This event is in the past.It took place on November 17, 2025 at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery.

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

November 17 at 8pm

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

East Village, New York

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

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

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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