We're excited to start off this new week with a newly posted recording of "From the Floating World: A Memorial Tribute to Jerome Rothenberg," which was held at New York's Milton Resnick - Pat Passloff Foundation on June 24th of this year.
Our own Charles Bernstein served as emcee for the memorial, which started off with a welcome from Alex Paul Chapin and Geoffrey Dorfman. Pierre Joris offered a eulogy and Charlie Morrow said the Kaddish, while Bruce Andrews, Susan Bee, Lee Ann Brown, Steve Clay, Michael Heller, Bob Holman, Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese, Nicole Peyrafitte, and Cecilia Vicuña shared remembrances and read favorite poems from Rothenberg.
Both audio and streaming video of the event, running over one hundred minutes, is available now on PennSound's Jerry Rothenberg author page, were you'll also find well over 350 individual tracks taken from dozens of events spanning more than half a century. These include readings, interviews, panel discussions and talks, albums, performances, podcasts, films, and more. and don't forget about our Rothenberg holdings at Jacket2, where we were honored to host Jerry's commentary series, "Poems and Poetics," since our launch, and our Reissues section archives complete runs of the groundbreaking journals Alcheringa (1970–1980, co-edited with Dennis Tedlock) and New Wilderness Letter (1977–1984).
