James Kalm sojourns to St. Marks Church, the epicenter of New York’s poetry world to record this celebration of the publication of Hannah Weiner’s “Open House”. Weiner (1928-1997) operated in a unique nexus of the artistic and poetic communities, she was an influential participant in the nescient performance art and L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E poetry movements. Featured in Part 1 are readings by Patrick Durgin, publisher of “Open House”, Laura Elrick, Rodrigo Toscano and Kaplan Harris.
James Kalm is a working artist living in Brooklyn New York. He has been an active critic for over twelve years writing for the controversial Brooklyn Rail http://brooklynrail.org/. For more high resolution videos, writings by James Kalm and views of the paintings of Loren Munk visit http://www.lorenmunk.com/.To support the Kalm Report with a donation go to https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=2665446
