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A Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of John Wieners’s Behind the State Capitol

At St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery

East Village

John Wieners called The Poetry Project his "home away from home." Fifty years after his cult classic Behind the State Capitol was nearly lost to fire, a dozen poets gather to resurrect its raw, unflinching portrait of queer life, addiction, and survival.

Queer literary history
Poetry reading
Downtown culture
Cult classic revival

Tips

📺free livestream on YouTube if you can't make it
⛪Peter Stuyvesant is buried in the courtyard
📖most original copies burned in 1982

St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery

131 E 10th St, New York, NY 10003, USA

+1 212-674-6377

Free

www.poetryproject.org

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