helped lead to the Office of Price Administration
which set up wartime rent controls in NYC
(which stayed in place fro decades after
the war
and helped make possible the