{"id":2293,"date":"2012-05-12T06:44:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T21:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/?p=2293"},"modified":"2013-09-30T23:12:54","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T14:12:54","slug":"bill-berkson-in-conversation-with-beat-beyond-san-francisco-art-1950%e2%80%932000-seminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/?p=2293","title":{"rendered":"Bill Berkson in Conversation with &#8220;Beat &#038; Beyond: San Francisco Art 1950\u20132000&#8221; Seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"posterous_autopost\">\n<p>May 2, our very last seminar meeting, we had a pleasure of Bill Berkson&#8217;s company. What a great end to a great semester! Thank you, everyone!<\/p>\n<div class=\"p_embed p_image_embed\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2520\" alt=\"Bill Berkson with Julia Friedman\" src=\"https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Bill_Berkson.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Born in New York in 1939,\u00a0Bill Berkson\u00a0is a poet, critic, teacher and sometime curator, who has been active in the art and literary worlds since his early twenties. Director of Letters and Science at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1993 to 1998, he taught art history, critical writing and poetry and directed the public lectures program there from 1984 to 2007. He studied at Trinity School, The Lawrenceville School, Brown University, Columbia, the New School and New York University&#8217;s Institute of Fine Arts.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 15px;\">He is the author of some twenty books and pamphlets of poetry &#8212; including <em>Gloria<\/em>, a portfolio of poems with etchings by Alex Katz (Arion Press, 2005), <em>Our Friends Will Pass Among You Silently<\/em> (The Owl Press, 2007), <em>Goods and Services<\/em> (Blue Press, 2008), <em>Portrait and Dream: New &amp; Selected Poems<\/em> (Coffee House Press, 2009) and <em>Lady Air<\/em> (Perdika, 2010). His poems have also appeared in many magazines and anthologies. Other recent books are<em> What\u2019s Your Idea of a Good Time: Letters &amp; Interviews 1977-1985<\/em> with Bernadette Mayer (Tuumba Press, 2006); <em>BILL<\/em> with drawings by Colter Jacobsen (Gallery 16 Editions, 2008); <em>Ted Berrigan<\/em> with George Schneeman (Cuneiform Press, 2009); <em>Not an Exit<\/em> with L\u00e9onie Guyer (Jungle Garden Books, 2011); and <em>Repeat after Me<\/em>, with watercolors by John Zurier (Gallery Paule Anglim, 2011).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 2, our very last seminar meeting, we had a pleasure of Bill Berkson&#8217;s company. What a great end to a great semester! Thank you, everyone! Born in New York in 1939,\u00a0Bill Berkson\u00a0is a poet, critic, teacher and sometime curator, who has been active in the art and literary worlds since his early twenties. 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